Chapter 1452: Zinnia’s Tears
Zinnia paused and looked at her daughter. There...was indeed a way. She had long lost hope for herself, but her children were still so young. Her brother was kind; he’d take them in and raise them as his own!
"Did you... meet them?" she asked, referring to meeting her maternal family.
Zinnia was sent to Hassen because of her stepmother’s greed. She was not allowed to make contact outside and had been trapped inside the large palace that had always felt suffocating to her.
It wasn’t that her husband found the Golds to be a threat. Even if he did acknowledge that they were powerful in their own right, what could they have against him, a city lord in a city with a deep legacy?
That man simply liked everything to be under his complete control. Seeing her want to be with her family so much—oh, how much she had begged him to let her visit her family when she was younger—made him want to prevent it from happening even more.
When she was a young woman, after being on the verge of insanity, she decided to make an escape. She wanted to go home! However, she was caught and punished.
And then she got pregnant.
When her daughter was born, she became his pawn to completely kill Zinnia’s will to defy him.
Who would use his own daughter to threaten his own wife? Evos could.
In any case, Zinnia had never seen her family since the decades she was here... and she didn’t even have news about them at all. Oh, how she missed her brother!
The question made Margaery flinch and grip her skirt with her free hand. She had been dreading this question.
In the end, she took a deep breath and held her mother’s hand tighter.