"All these years I have been worrying about you guys, wondering if you are able to cope well with life outside. More than once, I even had dreams of your father reprimanding me for not taking good care of you guys. And that made me so guilty and uneasy.
Initially, he thought that saying something like this would at least earn him some empathy from Zoey. Instead, he heard her sneer.
"Mr. Lynch should feel guilty. After all, you have trampled on my father and benefitted greatly from his fall and demise.
Mr. Lynch felt a trace of apprehension in his heart, and the look in his eyes was getting increasingly helpless.
"Zoey, I know there are many misunderstandings between you and the Lynch family, but I really did think of you as my daughter.
He shamelessly wanted to go on with this tactic of using kinship to move
Zoey's emotions, but she was not buying it, "Mr. Lynch, please move aside. I still have other ladies to tend to.
"Zoey, must you..."
"Get out of the way."
