He smiled, “Don’t worry, I’ve no covetousness to you. If you’re really afraid that I’ll bug you again, I’ll go and you stay here.”
He took off the napkin, put down the knife and fork and stood up, “You sit down and eat. In order to reassure you and let you eat at ease, I’ll go first.”
After finished saying that, he beckoned Dolores, “I’ll leave first.”
Dolores couldn’t say anything but could only watch.
After he left, she pulled Theresa and told her to sit down.
Even if they had sat down, they couldn’t have their meal too. She handed a tissue paper to her, “Just cry if you want. Maybe you’ll feel better after that.”
Matthew and Oscar left while Dolores caught a glimpse at them and didn’t ask anything as she thought they probably felt it was inappropriate to be there.
In fact, apart from this reason, there was also something Matthew wanted to say with Oscar.
Last time Oscar did him a favour, but both of them were busy and had no time to sit down and talk properly.
After this incident, Matthew knew that Dolores’s father wasn’t simple in the past, otherwise this relationship wouldn’t exist.
Although he didn’t do anything, the clues he provided were indeed commendable. After all he couldn’t even look into things in the remote past.
“Did it go well?” he asked.
When he didn’t grin cheekily, he gave other a bluffing impression, which was the kind of person who would make the children cry when looking at him.
However, he was an approachable person when he grinned and didn’t act seriously.
He was rarely unsmiling as he mostly grinned and laughed.
Matthew said, “The task force has been set up to investigate. The case will certainly be strictly investigated as it had turned into such a big deal.”
Oscar nodded, “Just tell me if you need help.”
In his opinion, Matthew wasn’t an outsider as Dolores’s husband would be her brother’s son-in-law.
Matthew didn’t want to trouble him much and it was enough for now.
“I’ll take Theresa back first.” Dolores came over. She couldn’t eat anything here and it wasn’t the right place to sit for a long time. As Theresa didn’t want to return to villa, Dolores took her outside for a walk.
Matthew said, “Let me accompany you.”
He was worried about her and afraid that she would be too tired as she was pregnant and still had to take care of Theresa.
Right now, Theresa certainly didn’t want too many people around, so she refused, “We’re not going home now, we might walk around outside. I’ve booked a room for uncle in the Narada Hotel. You fetch him over to have a rest.”
She initially planned to let him live in the villa, but there was no more room as all the rooms were used by two maids, Jayden Nelson, Victoria Forbis, Theresa and the children. The rest of the rooms were the utility room and study room but they couldn’t be cleaned up, so she booked a nice hotel.
Oscar waved his hand, “Tell me the place, I’ll go myself. I’m not young now, there’s no need for you to fetch me there and treat me like a child.”
She smiled, “Uncle, you didn’t eat well in noon, order something to eat in the hotel if you’re hungry. I’ll prepare a feast for you tonight.”
“Don’t worry, I can take care of myself, you go and take care of Theresa. You guys just do your own things. Don’t worry about me.” He seemed to get along all right anywhere, “Just tell me the address of the villa, I’ll go there by myself at night.”
His character had always been like this. After Dolores told him the address, she left with Theresa.
As for whether Matthew drive Oscar, or he returned to the hotel on his own, she had no idea.
“Let’s watch a movie, okay?” she said.
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