Chapter 378
Amelia looked down and said in a tense voice, "Mr. Hopper... I''m sorry. If Cynthia had told me earlier
that there was nothing that happened between you, I wouldn''t have been so suspicious."
"I understand. It was my fault this time. Fortunately, I didn''t make a serious mistake."
Patrick admitted his mistake quickly. As he spoke, his lips got closer and closer to her. When he
was about to kiss her, he heard Amelia say, "I also have something to tell you."
Patrick forced himself to stop. His gaze fell on her lips with desire. "Speak."
Amelia said frankly, "After receiving Cynthia''s callst night, I threw away the cake I had made for
you."
"Huh?" Patrick''s handsome face was full of surprise. "You made a cake for me? When?"
Amelia said frustratedly, "When I got off work the day before yesterday. I wanted to give you a
surprise, but I didn''t expect that so many things would have happened. It was my first time to make
a cake, but it was tossed into a waste container."
Patrick''s dark eyes were full of regret. "Mrs. Hopper, would you make another one for me?"
Amelia thought for a moment before she said, "Then we''ll have to wait until next year."
Patrick was not satisfied. "Why do I have to wait? I want one today!"
Amelia was in a dilemma. "But your birthday is over. In Northville, we only celebrate birthdays in
advance, and there''s no such custom as dying it."
Patrick proudly raised his chin and said, "I can''t be the first one to do that?"
"Well... you can! But not today."
Under Patrick''s unhappy gaze, Amelia said pitifully, "You don''t know how unlucky I was. Yesterday
when I was about to get off work, Hobart called me and left me to work on the sales report in the
company. When I was about to finish, thepany was out of power. I have to redo it againter so
I don''t have time to make a cake for you for the time being."
Patrick narrowed his eyes and came to figure the whole thing out by Amelia''s words. "So, nothing is
going on between you and Hobart?"
"Of course not!"
"Then why did I see you hugging each other?"
"That''s because I was about to fall over and Hobart was kind enough to help me. And we both
wound up falling to the ground together."
Patrick scoffed. "Kind? Humph! It''d be strange if he
would be kind!"
Amelia disagreed a little bit. "Eh? Although sometimes he looks like a good guy and sometimes a
bad one, he is generally a nice person."
Patrick couldn''t help roaring, "You work overtime on my birthday. Once Hobart was there, the
company was power-off. When I came to the sales department to find you, you were in Hobart''s
arms. How can there be so many coincidences in the world?"
"Stop yelling, I''m going deaf," said Amelia softly. She was almost dizzy by his loud voice.
But Patrick was still anxious. "Listen carefully. You are not allowed to see him alone anymore. You''d
better not even contact him personally!"
Amelia found that this man was so unfair. After clearing the misunderstanding with Cynthia, he
began to refuse to leave her mistake alone.
She mumbled like an aggrieved little woman, "It''s not like I contacted him first. I have always been
in charge of the cooperation with Mills Skincare Products Corp. Ltd. How can I not pick up his
phone call when he delegates tasks for me?"
Patrick said in a non-negotiable tone, "In that case, from today on, hand over the businesses rted
to Mills to Doris!"
"Oh." Amelia put her hands behind her back, bowed her head, and said in a low voice, "You should
have said that earlier."
Patrick was annoyed by the way she downyed it. For whom he was so angry? He was jealous
because of her, the ungrateful chick!
Hang on... Jealousy?
Patrick paused before he took a significant look at Amelia. For the first time, without avoiding his
true feelings, he said, "Amelia, I seem to... like you."
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Amelia''s mind went nk for a moment and she forgot to reply.
With the corner of his lips curling up, Patrick surprised her again. "Maybe I can ept your proposal
and give it a try."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Amelia seemed to have heard the sound of fireworks exploding in her ears with ecstasy!
At Roxxon Corporation.
"Amelia, what happened to you today? You''ve been wearing that smile all the time."
During the work, Doris asked, poking Amelia on her waist gently with her elbow while Lily was not
paying attention to them.
Amelia turned around with beaming eyes and said,
"Have I? Did I smile?"
Doris was at a loss for words.
That was when Amelia''s phone randomly ced on the table buzzed and interrupted herughter.
Amelia returned to her serious manner and put it through, "Hello..."
"Amelia!" Jessica was in a noisy environment, and her voice was not very clearly heard. "Can you
go back to Lotus Apartment now? I have something very urgent to tell you!"
Lotus Apartment was where Amelia and Jessica had shared for many years. After Amelia got
married, Jessica adopted Sierra and lived with her.
"Huh? What happened, Jessica? Why is it so noisy over there?"
Jessica was so troubled that she was on the verge of tears. "I don''t know what happened either. In
the morning, a few men rushed in for no reason and moved my furniture out. Thendlord also
came to tell me that I can''t stay here any longer!"
"What!" Amelia bounced up from the chair with her eyes wide open.
At Lotus Apartment.
When Amelia arrived, she saw that the small room, which should have been intact, had been
emptied. Only Jessica was left in the corner weeping
with Sierra in her arms.
Sierra was so young that she had no idea what had happened. Seeing Jessica crying, she could
only wave her little hands tofort her mother while babbling.
Amelia put down her backpack and walked over to them carefully. She squatted down and called,
"Jessica..."
"Amelia!" Jessica raised her tear-stained pretty face and said, "Thendlord wants me to leave
before five o''clock... Sierra and I are going to be homeless!"
Amelia questioned, "Have you called the police?"
Jessica gritted her teeth. "I did! But they said it''s civil disputes, which is not in their charge, and told
me to turn to the neighborhoodmittee! I called themittee, and they said it''s thendlord''s
freedom to decide to rent the room to whoever he likes and they had no right to interfere. They
didn''t even n to get involved in this and just hang up the phone!"
The more Amelia heard, the more shocked she was. What Jessica encountered now must have
something to do with Jocelyn.
She licked her dry lips and asked Jessica, "Have you contacted your mother these two days?"
"My mother?" Jessica thought for a few seconds and said awkwardly, "She called me, but I didn''t
answer it."
Amelia met her eyes in silence. It seemed that she was right. Patrick had made his move!
He would kill them all! As long as they had something to do with Jocelyn, Patrick would not let any
of them get away with it!
After a few seconds of disturbance, Amelia quickly made arrangements. "Jessica, do you have cash
on you now? If you don''t, take mine!"