Love's Perfect Match

Chapter 477

CHAPTER 477 QUID PRO QUO

Can it be that Old Mr. McGrath knows about my mother?

"What is it that you know of, Old Mr. McGrath? Please do tell."

At that, Haris chuckled. "No rush. It's just that I don't know if I should say it so easily. You see, I don't know if Winthrop here knows about it."

Elspeth's heart skipped a beat. Callum was unaware of it just yet.

Callum, on the other hand, was unfazed. "I'm her husband. Is there anything I can't hear about?"

"No, not quite."

At that, the elder person explained, saying, "I want to talk about Elspeth's mother…"

"She has passed. I suggest you don't talk about it anymore."

Callum had thought she felt uncomfortable after hearing Haris' words and recalled some sad moments when he saw her grim face. Elspeth, on the other hand, thought she was right about her guess.

"No, her mother hadn't passed."

Callum frowned in response. "What do you mean?"

"Her mother is still alive. She's just somewhere Elspeth can't find."

At that, Callum turned to his beloved. Seeing that she didn't panic in the way that he had imagined, he knew it wasn't as he imagined.

"I'd appreciate it if you could be clear about it."

"I'm saying the woman who passed wasn't Elspeth's birth mother."

"Then, do you know where my birth mother is?" Elspeth asked.

Suddenly, Haris appeared reluctant. "That's pretty much all that I know of. As for where she is specifically, I don't know."

At that, Callum held Elspeth's hand under the table while graveness laced his face. "You wouldn't have brought us here to merely tell us that."

In other words, Haris had more than just that in mind, and it'd be some inhumane condition.

"I knew you were highly intelligent, my boy." Haris suddenly guffawed. However, it was one that was rather unfamiliar and uncomfortable. "I won't hide it from you anymore, then. I've naturally met up with you and told you all of this because I want something in exchange."

"If it's for us to divorce so that Jasmine can be with me, you can stop right here," Callum countered without hesitation, causing Haris to turn grim instantly. "Do you think you're in any position to negotiate with me?"

Elspeth had never seen this side of Haris. Back in the McGrath Residence, the impression he gave her was, at the very least, amiable even though he was cloistered.

Not only had he never treated her with malicious intent, but he even instilled much medical knowledge in her.

Even if there wasn't gratitude, she respected the elder, at least. However, at this moment, she thought the grim-looking man sitting before her was inexplicably alien.

"We're not negotiating. It's you who are using it to threaten us, no?"

"Then, are you willing to make the exchange?"

When Elspeth saw the inevitable smirk on Haris' face, she suddenly realized he might know more than they expected.

"As I respect you, I will ask you this, Old Mr. McGrath. Do you think Jasmine will be happy if she marries me?" Callum's attitude toward the elder gradually turned impassive.

"Then, do you think my Jas is happy now?" Haris hit the roof at the mention of Jasmine's incident.

How could he not know what actually went down when he had lived over sixty years?!

"I knew that child since she was a baby. How could I not know that she would never do something like that with another man on her wedding day and even let you discover it so coincidentally?! Do you not think it is all too coincidental?!"

At the thought that the two had possibly colluded to harm his precious granddaughter, let her shoulder all the blame, and in turn, call off the marriage, he wanted nothing more than to mangle the two.

"So, you're saying you suspect it's my doing?" Callum remained nonchalant, looking as though the incident had nothing to do with him at all.

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