Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick) novel Chapter 1350

Patrick's living and education background since young had caused him to always be on guard against others. So when Amelia claimed that Jessica would take actions to save her, he seemed to disapprove her words.

He was not specially against Jessica, but had thought so about everyone around Amelia except himself!

"You're just careless. Perhaps you would still blindly be happy after being betrayed by others." He said.

Amelia felt that Patrick's words obviously showed his prejudice against Jessica.

Not to mention that their parents had no relationship at all, even if they really had an affair, Jessica was innocent. Why did Patrick refused to let her go?

Amelia did not mean to quarrel with him but she could not help saying, "I think... you're being petty and narrow-minded!"

Her voice was extremely soft which showed that she had feared to say so, but Patrick had still heard it. He lowered his head and asked in a low voice, "Are you saying something bad about me?"

Amelia looked at his face and found it to be a little livid, so she curled her lips and said, "Why do you ask when you've clearly heard it?"

Just as Patrick's eyes darkened while he wanted to lower his head to punish her insolent lips, Amelia suddenly wrapped her arms around his waist, buried her face in his chest and said softly, "Patrick, it's because of Jessica that I was able to escape this time. If she hadn't sent you a message, I would have been killed. Shouldn't you be grateful to her rather than hate her?"

Although Sawyer had also offered some help, it would definitely add fuel to the fire if she mentioned about him, so she would not find trouble for herself.

Patrick thought that she was getting better at finding his soft spot.

Did she think that he would forgive Jessica and her mother just because she had hugged him and talked gently to him?

Patrick snorted and put his arm around her shoulders to get closer to her before saying, "Of course I should thank her. What do you want me to give her after returning home?"

Amelia was stunned for a moment. She raised her head and asked in surprise, "Huh?"

"I said I should give her something to express my gratitude to her. But considering her current situation, money should be the best present for her." At the end of Patrick's words, he vaguely sounded as he was giving alms.

Amelia looked at him unbelievably. Even though Patrick had treated her as equals, he still treated her friends with an unfriendly and unequal attitude like how he used to!

She suddenly felt bitterly disappointed. If they really intended to start over again, should they not respect each other's friends which was the most fundamental?

Not to mention Jessica, even Milton would probably be ridiculed by Patrick.

"What's wrong with you?" The young lady in his arms suddenly kept quiet, Patrick could not help but reached out to gently pinch her face but his hand was unexpectedly slapped away the next second.

It pricked Patrick's heart as her actions and expression seemed to be like she was slapping some annoying bug.

"What's going on?" His voice sank again with coercion being naturally revealed on his face as he did not think that she was playing with him.

Amelia felt both disappointed and awkward. She did not want those things to spoil the joy of their reunion. But, it was exactly because of such things that they had quarreled again and again during their past marriage .

She had only two choices for the time being.

The first one was to get back to a joking manner and go with Patrick's words to obtain some considerable rewards for Jessica.

The other choice was to openly ask Patrick to stop putting on airs just because he was rich as it would make her unhappy.

Among the two choices, one would ease the conflict, while the other would worsen it which they might even eventually break up in discord.

But, what was the point of living if she could not follow her mind?

With such thought, Amelia got out of Patrick's arms, stood up straight and said in a serious gaze, "Patrick, although I am different from Jessica which my thoughts may not represent hers, I still have to tell you something."

Coldness flashed in Patrick's eyes. Could he take that as she had left his embrace because of Jessica?

He looked calm as he nodded. In fact, he had placed his hands behind his back and held them tightly together to prevent himself from truly strangling the heartless woman in anger. "You may say it."

Under his intense gaze, Amelia said with some uneasiness, "I don't think that Jessica is greedy for money, because she has never taken advantage of my status as Mrs. Hopper to gain any benefits. On the contrary, after your parents' incident, she has treated me more distantly which I don't think a person who greed for money will act like this!"

Patrick's deep voice sounded. "So?"

Amelia took a deep breath and said in one go, "So, you should not think that sending money is definitely a way of expressing gratitude. What if Jessica thinks that we are insulting her?

Patrick almost laughed out loud.

It was not a recent thing that he had investigated Jessica. He had done so as soon as he got out of the Civil Affairs Bureau where he had completed his divorce with Amelia!

Since Amelia no longer acted as her shield, he could simply take revenge on Jessica as he wished.

But through the investigation, he found that Jessica's life had been hard enough, and it would kill her if it got any worse. He disliked Jessica, but not to the point that he would kill her. Hence his revenge was delayed as he had yet to make up his mind.

But unexpectedly, Jessica had managed to make some contributions that could serve as a compensation, so it became unreasonable for him to trouble her for the time being.

At the moment, Amelia had been in deep selfreflection. "Patrick, it's all my fault for thinking of you with cognitive inertia that I've misunderstood you. You can scold or punish me as you like."

When Amelia's face constantly got lower, Patrick curled his lips and said, "I won't scold nor punish you because I feel that Mrs. Hopper's words made sense."

Amelia was stunned as if she did not understand what he meant.

Patrick curved his lips into a sly smile. "Since Mrs.

Hopper doesn't want me to send money that would insult her noble sentiment, then I won't. I'll just send her a pot of flowers or a bag of fruits instead."

"Hey, don't say that!" Amelia was so scared that she quickly held his arm and shook it gently. "Flowers and fruits are not things that she's short of..."

"Oh, could it be a man that a noble lady like Miss Jessica is short of?" Patrick deliberately

said exaggeratedly, "I'll have to make it clear first. Don't ever think of sending me to her as I can't bear it!"

Amelia felt like punching him because of his despicable tone, but she was the one who was petty minded at first.

So she could only calm down and continue to coax him, "I heard that children's nutrition products of higher quality are very expensive nowadays, while Sierra needs to take medicine at the same time, it must be even more expensive. Why not... you relieve them from the financial burden?"

Patrick raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't you stop me from insulting your friend with money?"