Chapter 736


    After Pauline left, Patrick''s attention immediately fell onto the magazine on the dinner table. His


    intuition told him that Sissi''s gaffe had something to do with that.


    On the other side, Lindsay led Sissi to the bathroom while Sissi tried to recollect herself.


    And though her hair and her back were wet and sticky from the spilt drinks, she still insisted on


    maintaining her elegance.


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    "Sissi, I''m so sorry. I didn''t know you would raise your head so suddenly. Otherwise, I would have


    put the drink far away."


    On their way to the toilet, Lindsay kept apologizing to her. Sissi was annoyed to the extreme, but


    she could not allow herself to show it. So, she could only reply magnanimously, "It''s okay, just be


    more careful in the future."


    Before entering the bathroom, Sissi and Lindsay met Amelia at the door.


    Amelia looked rxed as if she had done solving her own problem. And when she saw them, she


    greeted them with a smile, "Hey!"


    Lindsay nced at Amelia with a pique look. "Hey?


    Get out of our way! Can''t you see we need the toilet?"


    Amelia then lightly brushed the tip of her nose and muttered aggrievedly in a soft voice, "What''s


    going on? Did I offend you?"


    Her words were ''identally'' overheard by Sissi, whose eyes glinted, and she said to Amelia kindly,


    "Ms. Ramsay, my colleague has a little bit of a temper, but she means no malice."


    "Well, I know..." Amelia waved her hand, showing nonchnce. "Don''t you guys need the toilet? I


    won''t disturb you any longer."


    And with that, Amelia looked away and brushed past them.


    Lindsay snorted at Amelia''s fading figure and then said to Sissi, who was lost in her thoughts,


    "Sissi, look at her and her arrogant attitude. She''s so annoying!"


    Sissi stared at Lindsay with confusion. "What made you think she''s arrogant?"


    In all fairness, Amelia was extremely approachable. She was always smiling andughing with


    everyone around her, imprinting good impressions of herself onto others.


    However, this was exactly what Sissi feared the most. She was afraid Patrick would fall for her


    charms and could not extricate himself from her.


    Lindsay then replied with great prejudice, "Don''t you think so too? Look how high she holds her


    chin. She looks as if she''s afraid of going unnoticed."


    Sissi was rendered speechless upon hearing her.


    Instead of saying Amelia was looking down on them, it was more urate to say that Lindsay had


    the wrongful illusion of Amelia because of her short height.


    On the other side.


    After returning to the dining table, Amelia looked down at Patrick as he flipped through the


    magazine and sat down quietly.


    No one spoke for a while, and they did their own things.


    Not long after, Patrick shut the magazine, and his dark eyes swept at Amelia when he asked


    seemingly casually, "Why were you gone so long?"


    "I vomited a lot, so naturally, I was gone for a long time." After answering him, she then seemed to


    remember something and asked, "Oh, where''s Pauline?"


    Patrick vaguely told her what happened with Sissi being sshed with the drinks. Amelia gasped in


    surprise as a response, "How could that happen?


    Lindsay is seriously so clumsy."


    Patrick did notment on that and only continued, "Is there anything else you want to eat?"


    Amelia responded, "No, I don''t really have the appetite. I don''t think I can eat anything."


    Patrick then nodded, showing his concern when he said, "Let Dr. Scarlett take a look at you tonight.


    Nobody retches for no reason."


    Amelia''s eyelid twitched when she heard him and then answered perfunctorily, "Okay."


    Some moments passed...


    Pauline came running into the restaurant with a bag of clothes in hand. After nodding to Patrick from


    a distance away, she then darted to the bathroom.


    Not long after, Sissi who emerged from the corner was as beautiful, charming, and graceful as


    usual.


    However, her hair was tied up now, probably because it was still wet.


    "She deserved it!" thought Amelia.


    At the sight of Sissi, a faint hint of mockery was evident on Amelia''s expression.


    "Handsome, we''re back!"


    Before they even made it to the table, Lindsay''s voice reached them first. Lindsay was basically a


    human trumpet, announcing their return so loudly and mboyantly as if she was dering the


    arrival of a bridesmaid!


    Hearing her, Patrick then looked up at Sissi and asked, "Are you okay?"


    Sissi''s cheeks heated up when he focused on her. Sissi would have thrown herself at him if Amelia


    was not here with them.


    "I''m fine." Sissi was pulled back from her daze and said softly, "Fortunately, Pauline and Lindsay


    helped me sort it out. Sorry for making you worried about me, Patrick."


    What?!


    Amelia gritted her teeth and was so irked that she was shivering internally.


    Right then, Lindsay''s loud voice rang again, "Hmm, what''s that beside your hand?"


    Sissi''s heart skidded, then she replied, agitated, "Lindsay, it''s just some magazine. It''s nothing! The


    waiter identally dropped it beside my feet just now! I''ll bring it back to him now!"


    As soon as she finished speaking, Sissi grabbed the magazine from Patrick''s side without waiting


    for anyone''s reply. After holding it tightly within her grasp, she turned and dashed towards a corner


    of the restaurant.


    Watching Sissi''s looking as if she was fleeing, Lindsay scratched her head, puzzled. "Why is Sissi


    so strange today?" thought Lindsay.


    Sissi, who had strayed far away from them, leaned against the marble wall and panted lightly. Her


    face was scorching, and her heart was pounding in her ribcage.


    It seemed that she had overestimated herself. She was not fully ready to face Amelia and dere


    war against her yet!


    After all, she was nothing but Patrick''s past, while Amelia was the Mrs. Hopper recognized by the


    public.


    If Amelia found out she and Patrick went ces intimately together, then the next person who would


    be a joke to her colleagues would be Sissi herself!


    A waiter passed by Sissi and noticed her sticking herself against the wall. He could not help but


    come forward and ask with concern, "Miss, are you..."


    Sissi''s eyes flew open wide and shoved the wrinkled magazine into the waiter''s arms. She then


    said, "Your colleague dropped this just now. Please help me hand it over to him!"


    After handling the magazine, Sissi found out that Patrick had taken care of the bill. She then said to


    him, "I said I would pay the bill. Why did you get it before me?" "It''s okay. We''re friends, aren''t we?


    It''s the same anyway, so it doesn''t matter." Before Patrick could speak, Amelia''s delicate voice


    sounded jeeringly from beside him.


    A strange glint shed in Patrick''s eyes when Amelia said that. There was a kind of inscrutable


    sarcasm in her tone.


    Sissi gentle gaze then turned to Amelia. "Ms. Ramsay, from now on, you''re my friend too."


    In response, Amelia shed her a smile, bent down and retrieved a box of business cards from her


    leather bag. She then gave her business card to each of the three of them, saying, "Sissi is nice to


    me, so I''ll definitely return the same. Everyone, this is my business card. If you want to pave a road


    in front of your porch or build a house in the future, you''re more than weed to contact me at any


    time. I''ll give you a discount."


    Lindsay and Pauline did not give much thought to the card at first. But when they saw the line


    printed on the card saying ''President Amedia Ramsay, Highest Executive of Apex Construction


    Corporation'', their eyes almost popped out of their sockets from shock.