Chapter 529 Reaching an Agreement 

The two of them stared at each other silently. The surroundings were so quiet that the chirps of the insects in the grass 

could be heard. Neither of them spoke. 

August took a deep breath, suddenly looked away, and said softly, "You are not one of Bishop's people, so he won't let 

you go." 

Lucia was puzzled, so she asked, "What do you mean?" 

A glimmer of light flashed across August's eyes, but he said in a very calm voice, "They've long bound us together. Do 

you remember what Ethan has done to you?" 

Lucia was slightly startled and then nodded. 

"I am going against them now, so you must take my side. Even if you don't choose me, they will still use you as a hostage to threaten me. And 1..." August paused, and his Adam's apple slid up and down. Then, he said lightly, "I won't let them. 

hurt you." 

Hearing this, Lucia was a little surprised. After she thought carefully about what he had said just now in her mind, she 

suddenly realized something and then tensed up. 

Bishop and Ethan always bound her and August together and used her as a hostage to threaten him. And they had taken advantage of her to find him this time. They had been making use of her against him from the very beginning. She felt as 

if there were an invisible line between her and August, binding and pulling them. Just now, Lucia had a flash of 

inspiration and suddenly figured it out. 

The invisible line between her and August was the kids. If Bishop and Ethan had not known Timothy and Janet were 

August's blood, they would not have used her against him again and again. After she thought about it carefully, she was 

sure they knew it. Realizing this, she had a lingering fear, so she raised her eyes to look at August. Seeing that his 

was calm, she was secretly relieved.

her

feared the most. Even

at the thought of this matter. And she knew she had

now. 

bit her lower lip, and said, "I can stand on your side, but I have

protect my family. I don't want them to get

and then, he nodded, "Deal."

breath and said, "Okay, I'm on your side

very beginning than be neutral and passive.

preferred to prepare well and fight for herself and her family. She had once

had proved hiding could not solve

in a deep voice, "From now on,

senses, looked into his shining black eyes,

had met again this time, they had doubted each other. But now, there seemed to be

pulling them

so he said

Jeanne's assault when

at Evergreen Temple. And then, we'll call it even."

a much more relaxed expression

misunderstandings between them seemed to have been cleared up. They looked at each other and smiled in

Everything that had happened before became

Suddenly, a deliberate cough interrupted their intertwined gazes.

asleep in the middle of

and Lucia looked over at the same time, they saw Joshua standing at the door with a half-lit cigarette

his fingers and staring at them with

gasped in shock, felt inexplicably embarrassed, and hurriedly

she quickly walked up the steps, passed by Joshua, and then entered the door.

to him, looked at August casually, and

make trouble for each other during the day? I thought you

affectionate at night?" 

latter turned a blind eye and continued to joke, "What trick

me!" 

the sky, and said coldly, "If you are energetic and can't

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