Married a Secret Billionaire novel Chapter 474

Those few days, Cordelia kept Zephyr at arm’s length and was lukewarm to him. She also took a work leave from Imperial Media and went home to take care of Xyla.

After Xyla heard about the reason for their fight, she laughed so hard that she nearly poured the whole bottle of water into her succulents.

“That’s it?” She poked Cordelia’s head and whined. “You’re growing more insensible the older you get!”

“Mom…” Cordelia rubbed her head.

As she calmed down, she also thought she was a little oversensitive this time. It was just that women seemed to have the most accurate sixth sense, and she felt that Zephyr was unlike how he always was that night. His words seemed to imply something else.

“Zephyr’s just expressing his thoughts. Do you have to think so much into it?”

“But he mentioned my father…” Cordelia swallowed the rest of her words studying Xyla’s expression.

Xyla looked nonchalant, but there was an almost unnoticeable quiver in her hands that were watering the plants.

She looked at Cordelia affectionately. “Silly girl, Zephyr’s, unlike your father.”

This was Cordelia’s first time hearing her mother bring up her father on her own initiative. She was also immensely curious about him.

She probed carefully, unable to suppress her curiosity, “Mom, back when dad abandoned us… did he really have some kind of difficulty he could not help?”

After a moment, Xyla forced a smile and said, “Yeah.” Her expression had dimmed a little.

“Do you hate him?”

“Hate?” Xyla was surprised but shook her head with a smile.

She had probably never hated Rowan. When she found out that he was just using her to take revenge on the Irwins, she was sad and devastated but never hateful. Hatred solved nothing—it would only push someone into an abyss repeatedly.

“Cordelia, can you promise me one thing?”

“What?”

Xyla’s gaze was gentle as she told her softly, “If you see him in the future, don’t hate him.”

Robert drove as he peeked at his boss’ expression from the rearview mirror from time to time. The latter’s glower was rather frightening, much more than the few times he had interrupted his good times!

When Robert accidentally caught Zephyr looking his way, he straightened up immediately and switched between the brake and accelerator incredibly smoothly without any hint of a bump.

“S-Sir…” Robert tried calling him.

“Speak!” Zephyr sounded impatient.

Robert licked his lips and tried to sound less shaky. “Uh, Madam Baker called back.”

“Cordelia went to work today?”

“No, Madam Baker said that… Ms. Cordelia took her annual leave.”

Zephyr almost flipped the car roof off. “Why did she allow it!? Hasn’t she always been annoyed by her employees asking her to sign their annual leave applications? Doesn’t she scold them over it all the time!?”