Patrick used a fork to poke the floating noodle cube and he suddenly thought of something. Then he immediately covered the lid.
After completing this act, he frowned with annoyance. 'Hadn't I woken up yet? How could I make such a small mistake?"
Subconsciously, he took a look at Amelia. Finally, Patrick knew what was wrong. From the moment he came downstairs till now, Amelia did not even spare him a word or a glance.
What was going on? Where had the women that beg for him to stay on the mountain gone to?
Patrick could not stand this and blurted out, "Hey, Amelia, you..."
Amelia drank the soup clean and put the bowl of instant noodles down. She felt alive after finishing it.
Seeing this, the question that Patrick was about to ask immediately became deliberate ridicule. "It's just a cup of instant noodles. Is it necessary?"
Amelia took out a tissue from a tissue box and wiped her lips which was feeling oily. Then she crumbled the tissue and threw into the instant noodles bowl. After that she got up and she was
going to throw the rubbish.
Seeing this, Patrick suppressed his anger and raise his head. "Amelia, couldn't you hear me talking to you?"
Amelia stood still, glanced at him and answered, "I heard you but I just didn't want to answer you."
"You!" Patrick sprang to his feet and stared straight into Amelia's eyes. "Have you forgotten who you belong to just because you've stayed with Ryan for one night?"
The two words "stayed with" shocked Amelia and she was caught off guard. She took a moment to calm down and asked with a blank expression, "Patrick, I have a question to ask you."
Seeing that Patrick did not reply, Amelia understood that he had acquiesced. She asked, "How did you leave the mountain last night? Did you walk?"
Patrick was amused when he heard that, "Do you think I will do that to myself?"
Amelia threw out another possibility. "Then how? Did you meet a kind-hearted driver along the way?"
"Why do you ask so much?" Patrick at first just wanted to tease her for being a busybody. Then her stubborn eyes made him tell the truth, "I called Charles to fetch me at the mountain."
Finally, she knew why she could not find him at the gate. It turned out that he had already gone with Charles. Not to mention that she even bothered the police. Thinking about this, she felt that it was really... stupid!
Amelia's throat was dry, maybe it was because she had added too much flavoring to her food. She touched her throat and squeezed out a sentence, "I understand now..."
"What do you understand?" Patrick was dumbfounded by her answer.
Amelia's gaze fell on him. She was laughing at herself for being a busybody to made a phone call to the police, "It would be better if you could answer my calls."
Thinking of the seven missed called, Patrick's face darkened. "I don't need to answer it. I know what you're going to do."
Amelia asked in a tone of consultation, "What did you think that I would do?"
"You just wanted me to go back, right?" Patrick insisted.
Except for this possibility, he could not think of a second one.
Thinking of Amelia's poor performance during the day when she climbed the mountain and the fact that she would rather stay in the tent provided by
Ryan without his acknowledging. It could be seen from these two points that she wanted to have a rest as soon as possible instead of following him.
The housekeeper asked in surprise, "Hey, Miss Amelia, don't you want to have some first? I remember that you love scallops."
Amelia laughed, "I just had some instant noodles. I don't want to eat anymore, I'll grow fat."
The maid shook her head, "No, Miss Amelia. Instant noodles is not nutritious and has high calories. You will gain more weight from having it."
"Really?" Amelia said perfunctorily, "Then I'll be careful next time. I'll go to bed first."
"Oh, alright." Seeing that she could not keep Amelia, the housekeeper could only sigh and turn around to enter the kitchen.
In the bedroom
Amelia lied in the hot bath tub. The hot water was like a warm hug wrapping her tightly. It made her feel drowsy.
An imaginary voice was whispering to her.
It was not until when the water was about to go over her head that Amelia suddenly woke up. She grabbed the edge of the bathtub with her hands and propped herself up, taking in large mouthfuls of fresh air.
Right at this moment, the water under her body was still hot because the bathtub had a constant temperature system. If she had not been submerged by the water, she might have been able to sleep in it.
Just as Amelia was asleep, the ringing of the phone could be heard from the pocket of the jacket that she had casually placed on the door. However, due to the fact that she was asleep and the jacket was at the other side of the door, the ringing eventually dimmed as the phone ran out of battery.
Downstairs.
Patrick, who was eating pasta, suddenly heard the doorbell ringing in his house. As soon as he lifted his eyelids, the housekeeper said, "Mr. Hopper, I'll open the door."
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