Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

"Hi, Landon. Hi, Uncle Preston."

Zoe stopped right in front of them. A sweet smile came across her face. She was pretending to be nice.

"Oh, hey, Zoe! Are you feeling better?" Preston asked, pretending to be concerned.

"I'm much better. Thanks for asking, Uncle Preston."

"That's good to hear. You're a precious one in the Harper family. Your Grandpa and mother would be sad if anything bad happened to you!" Preston uttered these words for Landon to hear.

Following that, he shot Zoe a look before walking away while humming a tune.

"What are you doing here?" Landon glared at her frigidly.

"I made some chicken soup for Grandpa, so I'm bringing it to him while it's still hot."

Zoe blinked. She had an innocent look in her eyes. "Landon, you're not going to stop me from being nice to Grandpa, are you?"

narrowed as he raised his hand, pointing dominantly at

he hadn't said a word, Zoe's heart started racing out

funny. Otherwise, I will rip off that dishonest tongue of yours and break your damn legs. You can

Landon bumped her out of the way and left with

him from behind. It was as if he was unshakable. Through gritted

that, she wiped off the gloomy expression from her face and put on a lovely smile

to see

gaze in Cornelius' eyes vanished temporarily at the sight of Zoe. He gave

soup. I made it especially for you, Grandpa.

served up a bowl of soup to Cornelius. "This soup is best eaten when you're in a bad mood. It nourishes your body and helps soothe your heart.

was in a bad mood, Zoe?" Cornelius put a spoonful of soup into his mouth. Just like Zoe said, it

to see you. I also noticed that you looked like you had a lot on your mind when I walked in. There's

perfunctorily. "It seems like they have

This is

but that lady from the Beckett family has him wrapped around