Patrick directly held me in his arms and pulled me into the bathtub.
The warm water soaked my clothes in an instant!
As my face was about to be dipped in the water, Patrick immediately grabbed my body with his big hand and dragged me out of the water!
Turning my head, I intended to complain, only to hear his warm voice, "Let's take a bath together."
"No, you take it by yourself."
I said without hesitation.
In fact, I, who was soaked wet, surely couldn't go out like this.
"Okay, then go."
Patrick didn't ask me to stay.
Despite saying so, he held me tightly with no intention to let me go at all.
I pushed his hand and failed. Squinting at him, I pretended to be angry, "Loosen your grip. Otherwise, how can I get out?"
"All right."
Hearing this, he let of me directly.
He dragged me just now. Now, as soon as he let
go of me, I fell backward.
I quickly rest my hands on the edge of the bathtub. Exerting a lot of effort, I turned around to look at him, "You got my clothes wet. I can't get out unless you get me a set of clothes."
"Oh." Patrick nodded, "There's a wardrobe in the locker room on the side. All clothes inside are for you. Find whatever you like there by yourself."
His words made me nervous.
'All the clothes in the wardrobe are for me?'
'What did this mean...'
I sat up straight, put my arms around his waist, and looked down at him. "Forget it, I'm not going out. I'll accompany you. Look, without me, you can't even take a bath by yourself. How can I bear to leave?"
"Oh." Slightly curling up his lips, he said, "I took a bath by myself in the last two weeks."
"Then why did you fall today?"
Upon finishing my words, I suddenly realized something.
'How could it be so coincidental?'
'We are in such a situation now...'
'This room is quite soundproof. If Patrick had been in the bathroom, no matter how loud the sound was, I couldn't have heard it.'
'And if it had been two seconds later, I might not have heard the sound.¹
'In other words...'
For a moment, countless guesses popped up in my mind. And all of them seemed to be proving...
"You..." As I was about to say something, Patrick in front of me suddenly pressed my lips with it.
He stopped me from finishing my words.
However, the subtle look in his eyes had told me everything.
It turned out that he wanted me to stay as well.
Before I could say something, he hooked his arms around my waist and looked at me with a serious expression, "Are you sure you want to stay? If yes, you will have no chance to leave me in the future."
"Who told you that I'm leaving? I..."
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