Sheriff Chandler frowned strangely, as if he didn’t understand Colonel Mel’s excitement.

“Yes Colonel, I forgot to tell you, your wife is indeed pregnant.” Sheriff Chandler said softly.

Colonel Mel seemed to realize that his behavior was out of line. He took a deep breath and tried hard to restrain the expression on his face.

“This.. This is really great.” He lowered his head and looked at Mrs Mel who was in his arms. Although his face had regained his usual calmness, there was a touch of tenderness in his eyes.

Evan stood behind and frowned as he watched. He seemed to have seen such an expression somewhere before. He turned his head to look at Duke Wilson and then suddenly froze. Yes, he has indeed seen such an expression before. He bent the corners of his lips.

Duke Wilson noticed the change in his expression and gave him a strange look. Evan shook his head slightly, turned his face and continued to look at the scene in front of him.

Mrs Mel also looked back at Colonel Mel, but there were tears in her eyes, as if she had a lot of grievances to tell.

The interaction between this husband and wife completely stunned the traditional Sheriff Chandler. He didn’t understand why Mrs Mel, who had been betrayed, treated Colonel Mel so tenderly. He didn’t understand Colonel Mel either. Since he cared so much about Mrs Mel, how could he do such a thing?

Evan’s expression was very flat, but there was a trace of coldness in his eyes as he watched the two people hugging and crying in the hallway.

After a long time, Mrs Mel’s emotions finally calmed down and the two of them approached the living room. Colonel Mel’s face still had a trace of embarrassment, but Mrs Mel was like a happy bird at this time, instructing the butler and servants to serve food and black tea to Colonel Mel.

Sheriff Chandler’s face had been ugly. Mrs Mel’s behavior seems to be saying that he abused Colonel Mel while he was in custody.

Colonel Mel immediately stood up straight the moment he saw Duke Wilson and he seemed a little nervous.

“Your..Your Excellency the Duke.” His voice was not as loud as usual, but rather hoarse.

Duke Wilson nodded with a cold face and didn’t say much, which was also one of the required conditions for him to watch this interview.

After everyone sat down in the living room, Sheriff Chandler couldn’t wait to open up the topic.

“Colonel Mel, look at your current situation. You already have a child who needs your upbringing. I know you must be hiding something, but it’s a dead end for you now. If you don’t say it again, your child will become an orphan, are you willing to cause such a result?”

Sheriff Chandler said earnestly, but when he said ‘orphan’, Mrs Mel shivered and tightly hugged Colonel Mel’s arm. Colonel Mel patted the back of Mrs Mel’s hand with a little embarrassment, and nodded to Sheriff Chandler, “I know your kindness, it’s just me..”

“Oh, Charlie!” Mrs Mel said as she looked up at Colonel Mel’s face in pain, she said in a low voice, “Just tell what you know, I’m really..really scared..”

Colonel Mel looked down at Mrs Mel. She was completely different from usual at this time, like a girl who was acting like a baby to her lover, with light tenderness exuding from the corners of her eyes and brows, “I understand.” He patted Mrs Mel’s hair, and when he raised his head again, his expression became firm.

“Sheriff Chandler.” He pursed his lips, as if he had made some huge determination, “I didn’t want to say these things at first, but now I feel that I have to say them but some things are somewhat involved like the Duke Wilson’s secret and now the Duke of Wilson is here, so I want to ask for your permission.”

After speaking, he looked at Duke Wilson expectantly and Duke Wilson frowned slightly, looked at the curious Sheriff Chandler, then stared closely into Colonel Mel’s eyes. Is he really going to tell the things he has done for him?

No, he wouldn’t be so stupid, he would still die if he said those things, but now that he was on the end of his rope, the idiot Mel actually threw the problem on the surface! Especially..especially..he glanced at Evan who was sitting next to him with clear eyes.

Duke Wilson was very angry in his heart, but in such a situation, he must not get angry, otherwise he would have confirmed a certain conjecture, so he held back his anger and suppressed it.

“You can say whatever you want. There is nothing more important than your life right now.” Duke Wilson clenched his fists tightly and said.

Colonel Mel smiled at the Duke, turned his head and looked at Sheriff Chandler again and said softly, “Since the Duke has agreed, then I will tell you about the matter.”

As Evan watched this, there was already a bit of coldness in his heart, he twirled the corner of his clothes with his fingertips and forced himself to listen to what Colonel Mel was going to say.

“You keep asking me if I’m hiding something.” Colonel Mel’s tone was slightly low, as if with some special emotion, “Actually, it’s not that I want to hide something, but that I don’t want to think about it. Now it seems that I have to say all these things.”

Speaking of which, he looked at Evan, as if there was no sign and just looked straight at him.

Evan’s heart jumped and a bad premonition rushed up in his heart immediately.

“Reverend Bruce, you have always been an upright and noble gentleman in Delanlier. I admire you very much, and I am also very grateful for your help to me, but..” He pondered for a moment.

Evan frowned. There are absolutely no good words behind this.

“But I have to say.” Colonel Mel finally said, “Your disguise is really excellent.”

He was so straightforward that everyone was taken aback by his words, Duke Wilson’s response was even more intense as he stood up directly from the sofa, looking at Mel fiercely, without hiding it at all.

