Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick)

Chapter 768

When Amelia answered, her eyes kept darting left and right, avoiding his gaze. Patrick then grabbed her by the shoulders and turned her over to pin her against the door. His icy breath mingling with her panting when he muttered, "Does it feel good to steal a bite behind my back, Amelia?"

Huh?

"Doesn't that sound... a little too ambiguous?" thought Amelia.

Amelia did not dare to reply right away because she did not know what Patrick meant by 'steal a bite'. Was he perhaps referring to the snacks... Or what happened between her and Kaiden?

Patrick was seething when he watched her shivered and squirming underneath him. She was about to merge into one with the door behind her. He then pushed his chest forward to seal the only way she could get away from him. "Let's see how she can escape now!" thought Patrick. © NôvelDrama.Org - All rights reserved.

Because she was being gazed down upon from a close distance, Amelia felt uneasy and wanted to turn her head away from him. In the next second, however, Patrick's grip on her shoulder blades tightened and she squinted her eyes from the pain, murmuring while complaining, "You're bullying me..."

The grievance and indignance in her eyes seemed to have materialized into a silver thread, intertwining around Patrick's fingers and clung around his body in a second, washing him over with a numbing sensation.

Noticing that his movements became a little sluggish, Amelia whined again, "You're already bullying me the minute I come back!"

Instead of describing Amelia's tone as grumbling, it was more towards coquetry, and it was tugging on Patrick's heartstrings.

A moment of silence ensued. When Amelia saw that he had his eyes glued on her, she could not bear it any longer and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Patrick looked at her and said mockingly, "I was just thinking, is there anything about you that isn't a lie?"

"Well..." Amelia's voice was as faint as a mosquito's. "It's not a lie that I haven't had dinner yet..."

"Ha!" Patrick sneered at her answer, "So you're indirectly admitting that you were lying to me when you said you bought me snacks and you missed me?"

Amelia was struck speechless.

After a long pause, she then replied, sounding upset,

"I can't hide anything from you."

As expected!

Patrick's chest was undulating vigorously from the anger coursing through his veins. He had given her permission to hang out with another man for a whole day, and she actually had the time of her life outside without a care for the world!

As for Patrick, he had been on tenterhooks at the company for the entire day. Even when he was in a meeting, he was staring at his phone like a lunatic, waiting for her to give him a call. In the end, he did not even get a short message, let alone a phone call!

When it was finally time to get off work, he hurried over to Apex Construction Corporation, only to find out their President Ramsay had taken the day off.

Patrick thought she forgot the plan she had made with him this morning, but when he returned to Land of Fragrance, there was no trace of her. Not only that, but Patrick was even more infuriated when Huxton told him, "Sir, it's better if you stay clueless."

And if Huxton was keeping something from him, it meant that Amelia was hiding something from him!

In return, his punishment for Huxton was meant to be directed at Amelia!

Therefore, the reason why Amelia was saying these sweet words to warm his heart must be because that she wanted him to withdraw his punishment on Huxton!

If not, she would have returned to her room by now! Why would she still care about his mood!

Amelia had no idea Patrick had figured out everything for himself. She was eager to make peace with him when she continued, "Mr. Hopper, I lied to you to lure you out because I miss you..."

Hearing her soft and lovely voice talking about missing him, all Patrick could feel was an insult for every word she said was sugarcoated, concealing a layer of frost underneath!

How cruel!

"You said you miss me, then how much do you miss me?" asked Patrick as he snaked one hand around her slender waist and gently lifted her chin with the other.

"Very much!" responded Amelia with sentiment welling in her expression.

The corner of Patrick's lips curled. He then said kindly, "Okay, then let's go downstairs for dinner."

The second he finished his sentence, he released his hold on her.

"That's great!" Without realizing the flash of coldness in Patrick's eyes, Amelia reached out to hold his arm and was about to pull him downstairs with a delighted smile.

Patrick followed her from behind, he was actually almost dragged away.

Just as they were was about to take a step down the stairs, Amelia tugged at his sleeve. Then, she said keenly, in an attempt to please him, "Mr. Hopper, there's one more thing I need to discuss with you."

"Is this it?" wondered Patrick.

"Go ahead." Looking back at her, he then circled his arms around her between the railing of the stairs in a swift motion. Such a posture made him feel like he had her completely under his control.

And he enjoyed this kind of feeling!

However, Amelia did not.

Patrick was fit and looming over her, and his aura was at the same amount of imposing too!

Every time they were this close to each other, she would get unnerved from the way his eyes locked onto hers, especially when she was going to ask for a favour or was in the wrong!

And right at this moment, she was overridden with both the need to ask him for help and guilt from her own actions. But he was standing so close to her, extracting the very little common sense she had left, entrapping her into a state of confusion with no clue what to do next...

"Go ahead," Patrick urged once again. But this time, he had his head buried in her neck, causing Amelia to feel like the moment she said something wrong, her neck would be bitten off...

She hoped not.

After taking a deep breath, Amelia started her question, "I heard you punished Huxton when you got home?"

"Yep." Patrick reached out a hand and caressed her fair and bare neck, feeling her pulse under his touch...

Such intimacy made its way into Amelia's voice as she said with irrepressible emotion, "Though I don't know the specific reason why you punished him, I've already allowed Huxton into the house... Ah!"

Before she could finish her sentence, her neck was bitten, and she could not help but lean back, finding the pain difficult to endure.

"Wait a minute, doesn't this man have his craze about cleanliness? I've been out for the day, but he still bit me?" thought Amelia.

After biting her and calming down the ball of flaming fury in his chest, Patrick raised his attractive face, looked at her and asked, "You didn't know the reason, and still, you let him in. What if he had evil intentions and wanted to kill me?"

Amelia retorted right away without a second thought, "You think too much! Huxton isn't like that!"

Patrick's smirk chilled Amelia when he replied, "What kind of person he is isn't the important part. The most crucial thing is that he has to do whatever I want him to do!

I asked him to monitor your safety in furtive and report to me. He failed to do the second part of his duty, so I reprimanded him to reshape his loyalty. But you let him in without my permission, which was inconducive to the authority I was enforcing.

What if one day he has had enough of my orders and plots against me? What if he accepts some external benefits in exchange for hurting me? To kill me? What should I do then?"

Hearing him, it suddenly dawned on Amelia the severity of her action.