Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

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The faint scent of mint lingered around her nose, making Zinnia’s eyes sting with tears. “Yannis…” she whispered.

“Zinnia!” Maelis gasped in pain as she struggled to sit up. When she saw the bloody scratches on her arm, her anger flared up and her voice became shrill.

Even though it was Yannis who had thrown her aside, she only dared to scream hoarsely at Zinnia. Deep down, she knew Zinnia was the only one she could lash out at, so she blamed everything on her.

Maelis’s cutting words pierced her heart, causing Zinnia’s chest to constrict. She clenched her teeth hard and swallowed the pain.

She shoved Yannis aside, revealing her slender frame. Her clear eyes burned with fury. “You hit me first; why shouldn’t I hit you back?”

Zinnia stood tall, her delicate frame showing no hint of fear. Her gaze was cold and detached as she looked at Maelis, who had fallen to the ground, eyes full of hatred and resentment.

A faint, mocking smile tugged at her lips. This woman, her so–called mother, truly hated her to the bone.

“Maelis, what are you doing?” Howard and Timothy rushed over and helped Maelis up from the ground.

Maelis didn’t respond to him. Her eyes were wild, filled with twisted hatred as she glared at Zinnia as if she could tear her apart piece by piece. “I’m your mother. Hitting you is my right. Who dares say otherwise?”

“Is it your right, Mrs. Shaw? And then isn’t it also my right to bankrupt the Shaw family?” Yannis’s eyes darkened menacingly, a cold, sharp smile playing on his lips.

“How dare you!” Maelis’s face twisted in fury, her lips trembling uncontrollably.

“Mom, stop it,” Timothy and Yosef said in unison.

Yannis’s gaze turned glacial. “Who says I wouldn’t dare?”

rage twisting her features. Her eyes burned red as she stared at Yannis with venom.

curses welled up in her throat. She knew Yannis wasn’t bluffing. True to her bullying nature, Maelis only targeted the weak and always backed down in the face of

daughter. Just because you claim to be her mother, you think

poised and radiant, every step brimming with power. She looked down at Maelis, who

to her? Did you raise her? And yet you dare

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Yvette with a distorted and venomous look. Her pent–up rage was boiling over, and her sharp eyes seemed as if they could skin Yvette alive. Any trace of her former elegance had disappeared; now Maelis looked every inch

“Shameless? Not half as shameless as you. Acting like you ever raised Zinnia. The only one you raised is that ungrateful brat Betty, and now you keep hounding Zinnia like it’s

ice–cold. “Don’t you ever dare use that so–called biological debt to control Zinnia. When she was born, your family’s negligence almost cost her life. If anything, that alone has repaid

directed by Zinnia. You can’t tell right from wrong and just make a mess. Are

deathly pale. Her eyes were bloodshot with fury as she raised her

with

down her spine. Her eyes were bloodshot with

has done more than enough

you’re in charge of the Lynn family now? Henry and Sofia are still here.”

She thought, ‘If he hadn’t pulled his investments from the Shaw family, would we have fallen into

voice cut through the crowd. “So what if Jackson heads the Lynn family? Maelis, you’re the outsider

see Henry and Sofia arriving, their expressions stern. Right behind them

were at a business reception when, out of nowhere, someone rushed in to report a commotion in the back garden–Maelis

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some ointment on you.” Maisie rushed to her side. Her

the face. Immediately, Zinnia’s cheeks swelled up, turning

the ointment cap before Yannis abruptly snatched it from

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cold, his eyes frosted with suppressed emotion. He unscrewed the ointment tube and, as gently as he could,

the cool ointment touched her burning cheek, Zinnia winced. She had never been hurt this badly

line. His fury towards Maelis burned white–hot. He crouched beside her and forced himself

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