Mrs Hale, I Surrender
Chapter 405 - 404 Junior President Payne Bullies Others and is Very Arrogant (3 more updates)

Chapter 405: 404 Junior President Payne Bullies Others and is Very Arrogant (3 more updates)

Banquet Hall

The engagement party was nearing its end, and those remaining were mostly close relatives and friends of the Jeans and Jones families.

Since her mother was always by her side, Marigold Jones had no chance to check her phone. Lavinia Wilde suggested she leave early, "The engagement party is almost over, I’ll wait for your father. You go home first."

"No rush." Marigold Jones was still waiting for the show to start.

Lavinia Wilde didn’t understand, as there seemed no point in staying. Meanwhile, her phone vibrated—it was Silas Jones calling, "Where’s Marigold?"

"Right next to me."

"Hurry and bring her to the banquet hall. Junior President Payne has arrived; he wants to see her."

"Why?"

"I have no idea. He specifically asked to see Marigold. Just bring her here," Silas Jones urged her quickly.

Although Marigold Jones felt it was strange, she dared not offend Tim Payne. She neatly adjusted her clothes and even wore a hat to cover her injured ear before slowly making her way to the banquet hall.

By then, only half of the guests were still inside.

Tim Payne had an indifferent expression, while the other members of the Jeans and Jones families stood by, forcing smiles.

No one knew why this gentleman had returned.

"Junior President Payne." Marigold Jones approached smiling, "I heard you were looking for me."

Tim Payne took off his coat and gestured for her to come closer.

The crowd was skeptical.

Marigold Jones felt a sense of panic, fearing something bad was about to happen. As she came closer, Tim Payne was already rolling up his sleeves. She barely managed a smile when suddenly...

Tim Payne raised his hand,

and a slap landed across her face.

Without any warning, she staggered and fell to the ground, her hat knocked off, and her freshly treated ear started bleeding again.

Everyone gasped in shock. Lavinia Wilde was the first to rush forward, "Junior President Payne, what are you doing? Why are you hitting my daughter?"

"Just because your Payne family is powerful doesn’t give you the right to bully people like this!"

"Believe me, I’ll call the police."

Tim Payne slightly curled his lips, his face filled with a cold air, "I’ve already called the police, and moreover..."

"I am indeed using my power to bully others, so what?"

What can you do to me?

His tone and gaze were arrogant and defiant!

"Junior President Payne, could there be some misunderstanding here? What on earth are you doing?" Silas Jones said, trying to ingratiate himself.

"Even if Marigold did something wrong to offend you, she is still just a young girl. No matter what, for you to physically attack her..."

"That’s inappropriate!"

"This is also the first time I’ve hit a woman," Tim Payne twisted his wrist, his gaze falling on Marigold Jones with a light but oppressive look.

"Instead of asking me why, you should ask Second Miss Jones what exactly she has done!"

Tim Payne has always been upright. He seldom attended evening receptions and meetings. If it weren’t for his arch-enemy Finn Hale, he would have never had a conflict with anyone, let alone strike someone...

Marigold Jones really had some nerve!

Now, those still here were all very close relations; everyone knew what kind of person Marigold Jones was.

It seems,

She has really met her match this time.

"Marigold, what have you done?" Silas Jones glared at his daughter.

Marigold Jones was dumbfounded. Indeed, she had done some things behind her parents’ backs, but they had nothing to do with Tim Payne. So his sudden slap left her completely baffled, and she just shook her head, saying she didn’t know.

"It seems Second Miss Jones won’t give up until she’s at the brink."

Just as Tim Payne finished speaking, a man wearing only briefs was dragged in by Kyle Lowe.

Despite the heating, the man was shivering notably in this season. Having been kicked twice by William Hale, his stomach continued to convulse in pain.

He scrambled up from the ground, "Junior President Payne, none of this has anything to do with me, it was all Marigold Jones who made me do it!"

"She wanted to harm Cressida Jones, and promised to give me money afterwards."

"And this matter is disgraceful in itself; even if Cressida Jones were to call the police, she could convince her own father to withdraw the complaint because the Jones Family can’t afford to lose face."

...

In a matter of few sentences, though the whole situation wasn’t entirely clear.

But piecing together what happened at the engagement party, everyone could roughly guess.

"Has Marigold gone mad? Doing such disgusting deeds herself and still wanting to ruin others."

"Heartless and crazed, she’s just purely evil."

"A born bad seed, making mistakes without repenting, and just keep on making more, truly beyond redemption."

Relatives and friends talked all at once, looking at the Jeans Family with changed expressions.

Beckett Jeans, on one hand, found it thrilling, after all, she was his fiancée’s sister, on the other hand, it was because Marigold was unrestrained in bed, with many tricks.

He could tolerate her occasionally doing outrageous things.

However, tonight’s incident was beyond his expectations; he felt like he never really saw the woman in front of him.

"Marigold, is what he said true?" Silas Jones, having heard this, was nearly blinded by rage.

He might not like Cressida, but she was his daughter.

In public, the family’s dirty laundry aired, and even involving Tim Payne, it was difficult for him to protect his younger daughter.

"No, not really..."

Marigold Jones just tried to argue when the man jumped up, "If you don’t believe it, check her phone. There are photos I sent her; she said to take photos and videos to make Cressida taste the bitterness of total ruin."

"Where is the phone!" Silas Jones wanted to search for the phone.

Marigold Jones, feeling guilty, naturally refused to let her father take the phone.

Deliberately, she threw it,

"Bang—" the phone hit the ground, the screen shattered, and it turned off instantly.

Tim Payne chuckled lowly, "Second Miss Jones, you don’t think that smashing the phone would make the evidence disappear, do you."

While speaking, Kyle Lowe had already bent down to pick up the phone.

The photos inside were of his wife; naturally, he couldn’t allow them to leak.

Marigold Jones’s act of deliberately smashing the phone spoke volumes. Silas Jones trembled with anger, grabbed her, and raised his hand to strike her, "Unfilial daughter, are you trying to kill me?"

Countless slaps fell, like a torrential downpour.

Marigold Jones covered her face and hid behind her mother.

"Silas Jones, have you gone mad? She’s your daughter; do you really want to beat her to death?"

"I wish I could kill her!"

What a public disgrace.

"Marigold didn’t do it on purpose, it’s just that Cressida is too bullying. She could have just said she wanted to call off the engagement; why did she have to ruin her sister’s reputation? Marigold was just annoyed, losing her rationality, what she did was also somewhat excusable."

Lavinia Wilde, holding her daughter, also teary-eyed, "Besides, looks like Cressida is probably fine."

"It’s still unknown..."

"Why would Junior President Payne be so angry about Cressida’s situation, what is your relationship?"

Tim Payne hadn’t expected that this mess...

Would actually blaze up to him again!

"Aunt Wilde, what do you mean by that?" As he spoke, Cressida Jones also appeared in the banquet hall.

She gave Tim Payne a look, reassuring him.

Zoe Payne was unharmed.

"Silas, see, I told you Cressida is fine." Lavinia Wilde smiled, "Look, even her clothes are intact, what could have possibly happened to her, it’s just siblings fooling around."

Tim Payne, hearing this, his face darkened.

Who’s sibling fooling around aims to ruin someone’s innocence?