Only then did I realize that I didn't smell any alcohol when I was so close to him.
He was sober.
I dared not make a random guess. So I looked at him and said, "Brother- in- law, then don't talk nonsense. The one you love is Caroline Archer. Never will you love me in your life. You said it by yourself."
Hearing what I said, Patrick was a little absent-minded.
He looked at me with a more profound look in his black eyes, "Yes, I used to think so. But I was wrong."
"Mr. Cowell, as I said, Caroline and I can't coexist. If she is in prison, I will go back to your side."
I looked at Patrick with a firm look in my eyes.
At that moment, I saw the hesitation in Patrick's eyes.
I sneered, "Mr. Cowell, I was innocent when I was in prison. But she deserved to be in prison. But when I was in prison, you stood by and did nothing. And you can't bear to see her being imprisoned. Don't you already have an answer in your heart?"
"No. I..."
Just as Patrick seemed to be hesitating, intending to say something, someone reached out his hand, put it in front of me, and pushed him away!
At that time, Patrick was a little absentminded. So he was pushed away when he was caught off guard.
It was Seth.
The next second, I was protected by Seth behind him. And he said to Patrick, "What are you going to do to my girlfriend, Mr. Cowell?" "Your girlfriend?" Patrick couldn't help but frown when he heard Seth call me like this. Then he looked at me and asked, "Are you his girlfriend?"
When I was hesitating about what to say, Seth suddenly took me into his arms.
Seth's arm was very strong. And I could hear his heartbeat when I was in his arms.
I raised my head and said to Patrick, "Yes. I'm already his girlfriend. Mr. Cowell, I'm just a piece of trash abandoned by you."
I belittled myself on purpose so that Patrick wouldn't make a move on Seth.
"Oh. Didn't you just say that you would come back to my side after she went to jail? Why do you have a boyfriend now?"
Patrick stood there.
Judging from the look in his eyes, unexpectedly, I saw that he had been hurt. And I didn't know what to say for a moment.
At this time, Seth said, "Mr. Cowell, your marriage with Caroline has already been made public to the whole world. Please don't continue to hurt Charlotte. She has been hurt by you so badly. And you surely can't go on hurting her."
Seth's words made me even more upset.
Seth knew me well.
What he said matched my current state.
I indeed had been badly injured by Patrick Cowell.
Patrick looked at me with a trace of heartache in his eyes. Then he, who seemed to have understood something, turned around and left.
As soon as he left, Seth didn't continue to hold me in his arms. Instead, he put down his hand and said, "Sorry. The situation was special just now."
I shook my head.
I knew that Seth was good to me.
He asked me why I was here. So I told him about Tim.
As Seth heard this, his face became gloomy. And he said, "After I go back this time, I will fire him."
I didn't object.
After all, it wasn't good to keep someone like Tim in the company.
Throughout the latter phase of the annual conference, Seth had been by my side all the time, accompanying me to have food.
Seeing that he seemed to intend to say something and gave it up several times, I asked him, "Do you have anything to say?"
Only then did Seth tell me that the client just now actually came from the annual conference of Patrick's company.
In fact, the Cowell Family didn't want to leak the marriage between the Archer Family and the Cowell Family this time. But the Archer Family acted on their own, which somewhat irritated the Cowell Family.
However, the reason why this matter happened was that something was wrong with Archer's Group. Its stock had been sluggish, plummeting down for several months.
To stabilize the situation, the Archer Family released the news about the marriage, which made the stock price rise a little.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but be somewhat worried about Rosy.
But I didn't mention her. Instead, I asked Seth, "Why did you tell me this?"
"You think I'm stupid, right?" Seth looked at me as he squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "I hope to win you over in a fair way."
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