Mel saw him like this, smiled and waved his hands, “My lord, don’t worry, after you finish listening to my words, you will have time to react.”

Duke Wilson’s expression did not ease because of this, he looked at Mel with a cold expression, as if looking at a dead person, but Mel still looked gentle, as if he didn’t feel anything.

The atmosphere became deadlocked.

At this moment, a warm hand pressed against the back of the Duke’s hand. The Duke’s body trembled slightly, and then a gentle voice came from behind.

“Charles, don’t get excited. I believe Colonel Mel will be responsible for what he said.”

Evan’s eyes were still as gentle and compassionate as ever. He looked at Colonel Mel as if he was looking at a naughty child. There was no impatience, just patience and calm.

Colonel Mel moved the corners of his mouth, but in the end he didn’t say a word.

As for Duke Wilson, he had already been softened by Evan’s few words. He was obediently dragged by Evan to sit on the sofa and his face was much more relaxed than before.

Sheriff Chandler breathed a sigh of relief as if he had escaped a catastrophe. He glanced at Evan. He hadn’t realized before that Evan had such a great influence on Duke Wilson.

“Of course, Reverend Bruce, I will be responsible for my words.” Colonel Mel said dryly.

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head, pondered for a moment and finally spoke again, “Although Reverend Bruce seems to be a noble and pure priest, no matter how you deal with Alia,” When he mentioned Alia, Dr. Hester who had come for a follow-up visit, raised his head. “It’s still thanks to that respectable Mr Ford, that makes me think that you are someone who deserves my attention, when everyone is standing on the opposite side of you, it seems that you are so vulnerable, you don’t even need to make a move, others will help you solve all difficulties. Maybe if it happened once or twice I would think it was nothing, but it’s always this way, it made me understand that you are not as innocent and harmless as you show.”

While speaking this long paragraph, Mel kept staring into Evan’s eyes, as if looking at a prey, with a cautious and sharp expression.

Evan’s expression didn’t change at all, he was still so kind and gentle. When Mel said the last sentence, he smiled, “Actually, it’s not just you, sometimes I myself will thank God. His love for me has enabled me to get rid of these events of bad luck.”

Colonel Mel smiled sarcastically, “Oh, my dear priest, this has nothing to do with God. You can get to where you are today, it’s all the result of your own hard work.”

The irony was so sharp that Sheriff Chandler frowned, “Colonel Mel, this time you did a lot of work for Reverend Bruce, how can you slander him so much? He, we want to find the murderer this time, please stop talking about irrelevant topics.”

The words of Sheriff Chandler finally made Mel look serious and he looked straight at Evan as he spoke with a very firm tone, “You have been asking me before, who can know the relationship between me and Eliza, so I will tell you today. During the course of my relationship with Eliza, I almost exhausted all my means to prevent this relationship from being known by the public, everyone here, I am afraid that even the Duke did not know, but there is one person that you have been ignoring from beginning to end and that is Reverend Bruce! I swear to God, the only one who knows this Reverend Bruce. He is the only one who can do this!”

Mel’s words shocked almost everyone, and what he said was indeed true, among so many people present, only Evan had been hinted before that. But..But no one has ever associated Evan with this matter, this is really..

“Nonsense!” Duke Wilson finally couldn’t stand Mel’s slander of Evan and stood up from the sofa, “How dare you! How dare you!!” He pointed at Mel with trembling fingers, his eyes were red as if he was already out of breath.

Mel still looked leisurely and he glanced at Sheriff Chandler who had a livid look on his face and Evan with a calm expression beside him, and continued, “I have never doubted Reverend Bruce before, but a few days ago I heard that Reverend had someone visit the monastery where Eliza lived, and I understood that you are not someone who can be trusted. Because you have never told anyone about this from the beginning to the end!”

Evan’s eyes finally turned cold at this time. What Mel said was right, he did ask his enthusiastic cook, Mrs Haydn, to visit Eliza in the monastery before he left. It was just his own ridiculous sympathy and he had completely forgotten about it afterwards, but at this moment it became a sharp weapon to criticize him.

“Our venerable and noble priest, he just wanted to climb up to the duke from the beginning and make the duke his personal property, so Ederson, the innocent Alia and I can’t exist, we all have to disappear. So everyone who is close to the Duke, no matter who they are, except Reverend Bruce, is plagued by bad luck. If it’s just one person there’s no problem, but then, after so many people, can’t we see the problem?”

Mel seemed to have gained some power at this time, stood up from the sofa, looked straight at Evan, his eyes were full of anger.

Evan looked at him, but his heart was peaceful and he even had the time to think about it. Finally, a flaw was revealed in this matter.

He slowly stood up from the sofa. The living room, which looked warm and peaceful at first, finally turned into a battlefield at this moment.

“Although what you said is a bit far-fetched, it also makes some sense.” Evan said calmly, “But I want to ask you, when that poor Sister Eliza died, I was not in Delanlier, how did I do it?”

When Evan said this, he noticed a sly smile on Colonel Mel’s mouth. It was so weak but it made Evan’s heart tremble.

T/N: What the!? I am shocked That was a major twist

Mel sure has a lot of guts. He isn’t even scared that Charles could kill him.

Sorry this chapter came late