I am here to help (5)

Ignoring the looks Daniel moved back to Abigail and leant down and loudly whispered to her, wanting her adoptive parents to hear "My apologies Abigail, but I may have to leave at short notice."

Taking the hint Abigail smiled gently and said, "What is it?"

"Just one of my stupid uncles.  He begged me to head up a international collaboration for Wu Enterprises.  I resisted for a period as the last time I trusted him to handle a significant collaboration on his own three years ago he screwed up and it took six weeks to fix.  I was worried that history would repeat itself, but my other uncles eventually convinced me to give him another chance."

"I sense an 'and' there."