This feeling of having your destiny in someone else's hands... it was truly awful.
Anne Sutton stood to the side, glancing at him. She wanted to go over and talk to him, but she held back.
She remembered what Nathan Fawcett had said—he would only spare the Shields Family if she promised to stay away from Justin Shields.
Anne Sutton found her seat and sat down. She heard the people next to her pointing at Justin Shields and talking. "See him? That's Justin Shields, the young master of the Shields Group."
"Oh, him!" The speaker's tone was clearly mocking. "Didn't they say his sister was going to marry Ethan Linden?"
"As if!" Gossiping is human nature. "Ethan Linden doesn't even like his sister. I heard she was the one throwing herself at him. He never wanted to marry her in the first place. And now look. Not only did they fail to latch onto someone powerful, but they also offended Ethan Linden. How tragic."
