He threatened me like this again!
He threatened me with the orphanage previously. And now it was Glorious Seth Design.
"Mr. Cowell, you're high and mighty. I won't be surprised at all even if you've killed Seth, let alone destroy Glorious Seth Design."
After that, I picked up the pink leopard doll, which I was about to put down, and carried it in my arms as I walked into the guest bedroom.
Patrick caught up with me and grabbed the pink leopard doll by one of its arms.
I hugged the pink leopard doll tightly. And we were in a deadlock.
As soon as he exerted his strength, the arm of the pink leopard doll was broken at once!
I lost my balance, fell back heavily to the ground.
Patrick stepped forward and supported me, who was lying on the ground, "Are you okay?"
His tone was full of concern. And his black eyes were full of worry for me.
I looked at him, feeling abset-minded for a moment.
He seemed to sincerely care about me.
But I thought of what he had said yesterday. He had said that he had to keep Caroline Archer in his life.
I felt as if I had been woken up by a slap in the face.
I struggled, broke free from Patrick's arms, and said alienatedly, "Thank you for your concern, Mr. Cowell. I'm fine."
I got up and picked up the arm of the pink leopard doll which Patrick had thrown on the ground. Then I held the doll's body and put the arm on it.
Fortunately, I could just sew the broken arm with thread back to the part where the arm had broke off.
Patrick looked at me. After a long time, he said in a hoarse voice, "Do you like this doll? Then I can buy you a house of dolls like this."
Upon hearing his words, I thought of what he had said yesterday once again.
He wouldn't give up on Caroline. But he was seducing me in this way.
I, who probably wanted to take revenge, held the pink leopard doll in my hand and said to him, "I don't like pink leopard dolls. But I like
this exact one."
I didn't say anything further.
But Patrick was so smart that he should have got my point.
Patrick's face instantly turned cold. Then he said, "Charlotte Archer, don't forget the content of our marriage agreement, which stipulates that you can't have any ambiguous relationship with other men!"
"Does it? There's nothing ambiguous between him and me. We're just... friends."
I said it word by word.
"If so, it will be the best."
That night, Patrick and I parted with each other unhappily and didn't sleep together.
Early the next morning, I received multiple texts from Caroline.
Caroline's phone number had long been blacklisted by me. She couldn't call in. So she could only text me.
I glimpsed at the texts and found that she was scolding me. As for the content of the texts, it read that she seemed to have found out that there was a house under my name and she thought it was given to me by Rosy.
She tried her best to scold me with disgusting wordings.
"I think it's because she is sure that Patrick will surely keep her by his side that she dares to go so far."
As soon as I finished reading the texts, I kept them in a text folder.
When I walked out of the bedroom, I heard some noise in the bathroom of the master bedroom and saw that Patrick had got up.
I baked two plates of toast probably out of my habit. And the porridge in the pot for which I had set timing had been ready.
I finished one plate of toast by myself. When I left, Patrick happened to come out of the bedroom.
I didn't say hello to him and left quickly.
In fact, I didn't have to work today. But I didn't want to see Patrick.
Having nowhere to go outside, I suddenly wanted to see the children in the orphanage.
So I took a car to the Star Family.
The Star Family was as it used to be when I and Patrick had been here. The children were very happy in the new home.
Several children were playing basketball in the basketball court.
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