Given Aaron's current state, he was likely to start a fight with Josiah.
Taking another look at Josiah, I noticed that he was calm and composed and was turning a deaf ear to Aaron's warning. It was as if everything was under his control.
I instinctively shifted my gaze elsewhere. There were many customers in the coffee shop. It looked like they were just gossiping about us for causing a scene, nothing unusual about that.
Before they caused a ruckus, things were always exceptionally calm. Although we didn't know what Josiah was planning, acting on an impulse could lead to some bad stuff.
After thinking about this for a while, I reached forward to pull Aaron back down onto the chair.
Looking at Josiah, I forced out a smile and accepted his proposal, "You said that you'd file a lawsuit, didn't you? Fine. We'll agree to your condition. I'll tell you clearly right now, as Anne's biological father, you do have priority over custody of your child. As for my divorce, that is my disadvantage as a woman. I'm sure your lawyer had already told you all of this, right?"
After having his plan exposed, Josiah spread out his hands and admitted to it, "So what? People specialize. I'm a doctor, so I have to consult a lawyer about these things. To tell you the truth, I hired an incredibly prestigious lawyer. Arianna, I won't lose this case. I think you'd better turn a blind eye to this and stop preventing me from seeing Anne, or you'll regret it by the time my lawyer brings you to court."
"Hmph..." I couldn't help but sneer.
In that past minute, I had blurted out criminal law regulations without even arranging them in my head and rendered Josiah speechless. This was all worth the many hours of studying I had to go through.
Seeing that he was at a loss for words, I breathed out a sigh of relief.
What did I have to worry about? A person like him would have lost the right to become a father long ago. Being able to take Anne away from us was simply wishful thinking.
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