Merlin said awkwardly, “Aunt, to be honest, I haven’t figured out how I’m going to go back and explain to my wife and daughter why I ended up disappearing after my daughter sent me a text message to tell me that she was pregnant...”
Having said that, he also wanted to distract Lady Acker’s attention, so he asked Christian, “Christian, my wife should have looked for you, right? What did you tell her?”
Christian sneered twice and said, “What else could I say? I could only tell her that I was not sure either. Our benefactor specially instructed me not to tell your wife that you were dead but to tell her that you were missing or had eloped with another woman, but how could I have said that to her?”
Merlin sighed and said, “I’ll also have to think about how I’m going to explain things to them when I go back. The two of them will probably always have some doubts if there is no relatively perfect explanation for this matter...”
Christian thought for a moment and said, “Perhaps you can say that you found a place to relax because you were not in a good mood after being forced to retire early?”
Merlin said embarrassedly, “That is too irresponsible. If my daughter hadn’t told me that she was pregnant, I could still fool her by saying this, but the main point is that she told me that she was pregnant. She wouldn’t believe that I would end up looking for a place to relax because I was in a bad mood after she had told me about such a big and happy event...”
Christian smacked his lips and said, “Well, you disappeared for so many days without news, and it was also at the point when your daughter had told you about her pregnancy. I’m afraid there’s really no good solution if you don’t tell them the truth...”
The rest of the Acker family members were also a little worried for a while. They also understood Merlin’s family situation. His wife and daughter had lived apart from him all year round, and they had always been a little estranged.
What’s more, he had suddenly disappeared at a critical point. At the same time, he could not tell his wife and daughter the truth. This was indeed a tricky situation, and there was basically almost no good solution to deal with this matter properly.
Merlin certainly would not be able to escape his wife and daughter’s complaints when he got home.
Just as everyone was still worrying about this matter, Kathleen, who was aside, thought of something and said, “Chief Lammy, I have an idea. Why don’t you see if you can accept it?”
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