Barney met Andre.
The two of them hadn’t seen each other since they arrived in Yupto, after all, Barney was not well and was in surgery before.
Even after he was discharged from the hospital, Andre did not want to see Barney, what he wanted was only for Nellie to return to his side.
And there is nothing anyone can do for her.
Barney picked up the water in front of him and took a sip, looked across at Andre and said, “What will it take to let her go?”
“Let go?”
When he heard this, Andre looked like he had heard a joke.
Between him and Nellie, he even used these two words?
They had good terms before, so why was it such situation now?
Barney, “Say your terms.”
He was dry and unobtrusive.
Barney was clear about those past between Andre and Nellie, and naturally knew that Nellie would not want to be by Andre.
She was once truly in love with Andre.
But this love, in the end, makes her scarred all over, if not hurt to the limit, a woman will not easily give up the person she loves.
“Are you asking me to sell her?” Andre looked at Barney in front of him with a dark look in his eyes, danger flickering under them.
Barney, “She has spent many years on you, and she is now leaving you even though she has wasted all that time, so she really moves on, why do you have to be so persistent?”
His voice was soft, but he spoke with conviction.
At the sound of that, a sharp pain in Andre’s heart.
Nellie spent many years on him? Yes, a long, long time, after returning from Yupto that year.
He had just been deliberately avoiding her, except for that woman, who was so persistent.
But why, with such a great obsession, did it suddenly stop?
“She has told you the truth many times, right?” Barney continued as Andre did not say anything.
It was like a sharp blade, stabbing fiercely at Andre’s heart.
Yes.
Nellie had said those so-called truths many times before, but not once did he believe it.
He had never trusted the woman.
“So what?”
Andre responded in a sharp tone, and his eyes were stern.
The aura between the two men instantly turned sabre-rattling, with the special assistants on both sides looking at each other’s masters with wariness.
Barney put down the glass of water in his hand.
He was elegant in his movement, but it was also overpowering.
He was like an emperor of the dark night, carrying a danger in the darkness.
Barney, “I just hope you show her some respect, since it’s your choice, you can’t impose the price on her.”
“The price?”
“Isn’t it? She’s paying for the mistakes you’ve made over the years.”
Mistake?
Andre knew that he was wrong, but even if that was the case, so what?
It’s been so many years between them.
And for once, she had got into his hearat.
“I can respect her for anything, but not this.” Andre spoke, his tone insistent.
Andre could never let her leave him.
Hostility flashed in Barney’s eyes.
The anger that was already in each other’s bodies was now clashing together.
Andre, “Do I need to remind you of what the Brooks family’s attitude towards her is now? The Brooks family is a traditional family.”
“But there are some things in the shadows that are outrageously traditional. Are you trying to get her to jump into the deep end again?”
Why was Andre so insistent this time?
Even if he disrespected her, he still had to insist on taking her back to Shirling.
It was because, much of the depths of the Brooks family had been unearthed by him and it was so heinous to see the things that had happened.
He wouldn’t have put Nellie in that predicament.
“She won’t face the Brooks family.”
“Heh.”
Andre sneered.
“You mustn’t forget that you’re a Brooks family member, and as long as it’s because of you, the Brooks family has countless reasons for her to face it.”
“…”
“Just a moment ago, what did your grandmother ask of you?” As he said this, Andre’s tone sharpened.
Although it is not known exactly what they talked about.
But from those means of dealing with things against that old lady before, it was clear what Nellie was really up against this time.
Nellie was heartless and he should have let her go to the Brooks family to suffer.
But the thought of the old woman’s viciousness and venom made him uneasy.
Barney’s gaze instantly sank.
Andre looked at his reaction and said with great satisfaction, “Don’t talk to me about respect or disrespect.”
“There are times when what is called respect is really quite superficial. It’s what a person’s future looks like, that’s what matters.”
If Nellie did get together with Barney, there was just so much more for her to face.
Andre didn’t want her to fall into that abyss.
Barney’s face was not good, he only looked gloomily at Andre, who said, “Mr. Brooks, you know very well that there are many things that the Brooks family cannot change.”
“Why bother to involve her in this?”
Andre didn’t want to say anything more to Barney and stood up, “You don’t have to see me off, bye.”
What has been said has been said and there is no need to go on.
Barney stood up and gave Andre a look, “I’m not like you, whatever the Brooks family is like, it has nothing to do with her.”
He never wanted to let Nellie into the old mansion.
Although Barney had turned a blind eye to the affairs of the old mansion over the years, he was in fact well aware of what the Brooks family was like.
Grandma already had a big problem with Nellie after that incident, but so what if that was the case?
Whatever the old mansion wanted to do to her, it would have to go through him first.
“Irrelevant or not, it’s not up to you, you’ve never had a woman you loved dearly before, so naturally you don’t know what’s in their hearts.”
“This time, even though it might just be an offer, you need to be clear about what that really means.”
Andre said it word for word.
But it made Barney’s face darken in this instant.
Indeed, just now Grandma appeared to be just giving Nellei an offer, but there was an unprecedented forcefulness in her attitude.
They would do everything they could to force Nellie back from his side.
Even if he didn’t agree to send Nellie back, then they must have other ways to do it, always defensible.
Andre, an outsider, had seen things so clearly, and he had seen so much since he was a child growing up in the Brook family.