Joyce lifted her head and looked at him. “If you were not, you wouldn't have been so firm in asking me to abort him in the first place, and you wouldn't have let me use this child as a quid pro quo just now, would you?”

Stanley pursed his lips. “You're right. I do hate this child, but if you insist on keeping him, it's not impossible.”

“As long as I agree to send my dad to jail, right?” Joyce sneered.

He narrowed his eyes. “Of course not. You can keep the child, and I can also keep your dad from going to jail.”

Joyce's pupils instantly dilated when she heard that. “What did you say? You'll let me keep the child and also keep Dad from going to jail?”

Jonathan also stared at the younger man in disbelief from the side. “Do you have other ulterior motives, kid?”

Stanley pursed his lips and replied flatly, “If I do, I would've started plotting long ago, and I wouldn't have told you this at all.”


His words made Jonathan's throat tighten, rendering him speechless.

Joyce grasped the railing of the hospital bed with both hands. “Are you serious, Mr. Quinn? Will you really let me keep the child and also keep my dad from going to jail?”

This time, Stanley finally replied with a nod, “Of course.”

“But you surely have other conditions, right?” she asked as she looked at him.

She refused to believe that anything in the world would be that simple. Whatever good thing only happens on TV. It doesn't exist in the real world. Furthermore, with him hating me and my family so much, there's no way he'll let me keep the baby and spare Dad without any conditions. So, he must have other ulterior motives.

She refused to believe that anything in the world would be that simple. Whatever good thing only happens on TV. It doesn't exist in the real world. Furthermore, with him hating me and my family so much, there's no way he'll let me keep the baby and spare Dad without any conditions. So, he must have other ulterior motives.

Sure enough, Stanley narrowed his eyes slightly and said, “You're right. I do have other conditions, but I haven't decided yet. When I've thought it through, I'll put it forward.”

Joyce breathed a sigh of relief. So he hasn't decided yet. That's also good. I was worried that he might put forward other conditions that would make things difficult for me and the Rivers family. Although I have no idea whether the conditions he proposes later will place me in a difficult situation, I'll act as though I don't know since he hasn't done that. In any case, I must save the baby and Dad first.

“Since you haven't put forward the conditions to spare the child and my dad, you won't call the police, right?” she asked, hope evident in her voice.

“Of course. But for the next few days, you must take care of me here until I recover and get discharged from the hospital.”

“What are you thinking?” Jonathan pulled a long face. He approached Stanley angrily and glared at him as if he had done something heinous. He then grabbed the collar of Stanley's hospital gown. “How dare you let Joyce take care of you! Don't you know that she's pregnant? Are you doing this on purpose? You deliberately asked her to take care of you, then you'll torture her until she has a miscarriage. Is that what you want?”

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