Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick)

Chapter 684

Amelia nodded, thinking that Alice's analysis was truly reasonable and convincing.

Alice earnestly said, "Amelia, I don't care whether you believe me or not, but Kaleb and I are not having any affairs. After all, the only man I love is your father."

"Aunty Alice, it's not that I don't trust you. I just feel that Kaleb is indeed a disgusting man! I can't believe he's doing that on you publicly? Why don't you just give him a tight slap in his face so that he will know how to behave next time?"

Amelia felt extremely uncomfortable whenever she mentioned Kaleb. She wished that she could rip his perverted face right away. Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

Alice forced a smile, "I know what's on his mind. But I can't afford to ruin the plans now considering that he somewhat has a say in Apex Construction. Neither do I want to see him making your situation difficult, nor do I want to see him bringing troubles to the company. I can only bear with it."

Upon learning of Alice's true intention, Amelia could not help feeling ashamed. She had never been thoughtful or understanding in the past. All she did was to go against Alice and rebel with her father for every decisions made by Alice.

Had she listened to her father and went according to his plan laid down for her during her university time and joined Apex Construction right away after she graduated, most probably Daniel would have nothing to do with the company anymore.

After a long silence, Amelia suddenly held Alice's hand and promised, "Aunty Alice, I will definitely make your suffering worthwhile! When I manage to conclude several big investments and strike a few business deals, I will be able to build my own reputation and status in the company. Until then, Kaleb can survive in the company no more!"

Alice was filled with hope all over again. She looked at Amelia and said, "I'll wait for that day."

Seeing Alice's soft and temperament as if she was a helpless sheep awaiting for slaughtering, Amelia could not help feeling worried, "One more thing Aunty Alice, you can't keep tolerate with Kaleb without a limit. Otherwise, he will only become more aggravated! Maybe you can learn from what I did the other night in the hospital. You can threaten to tell his wife and kids. I heard people from the company saying that his wife is a fierce character. Otherwise, Kaleb would not have thought of having affairs outside."

Alice pursed his lips into a smile, "Sure, I know what to do. Don't worry."

Amelia felt uneasy and said, "Who is worried about you? I am just worried that you will betray my father!"

Hearing this, Alice said in an extraordinarily serious manner, "I can promise to you, I will never betray your father even if I have to go through hell!"

"Stop right there! Don't talk nonsense!" Amelia scoffed. She could not bear to hear anyone cursing themselves this way, "You're such a useless person then if Kaleb that pig can easily force you to death!"

Upon seeing Amelia's concerning look, Alice felt a rush of warmth in her heart, "Amelia, how much I wish that you're my daughter by blood. I would have given the best of everything in this world to you."

Although she was still upset by the early death of her mother by blood, Amelia purposely replied relaxingly, "Isn't foster daughter same as your own daughter? Aunty Alice, you'd better make sure that you treat both of us fairly. Otherwise, I will complain to my own mother that you've been torturing me every night in my dream."

In fact, Amelia was not actually lying about this. During the first few years right after

Petty Simmons committed suicide. Amelia had always dreamt of her.

Hence, during her dream at night she had been

complaining to Petty that Alice did not treat her well. Not only that Alice had hit and scold her, she would not let Amelia ate too. The worst scenario was that she had complained that Alice had wanted to kick her out from the house...

Amelia wanted Petty to come back and take care of her by saying so.

Of course, in fact, Alice had never done anything ruthless to her.

At the end of the day, these were just her unspeakable fear underlying in her heart. What the dream did was just to manifest it.

Amelia was somehow freeing herself from her own fear by revealing it to Alice at this moment.

Without any of them realizing, the two of them had in fact became closer.

Alice reached out her hand to pinch Amelia's delicate nose affectionately, "Look what you said! Your words have never been kind to anyone!"

This was the first time that Alice had done something so intimate to her. Amelia suddenly felt the urge to cry.

Looking away in a hurry, Amelia said to Alice, "Aunty Alice, please hurry to get Brittany something to eat. I have to go now." "Okay, be safe." Alice reminded her.

At Land of Fragrance.

Amelia saw Huxton standing beside the shoe cabinet as soon as she entered the house. She asked curiously, "What are you doing here? Are you a statue?"

Huxton remained calm and said, "I'm waiting for madam to come back for lunch."

"Waiting for me?" Amelia sized up him cautiously before she asked in a suspicious manner, "I doubt if you will be kind-hearted."

Huxton did not answer Amelia's question and said bluntly, "Madam, your lunch is served. They are all your favorite dishes. Please take off your shoes first."

Pausing for a few seconds, his gaze fell onto Amelia's dusty shoes and said, "If you had already been tired, I'm willing to remove the shoes for you."

With that said, Huxton intended to kneel on one of his knee.

Amelia was frightened to the extent that she stepped backward and hurriedly said, "Oh, no! Don't get yourself busy, I'm fine on my own."

"Alright." Huxton straightened his back and stood aside.

Amelia stared at Huxton as if she had just bumped into a ghost while she removed her heels.

Before she could take her slippers from the shoe rack, Huxton had already taken one step ahead of her and offered her the pair of slippers with both hands.

The corners of Amelia's mouth twitched, "Put it on the ground then."

Huxton positioned the pair of woman slippers right in front of her toes so that she could slip her feet into them easily from behind.

"Thank you." Despite his sudden change of attitude, Amelia could finally convince herself that he was a butler upon enjoying his thoughtful service for very first time.

"Madam, do you need to take a shower before having your meal?" Huxton asked again.

"No, there's no need." Amelia hurriedly shook her head to prevent Huxton from continuing his abnormal madness. It would be truly horrifying if he offered to shower for her.

"Madam, please be seated then."

He was too suspicious to be real.

In particular, Huxton had been invited her to be seated with a poker face, as if she was the 'dish' that needed to be processed on the table.

However as soon as she saw her favorite dishes such as chicken roulade, smoked duck salad and a spicy seafood arrabbiata serving on the table, Amelia finally convinced herself that she had been overthinking it. It seemed like Huxton was not pranking on her today all in a sudden.

Huxton who was standing behind Amelia, asked, "Are you satisfied with the dishes, madam?"

"Yes, I'm so satisfied!" The dishes were beyond her satisfaction that she could feel her saliva dripping onto her plate.

Huxton smiled and pulled out a chair for her gentlemanly, "Please have a seat, madam."

Sitting down, Amelia shifted her suspicious gaze onto Huxton and said, "You can tell me now. Why had you been so attentive today?"

Huxton's expression froze in an instant, "Madam, I'm just doing my part. Please enjoy your meal."