As soon as he spoke, everyone looked in our direction.
The next second, everyone saw me.
The one with the ugliest expression on her face was Caroline. She stared at me closely with the veins on her forehead bulging slightly while clenching her hands tightly. However, she kept smiling and said, "Charlotte, Patrick, why are you two together?"
"We..."
"We met downstairs. So we came up together."
Just as I was about to say something, I heard Patrick's voice behind me.
His words made me nervous.
I couldn't help sneering.
Then I thought that it was reasonable for Patrick to say so and that I didn't need to overthink it. After all, in front of Caroline, Patrick surely would completely cut off the relationship with me.
"Oh, I see..." Caroline's expression became somewhat normal.
Because of Patrick's lie, I was confident, asking them, "Why are you here? Could it be that the whole world had been turned upside down?"
Caroline glanced at Rosy in the ward. Then, she lowered her eyes and said in a weeping tone, "In the middle of last night, the doctor contacted us and told us that Grandma's condition wasn't good. So he asked us to come over."
"In the middle of last night? Why didn't the doctor inform me?"
Unexpectedly, I didn't know anything at all!
When I said this, a doctor happened to come over and immediately explained, "Yesterday, we did call you. It was this gentleman who opened the door and said that you were resting."
After the doctor finished his words, everyone in the corridor was silent for no reason.
The doctor seemed to notice that something was wrong. So he turned around and left.
Caroline raised her head and looked at Patrick with tears streaming down her cheeks, "Patrick, what's going on?" Then she looked at me. "Charlotte, why did you guys work together to lie to me..."
Hearing this, Jeremy also got angry as he said, "Charlotte Archer, it was you who made Patrick marry Caroline. Patrick, you also agreed back then. What's wrong with you two now?"
"Dad, forget it. It's all my fault. I'm the extra one in this relationship. I should die..."
As Caroline said so, she wanted to run away.
Jeremy grabbed her. He, who couldn't beat me, could only stare at me and said, "Charlotte Archer, we shouldn't have brought you home back then! You've done so many shameless things over the years! Your grandmother loves you the most. But you bribed a doctor to hurt her. And now you're interfering in Caroline's marriage!"
With just a few words, he made me a heinous person.
I couldn't help but think of what Michael had told me yesterday.
I thought to myself, "How could it be so coincidental that as Caroline intended to jump off the building, someone came to take my bank card? Everyone could see that everything had been planned in advance!"
"Mr. Jeremy, don't you think what you said sounds ridiculous?" I crossed my hands in front of my chest, "You brought me home for the sake of the shares. And then you used me, making me marry Patrick on behalf of Caroline. And Caroline framed me by pretending to be miserable in front of me. In the end, your trick was exposed by Grandma. After I married Patrick, you wanted to make me disappear forever and put me in jail!"
"Nonsense!"
"Am I talking nonsense?" I laughed even more coldly, "I will set aside what happened in the past. This time, it was probably you wanted Caroline to be Mrs. Cowell that you put on a show and asked her to pretend to jump off the building. During this period, you asked someone to steal my bank card and transferred money to the doctor. Fearing that it wouldn't be safe, you asked someone to take Grandma to the rooftop without giving a damn about her safety so that she could speak up for you! However, you found that the Cowell Family didn't agree to Patrick and Caroline's marriage. So you directly took advantage of Grandma's illness, making Ned change his mind!"
In fact, most of what I had said was guessing I had made randomly.
But after I finished speaking, I saw guilt on both Jeremy's face and Caroline's face.
It was as if what I had said was true. It was as if what I had said was simply what they were thinking about back then!
Jeremy was silent for two or three seconds. And he suddenly said, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about? You son of a b**ch!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand, intending to hit me!
He, who was exasperated, launched his attack quickly. Knowing that I couldn't dodge him, I closed my eyes subconsciously.
But I wasn't slapped as I expected.
Before I could open my eyes, I heard Jeremy saying, "Patrick Cowell, how come you're still protecting her? She's a coquettish woman. She's lying! You can't even be convinced by a word of hers."
At this time, I realized that what I had said casually surely had coincided with most of the reality.
Caroline Archer was so cruel!
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