Isadora's heart sank. She originally hated Holden very much. Holden seemed to be a young man from a rich family and a completely incapable man, who got everything without even working for it. Also, as Malvolio wanted to occupy the island, he had always been thinking of killing Holden to prevent all future troubles. However, in three days, Isadora had changed her mind about Holden.
Holden was locked in the inner room, but he had heard Isadora sorrowfully recounting everything in her past in front of Sabrina. When Isadora sent breakfast to Holden the morning of the following day, Holden suddenly asked, "Will I definitely die?"
Isadora nodded coldly. "You will not live! However, you also will not die now. You seem to still have some effect on your brother, so we will use you as a bargaining chip to blackmail your brother. However, you will definitely die in the end. My brother will not let you live." 1
Holden laughed lightly. "Got it."
Isadora was speechless. Seeing Holden's very calm expression, Isadora did not know what to say.
"You're a pitiful girl," said Holden faintly.
"What do you mean?" Isadora asked defensively.
"Since I am going to die no matter what anyway, I'll tell you something. I still have a savings of ten million dollars in a bank in Yaclary, which is kept as a college fund for my niece, Minerva Holden. If I die, then my niece will not get a single penny of that money. Go and take the money out, and if you want to give half of it to my niece, then you can just do it. If you don't want to give it to her and take it as your own, I also can't help it. I just wanted to tell you that you are only thirty years old and you still have a great life ahead of you. Just wash your hands of this life of crime. Take that money of mine, go to a college abroad, find a stable job, get married, and have children. It's still not too late."
Isadora had never expected that a prisoner would say such a thing to her. She looked at Holden with a cold expression. "Are you trying to please me? Are you bribing me? Do you want me to spare your life?"
Holden's expression turned cold. "Take it or leave it!" "What?" Isadora did not understand what she heard. "Get lost!" Holden no longer responded to Isadora anymore.
Isadora did not move. After a while, she said, "I'm sorry."
Holden was still ignoring Isadora.
"I...I want to know why you are still treating me like this when my brother is going to kill you?" asked Isadora, biting her lips. Then, she blushed. She had a thought for just a moment that Holden liked her, but she denied that thought immediately after that because Holden loved Sabrina deeply.
Seeing that Holden did not answer her, she asked once again, "Can you tell me why you are treating me like this? I am an ordinary person. I am already going t o kill you, but you still treated me like this, so I can't help but be suspicious of your motives. I hope you can understand."
Holden sighed lightly. He did not even look at Isadora. "Because I heard of your tragic experiences in your childhood and in your youth."
Isadora was speechless.
"Nobody is born as a bad person. You clearly had an incomparably rich father, but you never got to live a single happy day in your life, and you were even sent t o the side of a seventy-year-old man by your own biological father. You had never gone to school ever since then, right? You have been following your brother to wander the whole world, right?
"From the time when you told Sabrina about your life, I could tell your sorrow and your yearning. I am going t o be a dead man anyway, so it's also good to fulfill your wishes. That money is just sitting in the bank if I just let it be there, so you take it. If you can live a normal life from now, no longer need to wander around, could get married and have children, spend your life together with your children, and also love your children, then that money is considered not wasted. It will be considered to be of use."
He was no longer looking at Isadora. He closed his eyes and went to sleep.
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