Zacharias crossed his arms over his chest, silently amused at her outrage, but otherwise unmoving even as she crowded into his space. "I don't need to explain my reasoning to you." He didn't think so - not when he still somewhat believed that foul play on her part was somehow involved.
"And it does work like that. In fact it works exactly like that. Consider this the better alternative to sending you away for the next nine months so you can have the child outside of the public eye." That sort of thing wasn't unheard of, and while he wouldn't actually consider it himself, it didn't mean that it wasn't a possibility.