Chapter 265
“You fiar. You hadn’t said I had to eat three pieces.” Zinnia glared at Yannis. With her bright, fierce eyes, she looked like a bristling little hedgehog
“But I didn’t say you could only have one piece,” Yannis teased, barely holding back a smile as he leisurely enjoyed his food.
“But you never said it had to be three pieces,” Zinnia shot back.
Yannis replied, “I’ll cook fish for you tomorrow.”
“I want salmon,” Zinnia blurted out.
“But three pieces of greens,” Yannis said.
“Fine. Deal,” Zinnia grumbled.
Zinnia stuffed two more pieces of vegetables into her mouth.
They only had dinner together. At lunchtime, Zinnia usually ate at the school cafeteria or went out with Maisie. On weekends, unless she went out, Yannis would have someone deliver meals to her.
“Zinnia, have you thought about which college you’d like to attend?” Yannis asked as he helped her with another bacon.
“With my grades, no way I’d get in.” Zinnia’s eyes crinkled into little crescents as she happily munched on her meat.
Zinnia wasn’t the type to stress over grades. Worst case, she thought she could go back to the small town and grow herbs, treat patients when they came, and just tend to her plants when they didn’t.
Once her master came back, she would ask him what she should do next.
Yannis recalled what Maisie had told Yvette when she got home. He glanced at Zinnia and asked, “I heard you want to go to Mealinia. Why is that?”
“I just want to go out and look around.” Zinnia’s chewing paused briefly before she quickly resumed as if nothing had happened.
She thought, ‘I can’t very well say I suspect Master is in Mealinia. But he’s not the type to randomly ask if I want to go there without a reason.‘
Her master disappeared without a trace, and she had no leads at all. Zinnia wondered if he was in Mealinia, so she wanted to go check.
“Yannis, you should have some vegetables as well,” Zinnia said.
She added, “Your cooking is amazing. You should eat more. You’re looking a bit thin.
“You’ve been working so hard lately. Don’t forget to take care of yourself.
“I’m hanging out with friends tomorrow, so I’ll
I skip going to the office with you.
“Your herbal kit needs replacing. I’ve used up the last batch. I’ll go prepare a new one in my room.”
Zinnia rattled off one sentence after another, leaving Yannis no chance to ask anything else, and then she darted off in a flash.
Yannis silently observed her uneasy expression. He suspected that the MZ Group was based in Mealinia.
He recalled that the MZ Group inexplicably got involved in the Shaw family’s affairs again, and that right after Zinnia left the Shaw fami immediately terminated their contract with the Shaw family.
MZ Group
The MZ Group’s partnership with the Shaw family began precisely when Zinnia returned to the family. Since then, every single incident had been inextricably linked to her.
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Yannis absently tapped his fingers on the tabletop.
He hadn’t properly looked into it yet, just a hunch for now.
He couldn’t figure it out. He wondered why Nathan sent Zinnia back to the Shaw family if he truly was behind the MZ Group.
Yannis thought, ‘He raised Zinnia since she was a kid. Their bond must run deep. Given how attached Zinnia is to him, they must have never been apart
before.
With this sudden departure, he must know how devastated Zinnia would be. But he still left. There must be more to this.
‘After more than a decade of decline and Jackson’s constant meddling, the Moore family is now a shadow of its former self. Nathan can easily handle
them.
‘But why would he be willing to leave Zinnia at home? Well, has something happened to Nathan? If that’s the case, what would become of Zimnia?”
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