Chapter 106: What They Want
"Wait... You guys said I wouldn’t be accepted here..." Marcella placed her hand on her chest and her eyes clouded. "Is it because I am a suspect?" she asked with her lips trembling.
"My Dad is dead, Mom too... My sister is dead and...I ended up with all my father’s wealth... I can understand why I am the perfect suspect...’ Marcella covered her face with her hands.
"No, that’s not~"
"At times I too wonder why I am the one who survived..." she looked at Ruby. "I... My sister should have lived... The baby... whenever I look at him, I am filled with guilt. He should have had his mother with him. He does not want me. He wants his mother. I want him to have his mother too..."
She ended up sobbing. It was her true feeling. She started up as trying to manipulate them, but she ended up opening up her heart. Ruby must have sensed the sincerity in her survivor’s guilt, she became a little soft with her afterward.
The others joined too. There is something powerful in the tears of a woman. It’s a bonus if the woman is beautiful. The crying woman can move mountains just with her tears. She can get the men with iron hearts to melt in her tears and do stuff they wouldn’t normally do.
Marcella smiled in her heart. She never once thought that she could be a suspect. She just pretended to be dumb and emotional.
They went for another round getting hyped up on coffee. They were "concerned" for her and asked her a lot of questions. She answered them patiently and with apt emotions.
Marcella was not ready to leave yet even though it was past seven in the evening. She was just getting a hold of everyone there.
She was getting interrogated, in a fun, manipulative way, she could understand.
Since she knew she was getting interrogated, and they believed that she believes that they are being friendly and kind to her, she ended up manipulating them with her answers.
By now, every one of them found her pitiful one way or another.