Patrick's attention was not on Cynthia. He raised his eyebrows and asked Amelia, "Were you in a restaurant?"
Amelia asked in confusion, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
After a pause, Patrick's said slowly, "Nothing."
Being stared at by Patrick like this, Amelia felt uncomfortable as if she had done something wrong. She changed the topic, "Do you want to go in?"
Upon hearing this, Patrick became a little unhappy. He came to the hospital during working hours to see Amelia, not Cynthia!
Since Amelia didn't care when he cared about Cynthia, he might as well...
While thinking about this, Patrick said with a meaningful smile, "Okay, Cynthia is my employee and I should care about her, right?"
With a slight frown, Amelia said reluctantly, "Of course, you're always a good boss who cares about female employees."
She emphasized the word "female" and Patrick knew what she meant. However, he said deliberately, "Yes, especially in bed."
"You..." Amelia was about to lose her temper, but she stopped because making loud noise in the hospital was forbidden.
Patrick felt that Amelia's angry face was so cute. It turned out that she also had other emotions besides calmness.
He reached out his hand to rub her hair mischievously and said, "Except you, I will only take care of other female employees in the hospital bed."
Amelia was stunned. Does Patrick mean that he had no ambiguous relationships with female employees including Cynthia?
In the ward.
Cynthia had already woken up. Her face looked so pale and weak.
After hearing Cynthia's miserable experience, his father burst into tears and said, "My poor daughter! If it weren't for your elder brother, you didn't have to be bullied by that boss!"
Leaning against the pillow, Cynthia said weakly, "I don't blame brother. It's my own fate..."
Then Cynthia's eyes gradually widened because she saw Patrick. She burst into tears and said "Patrick, are you here to see me?"
Her father quickly gave his chair to Patrick and said, "Please have a seat."
Patrick waved his hand and refused to sit down, "Uncle, did something bad happen to your family?"
Cynthia's father told Patrick the truth with a crying face, "My son gambled and was in a debt. In order to let the boss give us some more time to raise money, Cynthia promised to be his girlfriend. The boss was so generous at that time and canceled all our debts. We were relieved and didn't care about this matter anymore. But I didn't except that the boss almost tortured Cynthia to death."
Patrick glanced at Cynthia and said, "Since the boss is so narrow-minded, how did you escape?"
Cynthia clenched her fists and she said with a complicated expression, "Madam Amelia Ramsay and her friend... saved me."
"Where did she save you?" Patrick asked carefully.
"Delicious Restaurant."
"Did she eat with a man or a woman?"
Cynthia said with cold eyes, "A man!"
Patrick became unhappy. He asked Amelia to stay at home to rest and have a house cleaning, but Amelia went to see her male friend!
Out of the corner of Patrick's eye, he suddenly saw Amelia at the door. He became happy, reached out to patter the back of Cynthia's hand and said softly, "Have a good rest. I'll come to see you tomorrow."
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