Alice looked at Edward with a naive look on her face, her eyebrows and eyes were full of anxiety and reluctance.

She couldn't bear to leave Shirley, nor did she want her younger brother to leave.

Because of the lack of maternal love, she always felt that as long as her father and Aunt Shirley were together, they would be together forever and would become a family.

After hearing Alice's words, Edward really didn't know how to answer Alice, let alone whether Alice could accept such a result after telling the truth.

But as Shirley said, hiding it may not be a good thing!

Shirley will never come back in the future, nor will she be with them. So since that's the case, why give her hope?

"Alice, you heard from your father that there was a big change in Aunt Shirley's family, so she had to go back to deal with it and would not come back in the future. Do you understand?" Edward reached out and touched his daughter's tender face. "Aunt Shirley, it's not your mommy. She won't always be with us father and daughter. Dad will be with you in the future, okay?"

The little girl's mind is generally simple. How can she let go of what she has already obtained?

During this period of time, she had long regarded Shirley as her mother and had become accustomed to this way of getting along. Why did she have to change and why?

"No, I don't want it, I don't want it, Aunt Shirley said that she will always be with me. She said, why do you have to leave and separate? I don't want it, I don't want it-"

Alice roared crying, her voice hoarse. No matter how Edward coaxed her, she was still crying, holding Edward's hand, "Dad, let's go find Aunt Shirley, okay? Let's go find her now."

Seeing Alice like this, Edward couldn't help but sigh, reach out to hold Alice in his arms, patted her back with his big palm, "Alice, don't do this, you are already a big girl, you should understand, many things are unacceptable to us, you have to get used to the sudden separation of anyone. Aunt Shirley is not your mother. She has her own children and her own family, and she has to be responsible. You can't ask her like this, do you understand?"

Hearing Edward's coaxing, Alice's crying became less and less, and her voice choked, "I know, but she promised me that she would be with Alice."

Edward did not answer the child, but just smiled, pulled her out of her arms, reached out to wipe her tears again, "Alice, daddy takes you back to Zurich, okay? We are not here anymore, okay?"

"When we go back to Zurich, can we see Aunt Shirley and my brother again?" Alice asked again in a low voice.

"I'll never see you again in the future. Alice, and then only dad and you will live in Zurich together. Dad has been with you all the time, watching my Alice grow up, study, go to college, fall in love and get married again, okay?" Edward said with a smile.
Chapter completed!