Chapter 664
"You're back?" Patrick, who was waiting for the return of his prey behind the door, glared at Amelia's nervous
side profile and greeted her with a jumble of joy and anger.
Amelia turned her stiff neck toward Patrick and gave him a greeting out of guilt. "Hi... you are still not asleep
yet?"
Patrick leaned against the door frand looked down at her. "I can't sleep when you aren't home."
"Oh! I'm so touched!" Amelia pretended to wipe tears away from the corners of her eyes. How she hoped she
could squeeze out sdrops of tears to better suit the situation right now!
Scanning at her neat clothes and radiant face, Patrick ruled out the possibility that she was bullied or taken
advantage of outside. Then he asked coldly, "Don't be moved yet. Where have you gone so late at night?"
Amelia answered casually, "Nothing much. | just went to the hospital."
Patrick stepped forward, snaked his arm around her waist and pulled her towards him. He brushed her face with
his cold breath and said, "You're still lying
to me?"
"I'm not lying to you." Amelia added frantically, "If you don't believe me, you can ask Huxton."
"Why should | ask him about you?"
"Didn't he install a listening bug on me?"
"He's already asleep. And he doesn't care about what happened to you at all!"
She had been mentioning Huxton more and more in front of Patrick recently, so often that he was feeling vaguely
unpleasant about it.
"Then how are you so sure that I lied to you? Wait, | shouldn't have said that. It sounds like I really did lie to
you..." The second half of the sentence seemed to be aimed at herself.
"Are you an idiot?" On the topic of her situation outside, Patrick pinched her chin hard and grumbled angrily, "No
matter what your answer is, it doesn't change the fact that you just lied to me!" Amelia was enraged by his
scolding. She immediately put out a hand in front of him and said, "Okay then, you said I lied to you. Show me
the evidence!"
She could not figure it out. Why was Patrick saying she had lied to him for telling him she cback from the
hospital?
Patrick snorted, "I wanted to give you a chance to confess, but you don't seem to appreciate it!"
Amelia raised her eyebrow in confusion. "I..."
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtPatrick interrupted her with an air of impassivity. "My men toldyou went to the police station where Daniel
was at! It feels good to sneak out and meet your former lover without telling me, doesn't it? And weren't you so
happy that you even forgot to go home?"
Amelia was caught by surprise and asked, "Just how many men do you have? How can you findwhenever no
matter where | am?"
Patrick was looking so bleak that he was frightening. "Don't change the topic! Tell me! Did you act so out of
character tonight because of Daniel?"
She had lied to him, telling him she did not know how to match her outfits for spring when he asked her why she
was sitting and dazing by the window. What infuriated him the most was that he had actually gobbled up the
childish reason she gave him!
How could he have believed in a lie so simple that it was just crude?
It was all because she had him wrapped about her finger, so he did not even think about scrutinizing the truth in
her words.
And as a result, just because of his split-second of relaxation, she had done something that he never expected!
At the thought that she was looking concerned by the window because she was thinking about Daniel's
imprisonment, something evil clawed from inside of Patrick's chest. He could not help but want to beat the jailed
Daniel up!
In the face of his harsh accusation, Amelia nodded gracefully and said, "Yes, | did go and see Daniel..."
Patrick's grip on her chin beceven more forceful, and Amelia endured the pain in her jaw, which felt as if it
was about to be ripped off her face, and explained, "But it was all because of Brittany! She sneaked out of the
house in the middle of the night just to see Daniel, but she tripped herself when she was running away from the
reporters. | hurried out only after | received the call from Aunt Alice." After a pause, Patrick's ominous voice
sounded again, "You were in such a hurry to find Daniel just because Brittany had tripped? That seems a little..."
Amelia looked straight into his eyes. "Farfetched! You mean to say that, don't you?"
Patrick gave a snort of contempt in reply.
Amelia sighed. "That's because you don't know how serious the fall was. | heard her lower body was bleeding out
heavily when she was sent to the hospital. And then when | saw her later in the operating room, she was lying on
the hospital bed, beggingto take Daniel to her. Her pride had diminished so much that even a beggar was
more dignified than her."
Patrick watched her closely. Should he believe her? Should he believe this flimsy lie?
He asked his heart and felt that Amelia's excuse was not convincing to him.
He slowly spoke what was on his mind, "With your relationship with Brittany, you wouldn't bat an eye even if she
died in front of your face. But now, you're willing to go to such lengths for her... | have no choice but to suspect...
you're harbouring ssort of selfish motive."
Amelia frowned. "Selfish motives? Are you referring tolooking for Daniel?"
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Patrick peered at her and said with disdain, "It's either you did it, or you did not. Plus, you have to be either
testingor did out of guilt to ask a question like that."
Amelia said helplessly, "Well, it makes sense too." Staying 'neutral' never worked on Patrick. What he wanted
was the ‘absolute’!
Patrick cast her a thoughtful look, "So, are you guilty, or...?"
Amelia laughed out loud as if he had just cracked a joke. "What's there to be guilty about when | went to see
Daniel's so frankly and righteously?"
Patrick said again, earnestly and tiringly, "You're still trying to defend your stance even at this point?
Admit it, you only left to see Daniel..."
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"Amelia Ramsay!" Patrick ordered with a stern look on his face. "Stop right there!"
He had not even finished what he had to say. Why was she leaving?
Amelia had already turned to leave for her room, but she regained her footing at the sound of his shout.