Chapter 682


    After a while, Patrick walked into the room and squatted down in front of her. He called out, "Sissi."


    Sissi''s eyshes trembled. Her gaze was hollow when she looked at him.


    An hourter.


    Sissi had showered for nearly an hour. Upon Patrick''s concerning, the door of the bathroom


    unlocked. Immediately after, she walked out in a bathrobe.


    Patrick had been smoking with his back facing the bathroom door. When he heard the sound of the


    door opening, he threw his half-lit cigarette into the dustbin nearby before turning around gradually.


    Patrick could feel the coldness from her skin. He asked coldly, "You showered in cold water?"


    Sissi blinked her eyes and replied with a ''yes'' distantly with her expression cold.


    Patrick pursed his lips and asked with aplicated expression, "Why do you have to do that?"


    Sissi spat out a word, "Dirty."


    Patrick was stunned.


    Sissi looked at him in anger and agony. She was so desperate to vent her anger that she pulled her


    hair violently, "Patrick, what should I do? I can''t help feeling myself dirty!"


    Upon realizing what was she doing, Patrick managed to save her hair from being ripped away from


    her hand after he grabbed her hands.


    "Let me go!" Sissi madly stomped her feet after her hands were cuffed by Patrick.


    In a hurry, Patrick blurted out, "Sissi! Calm down! It''s not your first time anyway!"


    As soon as Patrick finished his sentence, Sissi abruptly stopped all her struggles.


    She nced at him nkly and asked tearfully, "What do you mean by that? You think that since


    I''ve been married and my body was once belonged to that man, hence it doesn''t matter for such


    thing to happen one more time, is it?"


    Patrick frowned and said, "That''s not what I mean! I just want tofort you."


    Sissi shut her eyes and let out an explosive roar, "Patrick, I have already divorced with that b*stard.


    He had no right to do this to me! So, stop convincing me into normalizing such disgusting thing. Do


    you hear me?!"


    Patrick stared at her bloodshot eyes and asked the question that he had wanted to ask from the


    beginning, "Now that you have divorced him, why did youe to the hotel with him?"


    Patrick''s question immediately watered down her anger like a bucket of cold water being sshed


    on her.


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    She smiled bitterly as if she had thought of something, "Before I went to ss this morning, I


    received a call from him. He told me on the phone that he wanted toe to Northville to check on


    me.


    I had refused at first. But then he said that his flight had alreadynded on Northville. I was very


    surprised at that time and felt that it was indeed uneasy for him toe from abroad just to see me.


    Hence, I requested for a half-day leave from the school so that I can pick him up at the airport.


    After we met, he said that he wanted to stay and tour around Northville for the next few days. That


    was why I had brought him here. Initially I was thinking to leave upon helping him into settling down.


    I didn''t expect that he would lock the door... And then..."


    Sissi could not bring herself to continue. She buried her face in Patrick''s chest and burst into tears.


    A trace of bitterness shed across Patrick''s perfect face. He loosened his grip on Sissi''s wrists.


    Instead, he held her back gently inforting her.


    Sissi spoke again in sobbing, "Patrick, I know it''s all my fault. Had I not seen him, all this would not


    have happened..."


    Patrick''s expression turned cold, "I''ll issue an arrest warrantter, if I find him..."


    "No!" Sissi interrupted him from finishing his words. She shook her head and said, "I don''t want to


    see him anymore!"


    Patrick frowned at her mercy and kindness, "Then do you mind that I teach him a lesson personally


    in private?"


    Sissi refused still, "No... He is a journalist abroad. I don''t want to get you into trouble because of


    this."


    Patrick said coldly, "I can make him incapable of being a journalist ever again."


    Biting her lips, Sissi said dejectedly, "You don''t understand..."


    Hearing this, Patrick frowned and subconsciously pushed Sissi away from his arms. He asked in a


    serious tone, "Is there something else that you''re hiding from me?"


    He was not afraid to stand up for Sissi, however he could not tolerate the idea that she had once


    again made a fool of him!


    "I..." Sissi raised her eyes and looked at him. She seemed unable to bring herself into saying what


    was on her mind.


    Patrick sternly demanded, "What''s wrong with you? Tell me clearly!"


    Sissi sighed, "Actually, me and him, the two of us had notpletely separated..."


    Patrick''s eyes narrowed. He suppressed his emotions and waited for her to continue.


    Thinking of what she was going to say next, Sissi could not help feeling mncholic, "He


    threatened me on the phone. If I didn''t go to the airport to pick him up, he would call my parents and


    tell them about our divorce... My parents have already been worried for my welfare all the time. Had


    they known that I applied for divorce secretly and came back to Northville, I would have terribly


    pissed them off!"


    Patrick red at her and said, "For this reason, you are willing to be controlled by him?"


    "Of course I''m not willing! But what can I do? My parents were disappointed at me again and again.


    It wasn''t easy forthem that I had finally gotten into marriage with the guy that they had chosen for


    me. Staying away from Northville and getting married, I had somehow maintained their pride...


    I once swore that I would never ever appear in front of them. All this while I had led them into


    thinking that I was living a great life abroad... However, what happened today waspletely out of


    my expectation. I had never thought that this b*stard would lie to me, bring me here and do such


    thing to me!"


    After saying this with her voice strained, Sissi turned her back to Patrick and said sadly, "I know that


    you will definitely look down at my behavior and even more, hate me being such a weak person. I''m


    sorry for all these. You should go..."


    Looking at Sissi''s trembling back, Patrick''s eyes softened a little.


    "I won''t leave." Silent for a while, he finally spoke.


    However, Sissi acted as if she did not hear him. She walked forward, leaving him behind.


    She stood still in front of the window in the posture as if the world had failed her and left her alone.


    The next second, Sissi was wrapped by a hug that she had been longing for from behind.


    Next to her ear, Patrick sighed, "I''ve told you, I won''t go."


    Sissi tried to hold back her tears, but in the end, she could not stop them from falling.


    In the hospital.


    "Amelia, I''m here."


    Amelia looked around and saw Alice standing at the door of a ward not far away, waving at her.


    She hurried over and stood in front of Alice. She greeted her politely, "Aunty Alice, I''m here."


    Getting closer, she could hear a voice of woman screaming franticallying from Alice''s back.


    Amelia nced over and saw that Brittany was making a scene inside.


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