Chapter 39
“Zinnia, can I have one too? Perry looked at her hopefully. “I can’t sleep well at right either.”
“Weren’t you just having trouble eating?” Zinnia turned to him, confused. He didn’t look like he had insomnia.
“I can’t eat, so get really hungry at night. And then I can’t sleep,” Perry explained.
“Then I’ll give you one.” Zinnia didn’t think too hard about it. She reached into her small backpack again and pulled out another herbal pouch for Perry
She thought the timing was kind of perfect. These two pouches were ones she had made earlier for Yosef and Timothy, but before she could give them out, the whole situation with Betty happened.
After that, she never got the chance to hand them over, so they’d just stayed in her bag. Since Yanes and Perry asked, she just gave the pouches to them
instead.
Zinnia started to notice that rich people always seemed to be sick somehow. If it wasn’t insomnia, it was stomach problems or something else. The Shaw family was like that. Jackson too. And now even Jackson’s friends.
She shook her head. She really didn’t get it. These people had everything–money, power, nice clothes, eat food–and yet they were all messed up
somehow.
But then she remembered the kind of food the Shaw family usually ate, stuff every day, she’d probably get sick too.
and it started to make a little more sense. If she had to eat that bland vegetarian
“Thanks!‘ll take good care of it,” Perry said happily, accepting the pouch.
Since Jackson and Yannis bath had little gifts from Zinnia, Perry felt like he needed one too
“All right, eat
t, eat up,” Jackson said, starting to pick out more food for Zinnia.
Zinnia went back to eating meat. The delicious flavors made her eyes crinkle with a smile. The other three watched her enjoying the food and couldn’t help but feel happy too.
“You guys didn’t feed her or something?” Yannis looked up at Jackson.
Zinnia looked so happy and grateful just eating chili con came, like she hadn’t had anything good in a long time. She was skinny and small. Yannis wondered if she’d grow any taller in the future.
“It’s the Shaw family that starved her” Jackson said without even lifting his head. Seeing how much she liked meat, he added another plate of it in front of her.
He glanced at Zinnia, about to ask if the Shaw family really hadn’t been feeding her properly,
“The Shaw family?” Yannis frowned. He had just come back to the country not long ago and hadn’t kept up with the Shaw family drama
However, his cousin had mentioned that there was this super annoying daughter in the Shaw family. Based on her story, Yannis didn’t like the Shaws
much either
Even though the Lynn family was connected to the Shaw family by marriage, Yannis didn’t have much to do with any of the Shaw boys. The Shaws basically got rich thanks to the Lynns, so they weren’t exactly on the same level.
Now hearing Jackson bring them up, Yannis frowned, guessing that Zinnia might be that switched at birth daughter the Shaw family had just gotten back.
Back when he was abroad, Yannis had heard Jackson casually mention that his aunt’s kid had been switched at birth. Jackson didn’t seem to care
at the time.
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Since Jackson had always acted like he didn’t care about that new daughter, and now he seemed to care so much about Za, Yannis hadn’t made the connection that Zinnia was that kid the Shaw family had recently brought back.
When Jackson introduced her, he had only said her name he never mentioned her last name. So Yannis just assumed Zinnia was an
“Jackson, Betty Shaw isn’t as sweet and gentle as she looks. You better protect Zinnia,” Perry said.
Perry knew the whole story with the Shaw family. The moment he saw Zinnia, he figured it out. And thinking of the Betty he had met before, he shook his head and glanced at Jackson again.
He felt like Zinnia was no match for someone like felty. Zinnia wasn’t the type to fight or push for anything.
“Of course,” Jackson nodded, then looked at Yannis
