Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 42

I was stunned.

At this time, my cell phone rang.

I lowered my head and looked at the caller ID, which was Seth Hyde.

I glimpsed at the time and found that it was noon now. Usually, if Seth was in the company, he would ask me to have lunch at this time.

I looked up at Patrick. Thinking of the orphanage just now, I didn't know how to answer Seth's call for a moment. So I muted it.

Patrick did not say anything else.

Only after Seth stopped calling me did I ask, "What do you want to do?"

"Nothing. It is just that Grandpa misses you," Patrick said flatly.

I didn't believe his words at all. I argued, "How could it be? Didn't you tell him that I killed Caroline's child and you wanted to divorce me?"

Patrick loved Caroline so much. And he was certain that she was framed by me.

He surely would have taken advantage of such a good opportunity.

I wasn't convinced by his words.

However, Patrick tilted his head and looked at me with a profound look in his eyes, "What Grandpa knows is that you went abroad for further study and just came back the day before yesterday. So he would like to welcome you back tonight."Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

His words stunned me for half a minute.

What did he mean?

In other words, Ned didn't know that I had gone to jail at all, right?

"Why?" I stared at Patrick in a daze, wondering what he was up to!

I felt more and more strongly that I couldn't understand him!

Patrick raised his hand and put his big palm on my hand, "I am a businessman. Keeping my words means the most to me. Since I promised you that I would let you be Mrs. Cowell, of course, I won't break my promise."

It was midsummer. But the moment he touched me with his hand, I felt cold and bone-chilling!

At this moment, everything I had gone through in the prison came to my mind!

How could I cooperate with the culprit who had killed my child?

How could I continue to be Mrs. Cowell?

"Mr. Cowell, forced love is not sweet. Since you love Caroline, why do you have to be entangled with me? I believe that as long as you tell your grandfather that I went to jail and harmed Caroline, he surely will no longer recognize me as his granddaughter-in-law."

In fact, I was reluctant to say that I hurt Caroline.

However, if I didn't admit it, I feared that I probably would be trapped by Patrick for the rest of my life and then I couldn't get rid of him anymore!

Patrick clenched my hand with his big palm. Then he leaned to one side and stared at me with a pair of deep black eyes. After that, he said word by word, "Isn't that too much of a favor for you?"

His words made me break out in cold sweat on my back.

I didn't want it!

I didn't want to be a toy in his hand!

"I'm not going!" I shook off Patrick's hand all of a sudden!

As I was about to open the car door and get out of the car, I heard Patrick behind me add, "The way you see it, how long will it take for me to ruin a small company like Glorious Seth Design?"

Hearing his words, I who had placed my hand on the handle of the car door, paused.

I suddenly realized that Patrick and Seth were not in the same class at all.

How could they have talked equally?

It turned out that the reason why Patrick had compromised that day was that he wanted to hold me tightly in his hands until my whole life was ruined! Only then would he be satisfied and let go!

However...

He hit right where I hurt.

Even if I could ignore the orphanage, I couldn't ignore Seth.

Seth was originally an outsider. I couldn't get him involved and destroy everything he had worked so hard to get!

I sat back in my seat and lowered my eyes. Then I made up my mind and said, "I'll go with you."