"Erine, calm down!" Matthew said.
There was a tinge of helplessness in his voice.
Erine wiped her eyes and said, "Sir, I'm serious. I have been hoping that you and Miss Whitlock will have a child. The hope that I had for the both of you is as much as how much I wished to have a grandchild. Now that my wish is granted, I can leave this world happily."
"Erine, don't talk nonsense," Selina added. "I'm still counting on you to take care of my child. You have to be healthy,"
"Yes, yes, the child!" Hearing Selina's words, Erine suddenly became energetic. "I asked my friends before on ways to take care of the child. Miss Whitlock, you can rest assured that I will be the best helper you could ever have."
A warmth arose in Selina's heart.
How lucky Matthew was to have such a good servant.
"Okay, Erine. That's a deal."
The next day, Matthew left after having breakfast with Selina.
Now that Selina was pregnant, he wanted to spend more time with her, but he wanted to find out Lothar's whereabouts as well.
He knew that what Selina was worried about the most right now was Lothar's whereabouts. He had to take care of this matter first.
In the afternoon, Matthew received a call from Tobias.
Tobias's voice was deep and gruff, "Matthew, are you investigating that man too?"
"Yes," Matthew said in a forthright manner.
"Do you have any clues?"
"We've only found that Lothar was being deceived into entering a building through a phone call. A car then took him to the abandoned factory. We don't know anything else for now."
After all, it was impossible to find so many clues in such a short time.
"Matthew, there's no need to investigate," Tobias suddenly said.
Matthew's heart sank.
"He's gone?"
"Yes."
"What happened?" Matthew's brows furrowed deeply.
"I found the witness. He saw someone carrying a sack out from the abandoned factory. The sack seemed to carry a body. Someone then threw the sack into the sea."
Matthew was stunned.
"Can we find the corpse?"
"I'm afraid we can't. It may have sunk into the ocean or got eaten by sharks."
Matthew hung up.
His thoughts were a little muddled together.
He had only interacted with Lothar a few times so his impression of Lothar was neither good nor bad.
However, he knew that Lothar and Selina shared a close relationship.
Of course, their relationship was not a romantic one but a platonic one.
He didn't mind the friendship between Selina and Lothar at all.
Now, Lothar was dead.
He could imagine how heart-wrenching it would be for Selina when she found out about the news.
How was he going to explain it to her?
After thinking about it for almost an hour, Matthew made a selfish decision that he had to keep it a secret from Selina.
After returning to the Perry family villa, Selina asked Matthew about Lothar.
Matthew said that he had not found anything new yet.
Selina's face darkened at once.
Matthew comforted her, "Don't worry. Lothar is a man after all,"
Selina bit her lip, "I'm really afraid Reid will do something merciless to Lothar and he would..."
Her words were stuck in her throat.
She was afraid that what she said would become true.
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