"Help me close it." Patrick Hopper said.
"Alright."
Amelia Ramsay's fingertip just tapped on the mouse's left key. However, before she used any strength, the soft key concaved.
Before that, Patrick had left his mouse cursor at the "unread emails". Then, a dozen emails popped into her Amelia's eyes at the same time because she accidentally clicked on it.
At first, she glanced at these emails inadvertently. However, her watery eyes locked at the screen when she saw the sender's name kept showing 'Sissi Roberts'.
Amelia felt that all the blood in her body rushed to the top of her head at this second. Her thoughts began to boil. She started to has lots of suspicions.
From the oversea letters, to the unopened parcels, then to the emails. Sissi always tried to make Patrick to remember her.
Did Patrick know about it?
No, he probably did not know. Otherwise, he would never allow her to touch the computer.
With a slight flash in her eyes, Amelia showed her delicate face from the computer and took a glance at Patrick.
When she noticed his normal looking expression, she rolled her eyes and turned her head. Meanwhile, she deleted Sissi's three emails by right-hand clicking on the mouse.
Huh... it was not enough for Sissi to send one email yet she sent three. How desperate was she trying to hook up with people's husband?
After despising Sissi in the bottom of her heart, Amelia clicked on a funny video and watched it.
She was not worried at all that Patrick would be furious at her after discovering that the emails had been deleted. Anyway, it was Sissi's fault. If he dared to be angry with her for Sissi, it meant that he still had Sissi in his heart. In that case...
Amelia unconsciously covered her hand on her lower abdomen and a confused look appeared in her eyes. If he did not want to commit, did she still want to have baby with him?
The bedroom was dead silent for a while except the noise from the computer.
Patrick felt lonely when he saw Amelia staring at the computer with her eyes fixed looking very fascinated. Then he shouted at her, "Have you finished?"
Amelia glanced at him from a distance when she heard his voice. Her eyes revealed some indiscernible illusions which made his heart inexplicably clenched as if he had done something wrong to her.
They looked at each other for a while. Just when he thought that she would say something, she calmly withdrew her eyes and focused on the computer again.
Patrick could not help but feel that something was not right. However, he could not come up with an explanation at the same time. His eyebrows furrowed in annoyance.
After tidying up his hair, he got up and took out a mobile phone from a suit jacket hanging on the hanger. He clicked on the album inside and countless photos of beautiful women popped out to his sight.
Patrick had categorized all the women as ordinary women except Amelia. He took a glance at Amelia's photos in the hospital at noon. He was in a good mood when he looked at them.
When Patrick enjoyed browsing the album, Amelia suddenly talked, "Where did you get the phone?"
Patrick reacted quickly. He looked up at Amelia who was confused and explained, "I just bought this phone recently."
As he spoke, he put the phone into his pants' pocket and acted as if nothing had happened.
Amelia tilted her head and said, "But why do I feel... that it's a little old."
The corners of Patrick's mouth twitched. "Is that so? Maybe I didn't notice when I bought it. The shopkeeper probably sold me a second-hand phone."
Amelia raised her eyebrows. Not to mention that the phone looked really old, it was strange that it was an unknown brand as well. When did Patrick downgrade himself to use a lousy phone after their nice couple phone?
Waiting...
When her hand was about to touch his pants, Amelia suddenly paused. If she looked at his phone without permission, did that mean that she would become someone like him? A stalker?
Amelia suddenly fell into a dilemma. At last, her reason got the head of her. She fell back to sleep and forced herself to close her eyes, ignoring it.
The more she thought, the more likely she would dream about it. After Amelia fell asleep, she dreamt that Patrick was using that lousy phone to send flirty messages.
"Sissi, I'll divorce that poor wife of my after you return."
"Sissi, I love you. I'm with Amelia just because I wanted to use her to give birth to a successor."
Suddenly, Amelia drenched in cold sweat and sat up from the bed. She felt a sharp pain in her chest and she gasped for air while covering her heart. She tried to relieve the pain that was from the dream.
Patrick was woken up by her movements. When he opened his eyes, he could still hear her gasping. He sat up and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling not well?"
Amelia's face stiffened when she heard his voice and she said in a hurry, "No, I just had a nightmare."
Patrick saw her putting her arms around her legs with a lingering fear in her heart. He stretched out one of his hands to hold her shoulders and used another hand to hold her head bringing her into his arms.
He said in an awkward but concerned tone, "Don't be afraid. I'm here."
Amelia could not help but want to laugh. Every time this man comforted her, he would only say this one sentence, but it always worked on her...
She closed her eyes and enjoyed the comfort that he gave her, as the heartache and uneasiness from the dream disappeared slowly.
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