“Carter, we’re all adults, so you don’t have to beat around the bush.”
“Alright, I won’t,” Carter finally admitted.
As he spoke, he turned around, and his sharp and deep black eyes were staring straight at Madeline.
“Eveline, you want to see your daughter, don’t you? I can make an exchange with you.”
Madeline furrowed her charming eyebrows. “What do you want from me?”
“Since you know Fabian and Evan, then it’ll be easy. Get Evan to promise me that he’ll ask his father to heal Shirley, then I’ll give your daughter back to you.”
Carter voiced such a request for the exchange.
Madeline chuckled softly. “Evan and I are just strangers coming together by chance. I can’t convince him, nor do I have the ability to convince his father.”
“You can’t, but Fabian can.” Carter’s tone was filled with absolute confidence.
Madeline also saw that determination in Carter’s eyes.
It was heinous of him to make Lillian the term for the exchange, but at the same time, it also showed how much he cared about Shirley.
“What do you think. Eveline? Do you need time to consider?” Carter’s tone sounded irreverent. At the present, Carter, no longer wanting to leave, walked over to the chair and sat down carefreely instead.
“I have all the time in the world, but I wonder, does your daughter have the time?”
Upon hearing Carter utter this statement that was so brazenly laced with threat, Madeline clenched her fists tightly. A few seconds later, she took a deep breath and unclenched her fists.
Madeline turned around and faced Carter who was sitting by the window.
His arrogant stone-cold expression was still the same as when she first met him, but the noble elegance was nowhere to be seen.
Presently, Carter was a prejudiced and heartless devil.
“Whether Evan agrees to save Shirley and you abducting my daughter are two separate things, Carter. Don’t mix these two things.”
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