Iris looked at the two people who were getting along happily and laughed as she said, "Those who don't know would think that you guys are biological mother and daughter."
As she said that, she turned her head to look at Zoey and said, "Zoey, when are you going to be like this with me?"
She also wanted her future daughter-in-law to be able to rely on her, rather than there always seeming to be a slight barrier between the two of them. They seemed less close than Yvonne and Yana were.
Zoey caught the yearning in Iris' eyes, and her heart suddenly surged with guilt. "Mother-in-law, sorry, I..."
She was grateful that Iris genuinely liked her and treated her like a mother from the bottom of her heart, but she had grown up without a mother and sometimes didn't know how to get along with female elders, and even more so, she didn't know how to behave with them, so it looked as if she didn't want to be close to them to outsiders.
