Chapter 5

The banquet hall in the old Foster family mansion fell completely silent. You could have heard a pin drop.

Every person at the table froze mid-motion. Even the noisy children seemed to sense the shift and went quiet all at once.

Amelia's hand stopped halfway as she held her wine glass. The muscles in her face twitched without her control.

"What kind of joke is this?" James asked.

The eyes that had always looked at me with mockery and boredom were now wide with shock for the first time.

"Evelyn, what has gotten into you?"

"If something is wrong, we…