Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 103

It was clear that Patrick was stunned when he saw me.

"Who were you talking to?"

At this moment, I couldn't think of anything else. I only felt that Patrick was talking to someone over the phone about Seth's mother.

As far as I was concerned, the woman he had mentioned over the call was me.

However hard I tried to be disguised, I couldn't even pretend that nothing had happened.

"It's okay. It's about the company's business." Patrick was indeed such a good actor.

He immediately regained his composure and walked toward me with a faint smile on his lips.

I took a step back and thought of how I had trusted him during the day. It was so ridiculous of him to think of different ways to get away with it despite the fact that the evidence was conclusive!

"Patrick, I'm by your side now. If you hate me, we can go to hell together. Never should you

implicate innocent people in the future," I said word by word, looking up at him with an overwhelmingly indifferent expression on my face.

After that, I turned around, intending to leave.

Patrick grabbed hold of me and said with a serious look, "What's wrong? Weren't you fine before?"

"Patrick Cowell, didn't you ask me why I didn't go abroad with Seth? Now I can tell you why. It is because of Seth's mother, who was suddenly fired by her company. And her son was going abroad with me. So she couldn't bear the pressure and committed suicide. So we didn't leave."

Originally, I didn't want to tell Patrick about it. But now, I had to say it.

Patrick stood where he was and looked at me with an inquisitive look in his deep eyes. It seemed that there was a glimmer of injury in his eyes. Then he frowned deeply and asked me, "Do you suspect that I did it?"

"Who else could it be?"

Hearing my question, Patrick had a helpless look on his face as he told me word by word, "If I didn't want you to leave, with a phone call from me, you couldn't have got your visas done. How come I needed to spend a lot of effort to make a move on his mother? And I can't do such a despicable thing."

I was a little hesitant.

Because Patrick was right.

Patrick looked at me and knew that I didn't believe him. Then he said coldly, "At that time, I had decided to let you go. I didn't do anything else. As for whether you believe it or not, it's up to you."

After that, he changed into casual clothes and went out.

He didn't say anything else to me.

As I stood there and looked at the empty room, I was at a loss for a moment.

"Am I wrong again?"

I walked to the windowsill where Patrick had talked over the call and looked at the lamps and candles of myriad families before my eyes, feeling a little lost for a moment.

I picked up my cell phone and fliped through the phonebook. Finally, I called Lisa.

Fortunately, the call was connected.

As soon as she picked up the call, she asked, "Every time you call me, you are surely caught up by something. Tell me, what's wrong with you again?"

"Where are you, Lisa? Are you in City Y? I want to talk to you."

Now, I was so confused that I couldn't talk it out with Lisa by saying a few words to her on the phone.

Lisa said happily, "I'm at home. I just came back this afternoon. You can come to my house. It happens that you can help me cook some food. Hehe."

I turned around and glimpsed at the floor-to-ceiling clock in the living room, seeing that it was already past 9 p.m.

"How come you haven't eaten anything at such a late hour? It's not good for your stomach," I couldn't help but say.

"Yes, yes, yes. Come on, baby."

After Lisa finished speaking, she made a kissing sound over the phone.

About half an hour later, I arrived at Lisa's house by a car.

Her family was as messy as usual.

But, I didn't clean up her house this time. Instead, I went to the kitchen to help her cook first. However, as soon as I opened the refrigerator, a foul smell came out. And water flew out of it.

I tilted my head and glimpsed at the plug next to the refrigerator. The poor plug was lying quietly on the ground.

I couldn't help complaining, "Are you sure you want to cook with the ingredients in the refrigerator?"

Lisa came over and saw the messy scene in the refrigerator. Then she patted her forehead and said, "I stayed here for a day only when I came back last time. And I forgot to insert the plug of the refrigerator into the socket."

"I'll clean up the refrigerator for you."

"No need, no need. Let's go out to eat. I'll hire someone from a housekeeping company to clean it up tomorrow."

Lisa wanted to pull me out. But I got a mob and cleaned up the dirty water on the ground.

I was brought to a spicy-hot-pot store near her house. The facade of this store was very small. And all the tables were placed outside.

The owner was an old lady.

Because it was in early spring. The weather was very cold at night. So there wasn't any guest at all.

As soon as Lisa entered the store, she greeted the granny warmly. Then she held a plate and began to pick the ingredients familiarly.

Then she took two bottles of beer and asked me to drink with her.

It was probably because the atmosphere over the hot-pot dinner was very good that I sat there and told her a lot of things which had happened recently.

I told Lisa that I was separated from Seth and that after hitting Caroline, I returned to Patrick's side.

Lisa heard me out carefully and sighed softly, "In fact, it's good. In fact, marriage is a lifetime affair. Regarding Seth, you only want to repay him. And it isn't fair to him."

I lowered my eyes and became silent.

In fact, Lisa was right.

"Later..." I planned to tell Lisa that what had happened to Seth's mother recently might have something to do with Patrick.

However, I, who probably was partial to Patrick in my heart, told her about the island first.

Hearing this, Lisa widened her eys as she said, "What? A private island?"

I nodded.

Lisa grabbed my hands and looked at me sincerely, "Dear Charlotte Archer, please do tell Patrick to take me there with you next time. I promise you that I won't be a third wheel. And I'll stay in my room as well as the beach in front of me every day. I won't go anywhere else!"

With this, she raised her hand again, trying to raise her three fingers. But she couldn't do so because of the physical limitation. Even so, she added, "I swear!"

Originally, I was a little gloomy. But now, I was amused by her teasing.

"Okay, okay. I'll take you there with me next time. Even if you're on a business trip abroad, we'll go there and pick you up first."

"That is how my bestie should do!" Lisa raised the glass in front of her and said, "I'll toast first!"

After drinking, I finally told her about Seth's mother and Patrick.

What surprised me was that Lisa interrupted me as I was halfway done with my narration. She said, "Please, be sober. Patrick is the President of Towering High Group. No matter how shameless he is, he won't do anything to those who are old, ill, disabled, or weak."

Hearing her wods, I was silent all of a sudden.

"Is that so?"

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"But..."

"There are no buts. I am indeed not speaking up for him because of the island. I'm working in the first class now. And I had seen all kinds of rich people." Lisa said confidently, "Most of them are wearing masks and pretending to be kind. Even so, what they are thinking about in their mind will be reflected in their appearances. But for Patrick Cowell..."

"How is he?"

I, who was listening to her analysis with interest, saw that that she paused and asked immediately.

Lisa smiled and said, "When you were a child, you kept your eyes on him every day. So I also paid a little attention to him as well. Moreover, some things have happened recently. So, the way I see it, even if he is not a good person, he will never do such a dirty thing."

I wondered, "But... If it's not him, who can it be?"

Lisa thought for a moment and looked at me in a mysterious way, "Tell me, do you have other pursuers?"