Hiding Behind Her Superficiality by Kyla Olson

Chapter 485 You Can’t Work With Arthur

“Isn’t this condition attractive enough?”

Indeed, that one condition was enough for Haris to risk his life.

Jasmine was the McGrath Family’s only heir. If anything happened to her, their bloodline would end here.

Besides, Jasmine and Haris had a close relationship as she grew up under his care.

He had to get her out safely, by hook or by crook.

“Great. I’ll release her mom, and you’ll let Jas go.”

This was the best move for now, as he could no longer execute his original plan.

Elspeth was ready to agree since this was an equal exchange for her.

However, Callum placed a hand on her arm and motioned for her not to agree so quickly. “No. What we want isn’t that simple.”

Haris thought that they could come to an agreement with reason and didn’t expect Callum to suddenly change his mind. “What do you mean by that?”

“Nothing. It’s just that after some thought, it seems that you’ll benefit more from this than we would, and that’s not quite fair now, isn’t it?”

Now that Haris knew where Jasmine was. He wasn’t as worked up as he started bargaining calmly.

“And what is this benefit?”

“Jasmine is your granddaughter. You have a close relationship with her. So, you’ll gain more after this exchange.”

Elspeth suppressed her laughter as she listened to Callum, as he made it seem like that was the case.

Even though what he said made sense, something still felt off.

like he was haggling in a

person is Elspeth’s mother. Why would I gain more from this?” Haris felt that Callum

is just only a woman who birthed her. They don’t have a close bond. So, it’s up to Elspeth if she wants to save her mother.” Callum then diverted the attention to Haris and

he tried to restrain his raging emotions. He didn’t expect Callum to see through

would

because of

be careful now as he realized the severe consequences this could

what do you

return Elspeth’s mother and promise me that you’ll never work with Arthur again. Of course, you’ll have

eyes widened in

Callum wanted to gain something from this. But she didn’t think

something she had never thought

look at Callum being his confident self and felt a sense

was probably the reason she liked

confident while he had contingency plans in place despite being several steps ahead of his opponents. Maybe she had a competency kink,

being was a fatal attraction to

“Why this condition?”

my personal preference. You can

“You!”

that Callum was threatening Haris. If Haris disagreed with

so infuriated that his restraint crumbled as he snorted, “You punk. You’re more cunning than

I just

he wasn’t

He didn’t say that they couldn’t chat about this

needed to be careful and take advantage of

himself

“Okay. It’s a deal.”

a contract

to go through it and sign it,” he said before sliding the contract toward

going to give Haris a chance to pipe up or regret his decision

rose to dangerous levels. Besides, he was already taking medication for his high cholesterol,

this was an easy deal. He just needed to return Elspeth’s mother and then think of a way to weasel