Chapter 21: Containing Her Bargaining Chips
"You don't have to agree," he clamped the cigarette between his fingers, and clicked the cigarette butt on the coffee table: "It's just that next time Yoyo disappears from your eyes, I can't guarantee who would kidnap her."
The last word fell, and he raised his eyes to meet Amanda's eyes, and there was a fierce glow at the bottom of his eyes obviously, which made his words doubtful.
He will do what he said.
It was precise because of knowing that he could do something like this, Amanda felt a little at a loss. The child was all her weakness. She had tried her best to avoid letting Steven know the existence of the child. However, she failed at last.
It's been a long time since Amanda felt helpless, but Amanda was thankful that she was no longer what she used to be, at least now she would not be under his control, and the compromise this time did not mean that she was the final loser.
"With all due respect, even if Anne's depression was caused by me, I am a makeup artist for the dead, not a doctor. I can only 'cure' the dead. I am afraid I have not much effect on her situation."
"You just need to do what I said, stay here, as, for the rest, you don't have to think about it."
Until now, her attitude in front of him was neither humble nor overbearing. No matter when she was pointed at him with a gun before, or when her child was threatened later, her reaction had refreshed all his past cognition to her bit by bit.
Steven gripped the cigarette with his fingers but did not rush to light it. His gloomy eyes looked straight at Amanda, and there was a dull and unclear light under his eyes.
Amanda suddenly felt a little funny. Six years ago, he couldn't wait to drive her away. Six years later, he wanted to use means to keep her behind.
The only thing that didn’t change was that it was all to torture her whether he drove her away or tried to keep her by his side.
Amanda said with a cold face, she didn't want to waste any more time, and said in a solemn voice: "I can agree, but I have three points that you must agree to."
"Say it."
"One, you can let me do anything, but the child is innocent, I can stay here, she must leave."
She paused and continued: "Two: No matter how long I stay here, I must go to work as usual during working days, but you don’t need to worry about that, I won't leave without permission since I have agreed to your request."
"Three," Amanda squinted her eyes and said clearly: "Because of Anne's depression, I stay here. As long as her depression recovers, I will leave immediately, and you are not allowed to use the child to threaten me anymore. And we will be even”
Anne had no depression. The so-called depression was just a method she used to keep Steven. As long as she found an authoritative psychologist to prove that Anne was not sick at all, then Steven would naturally leave Anne and have no reason to torment her.
Amanda had a plan in her heart, she stopped talking after she finished her three-point requests, only quietly waiting for his response.
Steven seemed to hesitate for a while, and the smoke in his hand was finally ignited. The cigarette butt was red and the sparks were bright and dark, then the smoke blurred his angular face, which made his quality a little softer. Coupled with his casual and lazy movements, the whole person got a little gentleness.
Amanda saw in his eyes, there was no slack in his heart.
Sure enough, Steven's deep voice was still cold after the smoke-like false gentleness: "I can understand the second point and the third point, and I can agree on both of them, but the first point."
He slowly exhaled the white smoke in his mouth, and the eagle eyes stared at Yoyo who was staring at him all the time in confusion, then the dark light flashed: "She is my best bargaining chip to keep you, send her back, Miss Lu, do you think it is possible? ?"