Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 192

"From now on, you'll live here. And I'll live in your next door."

Shelton got off the car and followed me.

"The next door?" I looked at the next door, which was a house with the same layout as this one.

But there was nothing in the yard.

Shelton handed me a small bag in his hand, "Here are your passport and identification card. I also bought you a cell phone where there is a local sim card. By the way, there is cash inside as well. If you want to leave here, you can leave at any time."

I opened the bag and checked all kinds of things.

This feeling was so wonderful.

Before, Patrick confined me and refused to let me go. I tried my best to leave him. But now, I was here. And Shelton gave me everything. I was completely free. However, I found that I was in a good place instead.

Shelton handed me a key and asked me to go into the room to have a look.

I walked inside, only to find that he was still

standing at the door. I turned to him and asked, "Why don't you come in?"

"This is your home now. If the master doesn't invite me in, of course, I can't go in." Shelton smiled faintly.

I was stunned for a moment.

And I made a "please" gesture.

Only after that did Shelton come in.

He accompanied me to have a look around the room. The whole room was divided into two floors. On the ground floor, there was a living room, a dining room, and a kitchen.

There was a room for getting changed, a study, and a big bedroom upstairs.

There was a large balcony attached to the window of the bedroom. Several small shelves with various flowers on them were placed on the balcony.

It was like a small house in a cartoon book.

"Do you like it?"

When I was staring at the flowers on the windowsill in a daze, Shelton asked me from behind...

"Yes." I nodded.

Shelton nodded and said, "That's good. I've asked someone to buy you some daily necessities and clothes. You can have a rest first. We'll go to the town for dinner later." He looked at his watch and said, "Let's set off in half an hour."

"Okay."

After Shelton left, I went to the windowsill, sat on the metal chair, and looked into the distance. The sunset glow was fading bit by bit.

Everything was so quiet and beautiful.

However, I had been thinking of someone all the time.

It was Patrick Cowell.

"Where is he now? How is he? Is he still taking the anti-exposure drugs?"

"What will he do if he can't find me?"

I had been eager to leave him. And it was I who hated him for taking my child away on his own accord.

But now that I indeed left him. And he was on my mind instead.

Half an hour passed by in a flash. But I forgot what time it was.

As I looked at the sunset, I heard the sounds of light footsteps behind me. Someone stood behind me and asked, "What are you thinking about..."

This voice...

"Pa..." I subconsciously called out Patrick's name. But when I looked back and saw the person behind me, a profound disappointment rose in my heart. I forced a smile and said, "Mr. Shelton, why are you here?"

Shelton pointed to the watch on his wrist and said, "We have made an appointment to have dinner together half an hour later."

"Ah." I thought of this matter and said with some apology, "I'm sorry, I forgot it."

Shelton shook his head, "It's okay. Are you hungry now? If you're not hungry, we can go to have dinner later. There's a time difference between here and where we were before..."

"I'm hungry."

I interrupted him and stood up.

After all, it was me who had asked Shelton to save me. Now he did as I said. I surely couldn't put on a sulky look.

He did nothing wrong.

If someone indeed did something wrong, I would be the only one who was at fault.

Shelton said that he wanted to take me to a restaurant for dinner. At the thought that my face was like this, I refused.

But he promised me over and over again that no one would care about my face.

In the end, I took off the cover on my face and went to have dinner with gauze and a mask on my face.

Shelton took me to a popular restaurant in the local area. By the time we went in, it had been almost full. When the boss saw Shelton, she quickly greeted him. And when she saw me, she just smiled.

Then she took the two of us to a quiet corner at the end of the room.

The boss here was a middle-aged woman in her forties. She didn't mind my appearance. Instead, she introduced the specialty dishes of her store to me enthusiastically.

We came here for the first time. So we ordered dishes based on her recommendation.

The dishes were served. To tell the truth, the dishes here weren't as good as how the boss had recommended to us. They tasted so strange. However, the boss came to ask us if the dishes tasted good because we were outsiders here.

To avoid failing her enthusiasm, I had to brace myself to finish all the dishes.

And the people around us were indeed like what Shelton had said. They didn't mind me at all.

This made me feel relieved all of a sudden.

After dinner, considering that I was tired, Shelton let me go back to rest first. And he also asked me to visit the town with him tomorrow.

I suspiciously looked at Shelton and said, "Mr. Shelton, you are always so busy. Now you come out like this. What should you deal with the issues in the hospital?"

"Don't worry, everything can go on normally without me." After Shelton said that, his expression suddenly became serious. And he looked at me. "It is you who matters to me. The reason why I brought you out this time was that I wanted you to think it over and ask yourself as for what you wanted."

"What do I want..."

Looking at Shelton, I seemed to somewhat understand what he wanted to say.

Shelton rubbed my hair, "Go and rest quickly. If there is anything you need, there is my phone number on the cell phone. Or you can come directly to my house to find me. One key on the bunch of keys of yours can open the door to my house."

After he said that, he seemed to fear that I would misunderstand him. So he quickly said, "But I didn't have the key to your house. It is you who didn't lock the door at night. I called you. But you didn't respond. So I went up."

Looking at his nervous look, I smiled and said, "I know that you are a gentleman, Mr. Shelton."

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Shelton was stunned. And he burst out laughing. "I'll take it."

After that, he went back to his room.

I also went home, changed my clothes, and took a shower. Lying alone in bed, I felt that my mind was in a mess.

Patrick was all over my heart and my mind.

Holding the cell phone in my hands, I actually wanted to call Patrick several times.

"Am I crazy?"

"I managed to escape. Why do I want to go back to his side again?"

"Even if I like to go back, I will have to wait until two months later so that I can convince Patrick that I am not ill."

At the thought of this, I came to a sudden realization that in fact, it wasn't me who became abnormal. It was Patrick instead. He believed firmly that it was me in the video. And then he persuaded himself and forced himself.

At the same time, he also coerced me...

With him on my mind, I fell asleep in a daze on the bed.

It was probably because of the fact that I had been thinking about Patrick that I dreamed of Patrick that night. I dreamed of him standing in a barren desert, shouting my name incessantly.

He was crazily looking for me. But I wasn't there.

He kept shouting until he was exhausted.

I kept looking at him. When the morning sunshine woke me up, I only felt some tears stains at the corner of my eyes.

"Patrick Cowell."

"Patrick Cowell."

"What should I do with you?"

"What should I do?"

"Ding-dong."

"Good morning!"

By the time I finished washing up, changed into the clothes that Shelton had prepared for me, and went downstairs, Shelton had been waiting for me at the door.

There were two bicycles beside him, a blue one and a pink one.

When he saw me coming out, he waved to me and said, "Let's go. I'll take you to have breakfast."

I looked at him and quickly put away my sadness. Then I put on a relaxed expression and walked up to him, "Okay."

As I spoke, I put my hands on the pink bicycle.