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Alexander hesitated before softly saying, “If you like Neil, I’ll ask him to meet you.”
Victoria paused and smirked.
Her younger brother was soft-hearted. He would consider their familial bond as long as she talked nicely to him.
Therefore, if someone were to stab Alexander in the heart one day, he would never suspect that the person who
handed over the knife was Victoria.
Victoria replied with a smile, “Thank you. But I think the rules of the royal family are important. Our marriages have
never been ours to decide. If the Harrises don’t have the intention, it’ll be useless for me to keep up on my end!
“Alright, I’m tired after all this chatting. I don’t want to think about it for now.”
Alexander nodded and watched his sister leave. The furrow of his brows remained even after Victoria was no
longer seen in the night.
She would not give up so easily based on his understanding of her.
Cordelia had already offended her, but not only was Cordelia the heiress of the Irwins, but she was also the apple of
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtZephyr’s eyes…
Alexander’s expression dimmed as a wash of determination flashed in his eyes.
“Don’t worry,” he mumbled to himself. “I won’t let you get hurt as long as I’m around.”
…
Cordelia went to the sanatorium early in the morning to keep Xyla company. Evening crept up on them
unknowingly.
“I’m here, and you aren’t even needed, actually!” Rowan kept chasing her home. “Look, your mom’s doing so much
better now and is recovering super well as she takes her medication punctually every day!
“You’re already out for the whole day. Won’t my grandson be looking for you?”
“It’s fine,” Cordelia answered with a chuckle. “The nanny and others are at home. We also have breast milk
prepared in the fridge. He won’t go hungry.”
“That doesn’t cut it!” Rowan put on a straight face. “Cordelia, no matter what you do now, you must first think
you’re a mother!”
Cordelia paused and felt her eyes burn.
She was a mother but was also her mother’s daughter. She felt guilty for spending too little time with her mother in
the past and also not being able to do it now that she had a baby.
She turned to look at her mother in the hospital ward.
Xyla was painting. Fireflies were still the subject. Her strokes were fluid, and her choice of color was bold. The
structure of her drawing was also interesting. A few strokes were all it took to paint a colorful and captivating world.
The paint she needed finished then, and she called out like a child, “Rowan Irwin!”
“Ah, coming!” Rowan hurried over.
“How many times have I told you! The white paint is the rarest, the white one! And you wouldn’t prepare any for
me, would you?”
“I would never. Look, what’s this?”
Rowan pulled out a big box of neatly lined white paint from under the bed with a grin. He retrieved a tube and
squeezed it on the palette for her.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Good?” He rubbed Xyla’s head fondly. “Inspired again?”
Xyla rolled her eyes coyly, but the smile on her face could not be hidden.
“Old woman, you draw so beautifully!”
“Who are you calling an old woman?”
“Well… old princess, okay?”
Xyla knocked his head with her paintbrush.
The old man and woman giggled in unison, making Cordelia envious.
It seemed that she did not have to worry about her mother.
Xyla and Irwin both urged her to go home to care for her child earlier, so she could only return sooner.
However, when she arrived home, she saw the doors open, and the caretakers were nowhere to be found.
Cordelia’s heart lurched, and she ran upstairs subconsciously.
The door to the baby’s room was also opened! There seemed to be someone sitting beside the cradle watching
Zuko intently, but the back did not belong to Zephyr!
In that instant, news about outlaws and human traffickers selling babies flooded Cordelia’s mind… She was stunned.
Out of reckless bravery, she snuck into the room with bated breath.
She first pressed the alarm system on the wall to call for help. Upon confirming that there was some distance
between that person and Zuko, she grabbed her purse in her hands to hurl it toward the person’s head!
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