"The Woods Family doesn't know about this yet, do they?" Marcus Monroe smiled faintly at the girl. "As for you... are you planning to keep them in the dark and then run for the hills?"
Faye Webb didn't feel the least bit of joy seeing that smile. Instead, it was like looking at an all-knowing demon, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably.
'Why?!'
'He'd guessed everything!'
"What... what do you... want?"
She stumbled through the short sentence, her composure completely gone.
Although she had suffered a great deal of bullying in the Woods Family, making her more calculating and braver than the average girl from a prominent family, she was ultimately too inexperienced. Now that the truth was out and her plan exposed, the self-satisfaction she'd felt just a short while ago, believing she had everything under control, was gone.
A profound sense of fear began to creep in.
