Snare of Love
Chapter 396 Affection Can Be Cultivated

Jeffery Harris tried to convince Matthew Nelson, "Would I hurt you?"

"I've made my stand clear."

He squinted and stared at Jeffery. His pupils instantly glowed with a dangerous light.

"I don't need anyone who touches the person around me in the name of doing me good. Neither can you!"

"Are you really obsessed?" Jeffery clenched his fists, making a crackling sound as he clenched too hard.

Matthew gazed deeply at him, "I've always respected you and it's still the same now. If you let my wife go, I can ignore the past but if you insist, don't blame me for turning my back on you."

Jeffery widened his eyes incredulously with his hands over his heart, "You, you can leave me behind for a woman?"

"She's my wife." He said word by word.

"She's your wife, but she isn't of one mind with you!" Jeffery yelled, "Wake up, don't be deluded!"

"I'm incredibly awake to what I'm doing at this moment!" his handsome face was full of rigidity.

He turned around and left.

Jeffery looked at his determined back and he was agitated, "You can't save her. All the evidence will point to her."

He paused his movement. Jeffery thought that he was undermined and said, "If you promise to divorce, you won't lose anything. Chloe wasn't worse than her and her family background matches you better. I'm doing this for your own good. Even if you hate me, I can't watch you to get confused by a woman and can't tell right from wrong!"

He slowly turned back and looked at Jeffery silently without saying anything.

Jeffery froze for a moment, "Matthew ..."

He averted his eyes, walked steadily and pulled the door open to get into the car.

Jeffery took two steps backward and slumped in a chair.

His gaze just now was clearly...

He clutched the armrest tightly.

Eddie patted his shoulder, "Are you scared, old chap?"

Jeffery turned his head and looked at him, "I'm afraid that he is getting desperate ..."

"Are you afraid that he will have a showdown with you?" Eddie continued to say.

He kept silent as if he was acquiescing.

He was trying to force Matthew to give up Dolores Flores, but he didn't want to become enemy with him.

This wasn't his original intention.

Eddie comforted, "If he really cared about the woman, he would definitely compromise."

He calmed down himself. Indeed, Matthew didn't develop his strength over these years because Jeffery was the one who owned the power.

Boyce Shawn was able to go smoothly in the business field because of his connections.

Even if Matthew had the means, he wouldn't be able to save her.

"I'm with you. What are you afraid of?" he was confident.

The Harris family, the Chambers family and the Herbert family were the three major families in City B. It would be easy for them to convict a woman if they joined forces. Whoever killed a person had to pay with his life.

No matter how strong and resourceful Matthew was, he would be powerless in front of the evidence.

Chloe sat aside, looking at the empty courtyard and she seemed to be lost in thought.

She did have an interest in Matthew, especially when he had just faced a power stronger than himself, he could still remain unhurried.

Even if he was passive, he didn't show any timidity, but he showed the man's rigidity and kept calm when facing the situation.

He was dazzling as he owned everything which a woman desired.

She also knew that she wouldn't receive the deep love he had for Dolores even if Matthew agreed.

"Dad." She looked at him, "This matter ..."

"What are you afraid of with me and Jeffery around?"

He interrupted her.

"But..."

"We should go back now." He interrupted her daughter once again.

He was afraid that she would say something that would make Jeffery waver.

Jeffery's mood was now fluctuating and he sat in the chair motionless, "I won't walk you out."

Eddie was in uniform. Although he was about fifty years old, he was still fit as he and Jeffery had been in the army for most of their life. "Rest well. This isn't like you. When you were young, who were you afraid of? How come you're becoming more and more timid?" He sighed as he wasn't timid, but he was afraid of losing.

"He is the only child of Jolene Harris ..." He hesitated and stopped saying.

Eddie's gaze changed, soon he turned calm, placed his hand on his shoulder heavily and grasped it, "Call me whenever you want."

After finished saying, he stepped out of his house and Chloe followed behind him.

The adjutant opened the door for him, then he bent over and went in. She went into the car as well and she closed the door. "Drive." He instructed.

Soon the car started.

"Dad, why did you interrupt me just now?" she asked.

He had interrupted her twice on purpose obviously as he didn't want her to talk.

He leaned back in his seat with his eyes closed, "What do you want to say? Did you want to say that you won't marry?"

She lowered her head, "He seems to have great affection towards his wife. He won't love me if forcing him to give in." "Affection can be cultivated." He opened his eyes to look at her daughter, "Are you scared of this?"

"I..." She was unsure.

There had been quite a few types of men around her, none of them was whom she wanted to approach but she was afraid of."