Chapter 446
Amelia smiled and said, "You can just call me Amelia. Uncle, Merry Christmas!"
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"Alright." Uncle Santiago said with a smiling face. He handed gift to Amelia and said, "May you and
Patrick be together forever."
Amelia was overwhelmed with happiness, "Thank you, uncle!"
"Excuse me, sister..." Hayden looked at Amelia with his big bright eyes and asked with slight
hesitation, "If you don''t mind, can I ask how old are you?"
"Amelia," Amelia said honestly, "25."
Hayden was dumbfounded. "Nice to meet you. You are 25? I thought you were still a college
student!"
Amelia''s lips pursed into a smile. "I''ll take it as apliment."
Hayden turned his eyes to Patrick''s face and said half-jokingly, "Patrick, when I first saw her, I
thought you are dating a college girl."
Patrick unconsciously raised his hand to touch his face. "Am I that old?" He thought to himself.
He could not help but nced at the mirror nearby and found that Hayden''s face was indeed fair
and youthful. Standing beside his wife, they were really "matched"!
A few strands of annoyance appeared. He had never thought that one day, his age would be a
problem.
Amelia said to Hayden, "You are still young. There are some things that you don''t know. It''s popr
now that a much older man married with a younger woman, the older one will love his wife even
more." Then, she turned and looked at Patrick. "Am I right, Mr. Hopper?"
Listening to her words, the depression in Patrick''s eyes disappeared almost immediately. He
nodded his head in agreement with her statement.
Just then, a sweet voice suddenly came from behind Patrick.
"Patrick..."
Amelia shivered with fear at the sudden call of Patrick''s name.
Hayden''s face changed. "Gosh, Sister Leah is here. Patrick, and Amelia, I... I''ll leave now!"
"Huh?" Amelia was about to ask Hayden why he left, but only to see Hayden propping himself up on
the sofa with one hand, jumped from the back of the chair andnded perfectly on the ground. He
carried his skateboard and slid out from the living room,
making his father so angry that he was trembling.
Hayden was not the only one. As long as there were young men around, their faces showed the
same as they had seen the end of the world. Amelia quickly asked Patrick, "What''s wrong?"
Patrick said, "You''ll knowter."
Amelia looked at the daughter of the Dor Family. The woman looked about 1.7 meters tall. She
had a plump figure, an oval face, and tender white skin. If she was in ancient times, she would be
consider as a very beautiful woman.
Leah Dor was indeed a beauty. It was just that she had the character of being an anthomaniac,
and it was beyond anyone''s praise.
In the process of walking to Patrick, Leah touched the faces of many of her cousin brothers, which
made them stiff all over but unable to turn against her. They lined up to go to the toilet one by one
eventually.
The reason? Of course, the reason was to wash their faces!
It was not Leah''s fault for being as such. After all, she had been instilled by the Dor family into the
concept of being Patrick''s wife since childhood.
Who was Patrick? He was her cousin! Since she and her cousin could get married, why was she
touching the faces of other cousins? This surely was to enhance the rtionship between each
other.
Seeing this, the corners of Amelia''s mouth twitched. She finally figured out why Hayden ran away in
a hurry. It turned out that he was afraid of being "spoiled" by Leah.
Leah finally came to her sweetheart after "greeting" others. He looked at Patrick shyly and said,
"Patrick, I miss you so much since you are not around these years. I can''t eat and sleep well. Am I
thinner than before you went abroad?"
As she said that, Leah turned in a circle on the spot, and the st of air created by her made it
difficult for them to say the word "thin" against their intention.
Patrick nced at her and said perfunctorily, "Yes, you lost some weight."
Leah blinked her big eyes and asked, "Patrick, do you think I look good if I''m a little fatter or
thinner?"
Patrick gave a generous answer, "Both are good."
"Haha! Patrick, you''re so sweet!"
Leah stomped his feet and was about to throw himself into Patrick''s arms...
"Wait a minute!" A hand stretched out from the middle of them and stopped Leah from throwing
herself into Patrick''s arms.
Leah turned around and looked at Amelia''s unfamiliar face, thinking that Amelia was just a rtive
who had not always showed up in their family gathering. So, she asked, "Who are you?"
Amelia could finally say it out loud in front of everyone, "I am Patrick''s wife. You can call me
Amelia."
Leah was stunned for a moment and soon showed a sad look, "My grandmother and my mom were
talking about you, it''s you who stole my Patrick away. Boo-hoo..."
She started crying as she speaked?
Amelia did not want others to say that she was bullying the weak. She quickly turned back and
winked at Patrick!
There was a hint of helplessness in Patrick''s eyes. He probably could not figure out the strange
character of this Cousin Leah.
Leah''s wailing soon attracted the eyes of two elders of the Dor Family. Patrick''s aunt asked
distressedly, "My dear daughter, why are you crying?"
Leah cried, "Mom, Patrick is married, and the bride wasn''t me!"
In a panic, Leah''s mother hurriedlyforted her and said, "Marriage still possible for a divorce isn''t
it!
Baby, it''s okay. You still have a chance!"
Patrick was speechless.
So was Amelia.
Under the strange gaze of Amelia and Patrick, Leah''s mother realized that it was not appropriate to
curse a divorce face-to-face. So, she hurried to show some respect and said, "I meant..."
In the end, it was still Amelia who could not bear to see it anymore. She said, "Leah, you and my
husband are cousins. That means you both are blood rted. No matter how much you admire him,
you can''t treat this kind of adoration as affection, or as love!"
Leah did not buy it and retorted, "Who says that? I love Patrick, can''t I? I was determined to be his
wife since childhood!"
Amelia''s view of life was on the verge of shattering, "But... but you''re cousins!"
Leah looked at her and said, "What''s wrong with being cousins? Do you need me to show you
some examples of close rtives married in ancient and even modern times? For example, Einstein
married his cousin! And also Darwin..."
Amelia waspletely confused after hearing Leah''s examples. Moreover, the two elders of the
Dor Family keptplementing what Leah said, this made Amelia wanted to scream out loud out
of stress!
Seeing how Amelia was being put in such a difficult situation, Patrick coughed lightly and said, "It''s
almost time for dinner. Let''s talk after dinner."
Upon hearing the word "dinner", Leah immediately withdrew her hatred from Amelia. Like a hound,
she drifted away along the smell of food that came from the kitchen.