Chapter 169

"Uncle, release Mommy now! She already ate breakfast!" Mackie requested.

"Already ate breakfast? Are you kidding me?" Vernon refused to let go because he found it ridiculous to eat so little. Chloe was so thin, too thin. Vernon was worried that his sister-in-law could crumble to pieces just by a small squeeze from him. 

"She only ate two grilled cherry tomatoes and a mushroom! What the heck is that? That does not even count as a snack!"

Vernon thought that Mackie was just trying to bail her Mommy out even though she was eating so little. 

But Mackie didn't want to lose against her Uncle. She insisted, "Mommy already ate a lot, Uncle! She already eats more than she usually has! Usually, Mommy only—"

"Shush!" Chloe warned her daughter not to speak too much, or she'd get punished. She felt it was unfair that she couldn't tell Uncle Vernon that she only ate so little at their mansion.