Chapter 64 Chapter 64. Zephyr Pushes Her to Edge
“Zoria, you’ll regret this.” Zephyr let out a hoarse laugh, his voice as cold as the night wind.
“The thing I regret most in my life is ever bonding with you!” Zoria shouted, her body shaking.
Zephyr took a step forward. Zoria immediately stepped back, yanking the IV needle from her arm and pressing it straight against the artery in her neck.
“Don’t you dare come any closer!”
She was so weak now that death was the only weapon she had left against an Alpha. Zephyr stopped short, narrowing his eyes at the needle in her hand.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“If you dare lay a hand on me, I’ll die right in front of you.”
The air between them felt suffocating. Zoria knew Zephyr was afraid she might die. He wasn’t done playing with her yet. He still wanted to bind her, force her to bear offspring for his pack.
“Zephyr, in half a month we’ll be going to the Lycan Court to sever the bond. Until then, I don’t want to see your face.” Zoria stared at him with naked hatred. “I’ve said it already—either we cut the bond, or you watch me die. When I say something, I mean it.”
When the needle pressed closer to her neck, Zephyr’s heart lurched. His gaze flickered away for a split second.
“Don’t forget, this is a hospital. Even if you kill yourself, I can still drag you back to life.”
Zoria bit her lip, her voice icy. “Save me once, and I’ll die one more time.”
Doctors could save the injured, but they couldn’t save someone who truly wanted to die.
Zephyr hesitated for a long time. In the end, he didn’t step any closer. “Zoria, you’re damn fearless.”
Zoria gave a detached, mocking smile. “My heart is already dead. What’s left for me to be afraid of?”
That single sentence choked Zephyr again. He didn’t explode in anger. He only looked at Zoria as if she were prey that had suddenly changed. The rabbit had turned into a feral cat—claws, fangs, the whole lot. If it wasn’t tamed again, sooner or later it would tear into its Alpha.
“Fine.” Zephyr curled his lips. “Half a month from now, we’ll meet in court. I believe by then you’ll come back to me obediently.”
Zoria’s face stiffened. The hand holding the syringe trembled slightly, but her eyes still glared at him, stubborn and unyielding.
Zephyr turned around and let out a quiet, humorless laugh. Before stepping out the door, he said coldly, “Zoria, remember what I once told you.”
Only after Zephyr left did Zoria truly relax. The needle mark on the back of her hand kept bleeding. She pulled out a tissue and pressed it down, waiting for the blood to clot. Unbidden, Zephyr’s words echoed in her mind.
He had said that if she failed to sever the bond, he would tie her to the bed and force her to give him countless offspring.
A chill ran down Zoria’s spine. She had more than enough evidence to persuade the judge to approve a unilateral bond severance, so why was she still afraid?
……
The assistant caught up to Zephyr and asked, “Boss, how do you plan to deal with Ms. Zoria?”
Zephyr replied in a low voice, “Have males keep watch on her. Every move she makes gets reported to me. And go investigate what Valor Pack has been up to lately—especially dig into Zoria’s mother.”
He didn’t believe Zoria truly didn’t care about anything. If her mother knelt down and begged her to keep living with him, what choice would she make then?
A feral cat that dared to harbor crooked thoughts needed to be properly tamed again.
Zoria had fallen from the car. The injuries looked serious, but they were only scrapes and bruises—no fracture to her lower leg, no head trauma.
Her ankle was still slightly dislocated, but she insisted on being discharged immediately.
Zephyr’s subordinates were still stationed outside. When Zoria stepped out of the ward, she had assumed they would block her. To her surprise, they didn’t stop her at all—just followed silently behind. No matter how she tried, she couldn’t shake them off.
Zoria went to a public phone and called Evander, arranging to meet him at the café right outside the hospital gate.
She sat in a crowded corner and waited nearly half an hour before Evander arrived, bringing an advocate with him.
Seeing Zoria leaning on crutches and noticing the wound on her forehead, Evander felt his heart ache sharply.
“Evander, I’m sorry,” Zoria said, apologizing for how she hadn’t intervened when Zephyr’s bodyguards beat him a few days earlier.
Evander’s voice was hoarse. “Why are you apologizing to me? It has nothing to do with you.” He looked at her heavily. “What I want to know is—did Zephyr bully you again?”
Zoria shook her head. “I just fell from the car. The injuries aren’t serious.”
Evander didn’t press further. He simply introduced the advocate beside him.
The advocate briefly discussed the bond severance case with Zoria, then summed it up with a single word: difficult.
In typical bond severance cases, if one party was determined to end it, citing incompatibility in married life was usually enough for a judge to consider approval.
Zoria frowned. “Then why do you say it’s difficult?”
The advocate answered bluntly, “Because your mate is Zephyr Hawthorne.”
"He abused me and cheated on me! Aren’t those two reasons enough for me to unilaterally sever the bond with him?"
"You can’t rely on one-sided claims alone. Without evidence, it’ll be very difficult."
Zoria frowned, her thoughts growing restless. She was sure Zephyr had already anticipated all of this. The injury report from the hospital had long since been destroyed, and she had never been able to access the surveillance footage from the villa.
As for Zephyr’s affair—what exactly did he feel for Faye? Zoria truly couldn’t see through it. If he genuinely loved Faye, then why hadn’t he given her the rightful status of a true luna?
Then Evander brought her even worse news: Zephyr had most likely bribed the Lycan judge.
Zoria’s face darkened, unease tightening in her chest. Still, she had prepared herself for the worst long ago. She had already endured so much—so what if she failed?
"Advocate, if I insist on unilaterally severing the bond, even if I fail and crash headfirst into death right there in the courtroom, would that be allowed?"