Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 216

I hesitated for a moment and picked up the call.

I spoke first, "Hello."

It was quiet on the over the phone. And no one spoke.

There wasn't even any sound in the slightest.

I said again, "Hello?"

No one spoke there.

Thinking that it should be a wrong call, I hung up the phone immediately.

That night, I sat on the sofa as usual, waiting for Patrick.

By the time I woke up on the sofa, I saw that the sun had completely risen outside the window and that the long- case clock was striking at 9 a.m. Then I felt a burst of loss.

Patrick's slippers were placed at the door, which was the same as they had been yesterday.

It showed that Patrick had never come back.

There wasn't even a single missed call on my cell phone.

"Where has he been? If he hadn't come back

before, he would at least have texted me. He has never been like this."

I called Patrick.

No one answered my call.

I was in a mess in my heart. I wanted to call Lisa, only to fear that she would stand up for me. What if Patrick indeed had an enemy? Would I drag her into this?

All day, I had been hesitant about whether I should continue to call Patrick.

Because my face was ruined, I even doubted if Patrick had disliked me.

I had never had a more difficult time than I did today.

However, at 9 p.m., unexpectedly, Patrick came back.

"You're back." I stood in the living room.

Unexpectedly, I was at a loss when I saw Patrick.

There were some snowflakes on his shoulders. I added, "Is it snowing outside?"

"Yeah."

Patrick changed his shoes aas he walked inside.

I thought he would go straight upstairs. But I didn't expect that he would come up to me and hugged me, "Sorry, I didn't contact you yesterday."

As I was in his arms, I found that besides the smell of tobacco, there was a faint perfume smell this time.

For some reason, I felt disturbed in my heart.

I couldn't help saying, "Can you give me Kelsi's number?"

"Kelsi?"

After hearing my words, Patrick seemed to be a little surprised.

He lowered his head and looked at me. And there was something profound in his dark eyes.

"Yes." In fact, to some extent, I wanted to see how Patrick would react.

Sure enough, he was a little surprised.

I, who had figured out how I should explain, said, "When my grandmother was ill last time, none of the Archer Family was willing to pay for her medical expense. So I sold my house. As a result, she happened to be the buyer of my house. Now that my grandmother passed away. The house is the only thing she left to me. I want to buy it back."

"It turns out it is so." Judging from Patrick's expression, he seemed to have let out a sigh of relief, "I'll help you talk to her."

"I'll talk to her by myself."

I said decisively.

I sincerely wanted to buy my house back. That was why I intended to go find Kelsi and ask her about what had happened between Patrick and her.

I was afraid that Patrick would lie to me.

Patrick hesitated for a moment. In the end, he found a number from his phone book and sent it to him.

As soon as I recorded the number, my cell phone screen lit up. This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

Lisa's name appeared on it.

"Hello."

"Charlotte Archer, Charlotte Archer, where are you? Come... Come and help me quickly!"

As soon as I picked up the phone, Lisa's sobbing voice rang over the phone.

I suddenly became nervous, asking, "What's wrong? Where are you? Say it slowly!"

"I'm outside the Macdonald's store near my house." Lisa's voice was trembling. She added, "I refused a pursuer before. I didn't expect that he would come to my house. I... you, come to me quickly, okay?"

"Okay, okay. Wait for me there. Don't move."

I felt a fit of panic in my heart.

I quickly rushed upstairs to get changed, rushed downstairs to the door, and put on my shoes. As I was about to go out, Patrick pulled my arms.

Then, I heard him say in a somewhat unhappy tone, "Where are you going?"

"Lisa is in trouble. I'm going to look for her."

I said without giving it a second thought.

"Will you go to find her by yourself?"

His words made me stunned.

Unexpectedly, from the beginning to now, I hadn't thought about talking Patrick there with me.

"Ah. It makes sense. I should bring Patrick along." As soon as I realized this, I immediately said, "Can you go there with me? Lisa met a pervert pursuer. She's out there alone. And it's snowing."

I nagged a lot of things .

Patrick said nothing. He changed his shoes and put on the clothes which he had just taken off. After that, he went straight outside to start his car.

I sat in the passenger's seat. And the perfume smell on Patrick's clothes was also looming here.

"Was Kelsi in this car before?"

Thinking of this, I felt a little depressed.

We drove for nearly half an hour before we arrived at the Macdonald's store nearby Lisa's house. As soon as I went over, I saw Lisa who was dressed in a red coat standing there.

She dressed quite beautifully. And her makeup was decent.

Most of the pedestrians coming and going were all looking at her.

"Lisa!" I ran to her and asked nervously, "What's going on?"

Lisa didn't look at me first. But she looked at the car behind me. After a moment of silence, she said, "Oh, I met a man on a flight before. He shamelessly asked me for my phone number. I refused. And for no reason, he got my phone number and found my address! I was almost raped by him!"

"Oh my god! Did you call the police?"

"Not yet! He was blocking me at the door of my house. I was scared to death!"

Lisa said with an exaggerated expression on her face.

I looked at her and felt that she didn't seem to be afraid at all...

Before I could say anything, Lisa pulled my arms and said, "Well, it's getting cold outside. Hurry up and get into the car."

"Alright."

At this moment, I seemed to have realized what Lisa was going to do.

However, regarding what Patrick had done, I dared not to ask him about it by myself. So I'd better make Lisa push him. It would be great if we could talk everything out.

When Lisa and I were heading in the direction of Patrick's car, a Land Rover sports car stopped behind us.

Before we could get in the car, a man got out of the Land Rover and waved at us, "Beauty Lisa!"

It was actually Roger!

At this time, Patrick also got out of the car.

The four of us stood together. Patrick said first, "I asked him to come. Isn't there something wrong with you, Miss Lisa? I think he is suitable to help you with many things."

Lisa had a gloomy look on her face at this time. She desperately wrapped herself in her clothes and said in a trembling voice, "I'm too cold. Can we talk somewhere warm?" "Okay!" Roger said to Lisa happily, "Come on.

Get in my car."

At this moment, Lisa seemed to be too embarrassed to get in Patrick's car. So she had no choice but to get in Roger's car.

Soon, Patrick drove us to a high-end hotel and booked a box.

The four of us went upstairs into the box.

The heating in the room seemed to have been on in advance. And I found it quite warm as soon as I walked in.

Lisa took off her coat, revealing her sexy long sweater inside, which made Roger stare at her in a daze.

Patrick and I sat on a two-seat sofa. Patrick put his hands on my shoulders with his legs overlapped. Then he looked at Lisa and said, "Miss Lisa, you, who act so hard, surely have something to say."