Chapter 472
He felt a wrenching pain in his heart as his stomach tied up in knots. Josiah bellowed furiously into the phone, “Ysabelle, don‘t you dare touch her!”
Ysabelle said nothing and all Josiah could hear was Meredith‘s painful cries. After a moment, Ysabelle finally replied in a mocking tone, “Didn‘t you watch the video that I sent you? The baby is gone, Josiah. Why do you still care if she dies?” “Or...” Ysabelle cackled and added, “could it be that you‘re calling me to tell me that you’re giving up on her? That you don‘t care whether she dies or not?”
“Cut your bull and tell me what it is that you want!” With his teeth gritted tightly together, Josiah seethed, “Ysabelle, if you‘re smart enough, you know better that killing Meredith won’t do you any good. So tell me what it is that you want and I‘ll do what I can.”
Ysabelle laughed instead, “You‘re a funny man, aren‘t you, Mister Josiah? Even if I ask for a hundred million dollars, what‘s the use of that money anyway? It‘s not like I have the chance to use it. Unless you give me my freedom. But oh wait, you‘ve even taken away my chance to request medical parole, haven‘t you? So no, I don‘t think there‘s anything that you can give
me.”
“Freedom? That‘s what you want? Okay, I‘ll give it to you,” Josiah replied. As long as she was willing to let Meredith go, Josiah was willing to accept all of Ysabelle‘s requests.
But Ysabelle did not believe him because Josiah accepted her request without any hesitation.
“That was easy,” Ysabelle laughed and added, “well let me guess what you have planned out, hmm? You‘re convincing me to let Meredith go and after that, you‘ll report me to the cops and have me locked up in jail again. And I‘ll be sentenced for another crime. Not to mention freedom, I don‘t think I‘ll be able to walk out of jail alive, do I?”
“No. I am a man of my word.” Josiah did not wish to waste any more time with her.
All he wanted was to save Meredith.
But Ysabelle was not someone who could be easily convinced. Josiah was a man who would drag his own wife to hell just to see her suffer, let alone Ysabelle...someone who dared to challenge and provoke him.
Hence, no matter what Josiah said, she would not trust him.
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