Listening to Violet's questioning, Ivan's expression froze for a while, and his eyelids dropped, hiding the unspoken look in his eyes.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Violet grabbed his collar and questioned loudly, "Say it, did my in-laws treat you badly? Why are you harboring a murderer! Ivy, she killed the person who took you as her own son!"
"Of course I know that, but I have my plans." Ivan said as he looked down at her hand.
Violet's grip on his collar was trembling, "What's the plan?"
"You don't need to know that, but it's not impossible if you really want to bring Ivy to justice, which is why I said for you to make a deal with me." The corners of Ivan's mouth hooked up.
Violet inexplicably had some bad feeling in her heart.
Intuition told her that his deal must not be one she could accept.
But the thought of bringing Ivy to justice made Violet hesitate again.
After thinking for a few seconds, Violet squeezed her palms and looked Ivan in the eyes, "What deal exactly!"
"As long as you promise to divorce Stanley and be with me, I'm willing to give Ivy to Stanley, how about that? This deal isn't actually that hard for you, is it?" Ivan reached out and lifted a strand of Violet's hair to play with it in his fingertips.
Violet's pupils suddenly shrank, subconsciously she released his collar, stepping back.
The hair in Ivan's hand came out from between his fingers as she stepped back.
He sighed regretfully, twiddled his fingers and put his hand down, "What? You don't want to? Haven't you always wanted Ivy to pay the price she deserves? Ivy tried to murder you three times, hurt your children, and killed my uncle and aunt, how dare you let her stay out there like that?"
"The one who kept her out there, was you!" Violet glared at him angrily, "If you hadn't interfered, we would have disposed of Ivy a long time ago and wouldn't have beaten around the bush at all, so much so that we couldn't even make Ivy pay the price she deserved now."
"You're wrong about that, I didn't take the initiative to intervene, Ivy took the initiative to contact me, after all, it wasn't me who released Ivy, it was Henry from your side, wasn't it?" Ivan spread his hands, "At most, I only helped Ivy hide her trail, but I didn't do anything else."
"You can't deny that you're the one who kept us from catching her." Violet said as she clenched her fist.
Ivan laughed lowly, "Well, that's right, that's why I asked you if you wanted to trade, Stanley should be going crazy trying to catch Ivy, are you sure you want to drag this out?"
Violet sneered, "You forced me to drag it out, you asked me to divorce Stanley to be with you, doesn't that clearly show that you don't want to give Ivy to Stanley, because you know that there's no way I can agree to this deal with you?"
Ivan fell silent, and the smile on his face got serious.
But after a moment, he laughed frivolously again, "Well, it looks like this deal is terminated, but Violet, for your sake, I'll keep this deal for you, you can think about it and change your mind anytime, I'll oblige you."
"Heh." Violet sneered, "You know full well that the people that Stanley and I are trying to catch are the two of you, and you put Ivy out to make a deal while you yourself are hiding and not coming out, so in the end, no matter what, Stanley and I are at a disadvantage."
"I can't help it if you want to think that way." Ivan sighed regretfully.
Violet had lost her appetite for food and sat in her seat, silently contemplating something.
Ivan didn't eat either, holding a glass of red wine and gently shaking it, his eyes looking at her with a smile.
Violet was extremely uncomfortable by his look and frowned, "What are you looking at?"
"I'm looking at you, you're even more beautiful than before." Ivan took a sip of red wine and exclaimed.
Perhaps it was the fact that she had just given birth, the woman had a touch more charm than before, obviously her face was still the same, but she was just more beautiful than before.
When Violet heard this from him, instead of feeling a hint of shyness, she recoiled in disgust.
It was perverted as always for him to think of a wife in such a way.
Before it was the mother-in-law, and now it's her.
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