In the private room, everyone gathered together, yet the atmosphere was inexplicably eerie.
Cressida Jones felt it especially, as she could clearly feel everyone's gaze drifting around, ultimately fixing on her.
There had been an incident just before, and with Tim Payne's public confession, it seemed that the Payne Family Members looked at her with unusual eyes.
Surprise, inquiry, scrutiny…
It made her inexplicably anxious.
Her family background was vastly different from Tim Payne's, not to mention the mess left by the Jones Family and a sick grandmother, plus the fact that Payne Corps' lawyers had been involved all along in her schemes against her biological father and stepmother and stepsister, surely the Payne Family Members knew all about it.
She was not the simple ingenue, likely far from what the Payne Family would seek in a daughter-in-law.
