It felt like there was a loud explosion in Cordelia’s heart.

Zephyr’s extended hand paused in the air before he slowly pulled it back.

“I’ve lied to you,” he said. “I’ve also caused you harm.”

Cordelia screwed her eyes shut and cried.

She finally understood why he seemed to have an extraordinary aura, why every difficulty she met would always be resolved, why he never cared about money, why he seemed fearless…

He was the heir of the Hamertons. The whole world was under his feet. What was there for him to be scared of?

Cordelia chuckled wryly. She had called him silly in the past, but she was actually the silly one who had been tricked!

“Cordelia—”

“Please leave.”

Cordelia hid under the covers. Her weak voice came from the small gap.

could only see her disheveled hair and her quivering body. He wanted to pat her back and keep her in his embrace

left the ward and sat on the chair

rented place

mind, so she asked gently,

her and shook her head. She had troubled Linda these days. Moreover, no one other than herself could push her over this

changed into her slippers, she saw Zephyr’s leather shoes in the

at home

the balcony, clothes he changed out of in the bathroom’s laundry basket, and loungewear he usually wore draped on the back of the

leaned against each other on the rack above the

pinch on her nose, and her eyes grew

what she had changed not too long ago. They had

love and happiness. She just did not know that

house. Everything stayed the same, yet everything

held her by the shoulders. “Go have some rest. What do you want for dinner? I’ll go buy

with her eyes lowered and said

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