In the next few days, I had been living in Patrick's house in Unit No.1, City Y.
To my surprise, although Patrick asked me to sleep with him, he didn't have sex with me.
When Patrick went to work, servants would usually stay in the room. If I didn't call them, they wouldn't come out.
Then I earched inside and outside his house. But I didn't find any trace indicating that Caroline had visited here.
"Could it be that although I had seen Caroline show up in this residential quarter several times, she hadn't come to Patrick's house?"
"Then who did she visit here?"
After making sure that she didn't come to Patrick's house, I decided to go out during the day to look for a job.
Although it was March, it was still a little cold. But the floor heating in the house was no longer available. So if I stayed inside the house for a long time, I would feel chillingly cold.
That morning, I got up and waited for Patrick
to go out.
However, Patrick sat at home after breakfast. It seemed that he didn't want to leave at all.
"Aren't you going to work?"
I sat at the dining table across him and asked him.
Patrick elegantly touched the corner of his mouth with a tissue and looked at me. Unexpectedly, with a gentle expression on his face, he said, "It is the weekend today. I will accompany you."
"Accompanying me?"
Patrick said with a smile, "Yes. I'll take you out to have fun after breakfast."
"Going out to have fun?" I looked at Patrick with some suspicion, "Where are we going?"
"It's a secret."
Patrick looked mysterious.
I probably had been on guard against Patrick recently. As he treated me like this, I was somewhat ill at ease instead.
But I didn't say much.
After all, I was his lover now.
After breakfast, I changed my clothes and put on light makeup. By the time I went out, Patrick had already put on his clothes.
He was sitting on the sofa, drinking tea.
Seeing me go out, he looked up and down at me and said with a look of appreciation, "You're beautiful."
I didn't respond. Because I knew who I was well.
Never did I think that I was beautiful.
Patrick drove me to a private airport not far away from the downtown of City Y. When we entered the departure hall, I saw a lot of planes parked in the airport with all kinds of signs on them.
At first glance, I knew that the planes belonged to different companies.
Patrick took me to a middle-sized plane. At a glance, I recognized the logo of the Towering High Group on it.
"Are we going abroad?"
I was a little surprised.
In my opinion, if we weren't going abroad, we surely didn't have to take flight.
Patrick nodded and explained it to me, "But it's not too far away. You'll know the answer when you get there."
Although I wanted to ask more questions, I understood that if Patrick wanted to sell me, it wouldn't be of any use even if I insisted on getting down to the bottom of the matter.
It was the first time that I had boarded a private plane. In a large cabin, there were only a few seats. And there was a large-sized TV, a bathroom in the rear, as well as a separate bedroom where the passengers could sleep.
I strolled around the plane and then happily sat on a lounge chair, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
Patrick walked up to me and lowered his head. Then he looked at me with a serious and affectionate look on his face, "What are you thinking about?"
I looked at him and answered, "Caroline Archer."
When Patrick heard my answer, it was clear that he was a little surprised.
Before he could speak, I explained first, "I finally understand why she as well as other women have tried so hard to marry someone as rich as you. Sitting in transportation like this plane, they won't feel uncomfortable whenever they go, right?"
Although the Archer Family was rich, they weren't so rich as to afford a private plane.
Patrick sat on the armrest of my seat and gently stroked my short hair with his slender fingers. Then he said, "As the saying goes, it's easy to abandon a frugal life and live an extravagant life. But it is not the same case if it is the other way around. I'll give you the best things in the world in the future so that you can't live without me from now on."
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