In the car.
Charles could not help but ask curiously, "What's wrong with you? Why are you at Mount Logan in the middle of the night?"
Patrick's cold eyes turned away from him. It was obvious that he did not want to talk about it.
Charles curled his lips dully. "What's wrong? We've been brothers for so many years. There's nothing you can't tell me."
"It's hard to talk to anyone about love," Patrick thought as he purses his lips.
Patrick remained silent and Charles was not bothered. Then he asked another question, "Where should we go now?"
"Back to the Land of Fragrance." To be honest, he did not care about the scenery of Mount Logan at all. If it were not for Amelia...
Patrick's expression turned gloomy at the thought of Amelia. Since she was being so kind to Ryan, she could stay with him for as long as she wanted to.
At one o'clock in the morning, Amelia refuses the
Fynn's family offer to take her in and was sent down the mountain by them.
Although Fynn's grandfather guessed that Patrick might have used the shortcut but Amelia had taken a ride down from the mountain. Maybe she would have gone down earlier than Patrick and she could have waited for him at the only exit!
Amelia's idea was right but Patrick always did something beyond her imagination. If he had walked down the mountain, she could have blocked him. But he had taken a sports car down from the mountain, which was much faster than a van, and he took a shortcut as well. Therefore, he had left long before Amelia reached the exit.
With such a simple idea in her mind, Amelia waited for another hour. She started to panic. She tried her best to contact Patrick to make sure he was safe!
But Patrick was almost home. When he saw her cell phone number, he frowned and blacklisted her number.
Amelia who did not know that Patrick had dragged her into his blacklist was still trying her best to call him...
After failing to get in contact with Patrick for some time, Amelia was disturbed by her imagination of some movie scenes that led to terrible endings. She bit her lip and dialed 911 on the phone.
As soon as the call was answered, Amelia said immediately, "Hi, two or three hours ago, my husband and I were lost in Mount Logan. I need your help to search for my husband!"
The policemen just showed lack of concern by saying "He has to be missing for twenty-four hours before we could file a case."
In the end, only when Amelia shouted, "He's Owen Hopper's brother!" then the police paid attention to her words. "So it was Mr. Patrick who went missing? Where did you say he got lost? When did he get lost?"
Right now she knew that the one on the phone was not listening to her at all.
After complaining in her heart for a while, Amelia repeated her words patiently again.
"Okay! Mrs. Hopper, I have noted down everything you've said. If it's convenient, can you please not leave the scene first? We may need your help halfway."
Amelia exhaled a puff of air and said. "Okay."
After the call, Amelia felt relieved. She did not want to go through such trouble. But Patrick was alone in this snowy mountain with a bad environment, she was really worried about him!
As for Patrick who was being worried about, he had taken a step out from Charles' car, opened the door, and then walked into his cozy house.
He clicked on the phone screen and saw that he had seven missed calls from Amelia. His expression became subtle.
Why wasn't this woman asleep at all at this late hour. Was she trying to call him and ask him to go back?
With a sneer, Patrick took off his cotton-padded jacket and went back to the bedroom. He took a hot bath and forced himself to sleep without thinking about anything.
Upon hearing this, Amelia immediately lifted her heavy eyelids, she stared at the policewoman's eyes and asked, "How could this be?"
The policewoman pursed her lips and said, "According to our analysis, Mr. Patrick may have already gone down the mountain. Mrs. Hopper, did you miss the chance to meet him?"
Amelia was stunned for a moment, then she bowed her head and looked for her cell phone. "Give me a minute, I'll call him."
The policewoman waited quietly at the side.
A few seconds later, Amelia took the phone off her ear and said with a wry smile, "His phone is dead."
"Is it out of battery?" The policewoman thought for a while and said, "Mrs. Hopper, it might be you cared too much that you confuse yourself. According to your tone, it's not a coincidence that you and Mr. Hopper got lost isn't it?"
Lying in front of the police was undoubtedly a very stupid thing to do. Amelia said honestly, "Well, there was a bit of an unpleasant quarrel between us."
The policewoman nodded and said doubtfully, "So, we can't be sure if Mr. Patrick's cell phone is dead or
he switched it off."
Amelia opened her mouth, only to find that she could not make any sound.
If Patrick deliberately turned off his phone, where was he now? Did it mean... that he had already left Mount Logan?
Could it be possible? How could he walk so fast?
Or did he encountered what she encountered? Did a kind-hearted driver drove him down the mountain halfway?
Amelia pressed her temple, which was a little aching, after thinking for a while, she thought it the best if she could confirm it. "Madam I'll call again to see if he's home." "Okay." The policewoman replied.
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