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Maelis said, “Zinnia, I never should have taken you back! Look how you’ve ruined our family!” She stormed toward Zinnia, raising her hand to strike.

“Mom!” the three Shaw brothers gasped in unison.

However, Zinnia intercepted Maelis’s hand and shoved her back hard. Last time, Zinnia had been caught off guard by Maelis’s cruelty and nearly got hit.

But now, seeing that ferocious look on Maelis’s face, Zinnia was determined not to let Maelis lay a hand on her.

Zinnia thought, ‘My Master never laid a hand on me growing up. What right does this outsider have to hit me?‘

Maelis stumbled back two steps, nearly falling before Howard caught her. Her bloodshot eyes glared at Zinnia with resentment. She never expected Zinnia would dare fight back.

Yosef frowned at Zinnia and said, “Zinnia, even if Mom was out of line, you shouldn’t have pushed her like that. She’s getting on in years. What if Howard hadn’t caught her? What if she’d fallen?”

Zinnia shot Yosef a cold glance, her clear eyes flashing with defiance. She snapped, “Should I just stand there and take the hit? It’s easy for you to talk when you’re not the one getting slapped.”

Yosef was left speechless. He never expected Zinnia to speak to him with such blunt disrespect.

Zinnia took two deliberate steps back, putting clear distance between herself and the rest of them.

Maelis steadied herself, her bloodshot eyes burning with anger. Her voice was razor–sharp with fury as she asked, “Zinnia, do you still want me as your mother or not?”

“No, I don’t,” Zinnia shot back without hesitation.

a trembling finger at Zinnia. It was clear that Zinnia had

and resentment toward Zinnia. She thought, ‘Why didn’t she speak

fault, we wouldn’t have misunderstood her

imagined Betty, the girl she’d always believed to be pure–hearted, could harbor such venom or be capable of such

understanding toward her as a mother, Maelis still simmered with anger. This visit, while she did feel some guilt toward Zinnia, was

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the Carsons into this mess. Even though the Carsons aren’t pursuing it anymore,

go to school. Donald berates me for being useless, and even my three sons have started siding with Zinnia

used to be. My whole family life has been turned upside down. Why did I

stabbed like a knife into the hearts of the three Shaw brothers. Seeing Zinnia turn

them!” Zinnia shouted as she

her shout, the security guards who had been monitoring the situation from the booth sprang into action.

here today to apologize to Zinnia? I get that you’re upset about what happened with Betty,

yesterday after just five days in the detention center, looking visibly thinner. Seeing her like

about Betty, they felt

disillusioned. No matter how tearfully Betty apologized or how much she insisted it wasn’t intentional, Howard could never see her the same way

Betty now struck like a cruel boomerang,

willing to play with human lives. As her brother, I probably don’t hold an ounce of

was to

It’s all Betty’s fault. We’re the ones who

inside, ‘Mom spoiled Betty rotten. I’d already warned Betty not to cause any more trouble, but within a day, she made such a huge mess, completely ignoring my

caused, Mom still blamed Zinnia.

and I decided to join him. Just as we were about

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