The mocking and disdainful gazes of the people around her were like countless poisonous, spiked arrows that made it hard for her to breathe.
"I harmed you?" Cressida Jones sneered, "Aunt Wilde, you were the one cheating behind my dad's back! And now you want to splash the dirty water on me."
She glanced at Martin Yates, subtly signaling him not to get involved in this affair.
The sordid details of his family's scandal were not worth sullying someone else's hands.
It was then that Martin Yates stepped aside, his gaze sweeping over Beckett Jeans with contempt.
"That is because..."
Lavinia Wilde suddenly turned her head towards Mr. Drake.
Although Mr. Drake was a lascivious old man, he didn't wish to engage in indecencies under the public gaze and said, "I was dazed just now, feeling all hot and bothered without knowing what happened!"
"Could it be that someone drugged us?" someone guessed.