Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick) novel Chapter 690

Eve's odd behavior would throw the younger generation of the family into a state of chaos.

Therefore, instead of regarding Howard as a coward, Amelia felt that it would be more appropriate to describe him as sacrificing himself in exchange for the peace within his family.

Upon arriving at the supermarket, Amelia was responsible for pushing the shopping cart while Howard was lost staring at each of the signboard on top of him.

At the sight of this, Amelia smiled and said, "Dad, the fresh food department is on your left. Just follow me."

"Alright." Howard nodded in relief.

"Dad, is there anything that you are refrained from consuming?"

If it was in the past, Amelia could more or less tell his preference. However, since he had pledged himself to God, Amelia was not sure if his preference had changed.

Howard replied meaningfully, "The most important thing is your sincerity towards deities. It doesn't matter whether you've consumed meat or alcohol. Hence, I don't have anything in particular that I can't eat."

"Well, then I'll get some beef and pork. Um... I think some chicken will be good..."

Seeing that Amelia was engaged in picking stuff over the freezer, Howard began feeling bored.

He habitually put his hand behind his back and followed Amelia at her back as if he was supervising her work.

Amelia had came to realize this in a short while. She thought that she might be able to make use of Howard's help as she asked, "Dad, can I trouble you by asking you for some help?"

"Go ahead!" Howard replied without hesitation.

"Can you go and pick some shallots and garlic for me? I will need them for dinner later. Oh yeah, don't forget to bring me ginger too!"

"Shallots, garlic and ginger." Howard murmured to himself before he turned around to leave.

"Eh, dad!" Seeing that Howard was lost in direction, Amelia quickly pulled his arm and said, "Wet market is on your right."

Howard sighed, "I had not been out for quite some time. It seems like my mind is functioning slow now."

With that said, he earnestly followed each of the signboard hanging on top of his head leading him to the wet market.

Amelia took a few steps forward worriedly. She finally heaved a sigh in relief after making sure that Howard had found his way to the entrance of the wet market from afar.

Ten minutes later...

"Amelia, please come and check if I've gotten the things you needed correctly."

Amelia took over those three bags. She sneaked a glance at each of the bags just to find out that they were all in terrible conditions.

But as soon as she saw the excitement on Howard's face as if he was waiting for approval, Amelia gave him a big thumb up and complimented, "Yes, they are all I needed. You did an awesome job!"

A trace of delight flashed across Howard's face although he took her compliment at ease, "This means nothing to me. Did I ever tell you before that I used to be a farmer long ago? I can now easily tell the quality and grade of the onions and garlics from the experience accumulated from those good old days."

Despite feeling entertained by his boasting, Amelia did not expose him.

As she was pushing the shopping cart, she smiled and asked, "Dad, I think I've gathered everything I needed. Should we buy some drinks? What do you like in preference? Let's say coke or sprite?"

Howard frowned with her words, "Dear, carbonated drinks are not good for health."

"It causes no harm to make an exception for today." Amelia tried to convince Howard girlishly.

Howard stuck out one finger and said solemnly, "Fine then, only this time!"

"Dad, you're the best!" Amelia hoorayed in excitement.

At Land of Fragrance.

When both of them returning home with each of them carrying two loaded plastic bags on their hands respectively, Howard exclaimed, "Where's Patrick?"

Sensing the anxiety of the old folk, Amelia swept a quick glance at the hall.

Patrick frowned as he was made speechless. He wondered if she in fact could not tell that he was teasing her sarcastically.

Amelia looked at the laptop screen that had not been lit at all. She asked tentatively, "Please go down and have a seat if you're free."

Patrick deliberately reached out the mouse and moved it before he said, "Can't you see that I'm busy?"

Knowing that Patrick had not even turned on the computer, Amelia contained herself from exposing him. She tactfully said, "In case you're really busy, you can have the whole night to yourself to get it done. Can you please go down and accompany dad? He is leaving after dinner. Since I'm going to get dinner done, I'm afraid that he'll be boring at the hall alone."

Patrick thumped the mouse and stood up right away from his chair. He scolded as if he had been triggered, "So you never worried that I might be boring?"

Amelia was amused by his words.

She knew that he had been talking to Sissi on phone all the time. Not only that, he had brought her to a French restaurant and even bought her a house. Amelia wondered how could he regard his life as boring when he would simply entertain Sissi whenever she needed him even if at the cost of abandoning her.

"You must be kidding." Amelia forced a smile as she said, "You're living an interesting life."

Patrick squinted, he was suddenly overwhelmed with the impulse to get rid of the smile on her face.

He came to the front of Amelia before she could recede. He reached out the door knob behind her. With a loud bang, he closed the door shut.

Amelia narrowed her eyes and asked, "What do you

want to do?"

Patrick leaned over her ear and spoke with his voice irresistibly low, "Don't tell me that you would want dad to see us making love?"

Amelia was infuriated by his teasing that she wished to seal Patrick's mouth right away with a stapler.

"I'm telling you... Dad is just downstairs. Don't mess around!"

Patrick looked at her with a smile and said, "Are you on your sound mind? Dad is desperate to see us madly in love. That's enough, stop talking. Kiss me now."