Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 146

I sat down on his bed and smiled bitterly, "But it won't be me."

"Why?" Seth got up and sat down beside me. Then he grabbed my hand and said, "Patrick has nothing to do with you anymore. He is going to marry Caroline Archer, right? I know all of this. You are an independent person. You are free. And you don't belong to anyone!"

I didn't pull back my hand. Instead, I let him hold my hand like this.

Seth looked at me and seemed to be a little anxious, "If you are worried about my parents, you can rest assured that I will handle them well and won't let the same thing happen again."

"But it's unfair to you."

"It doesn't matter. I don't care. I..."

"Seth." Before Seth could say something that made me feel more guilty, I interrupted him and said, "Seth, do you think that the relationship between me and Patrick just started from the moment when I married him on behalf of Caroline?"

"Isn't that so?"

Seth was stunned.

I shook my head gently, calmed myself down, and said slowly, "No, I love Patrick. I have been in love with him for many years. The first time I met him, I was ten years old..."

I sat next to Seth and told Seth everything about my first encounter with Patrick as well as my persistence over those years.

Besides Lisa, only Seth knew about this.

Seth sat there and listened to me quietly.

He let go of my hand and lowered his head. Then I heard a self-deprecating sneer.

He said, "I came to you too late."

"...I'm sorry, he hurt me like that. I indeed wanted to get him out of my mind. But I tried many times, only to find that I couldn't do it. I could only build a high wall in my heart so that he wouldn't hurt me. But he was inside my heart and I couldn't get him out."

If I could, I hoped strongly that the person I loved was Seth Hyde.

In that case, at least, I wouldn't have to work so hard.

Seth listened to me and nodded. "I know."

"I'm sorry."

Originally, I wanted to speak up for Angie. But after hesitating for a moment, I shut up.

It was Seth's own business. And I shouldn't interfere with his matter too much.

He sat down again, took a look at his cell phone, and got up. Then he said to me with a smile, "Let's go. Or you'll be late for work. I'll send you there."

At that time, the morning sun shone on his face as if it were a layer of holy light, making him so beautiful.

Staring at him, I was a little absent-minded for a moment.

"He is such a good man."

"It would be great if he was the one I loved."

I muttered to myself. Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Unfortunately, what had happened couldn't be undone.

Seth tidied up his clothes, took the bag for me, and opened the door for me.

We went downstairs together. Because of the tight time, he didn't check out. Instead, he sent me to work first.

He sent me to the company's door and handed me the bag. Then he waved to me and said, "When I come to City Y next time, I'll come to see you again."

I nodded, closed the car door, and watched the car disappear into the traffic. Then I turned around and entered the company.

As soon as I arrived at the office in the morning, I received a phone call from Dion. He asked me to go to his office.

I put down my bag and walked over there even before I could make a cup of coffee.

As soon as I entered Dion's office, he asked, "Charlotte Archer, which master of design did you turn to yesterday? He could even see such an intricate difference."

"He is my friend."

I smiled faintly.

Yes, Seth was the person whom I trusted the most.

Dion sat in an executive chair and said happily, "Because of the excellence of your work for the second round as well as the ridiculous incident of Mabel, it has been confirmed in advance that you have entered the final. Go back and be prepared for it well! Don't disgrace me!"

"Okay, Boss."

In fact, I wasn't surprised. After all, if none of us hadn't entered the final, the management of the company surely wouldn't have spent so much effort on the design competition.

Then I reported the work progress in recent days to Dion. He called a designer over and asked her to follow me so that she could take over my work at any time if I went to participate in the design competition.

I had been turning over my work to her the whole morning.

When I was free again, I found that my cell phone was still in the bag.

I took out my cell phone from my bag and saw two phone calls from Seth and several voice messages from him.

I didn't think overthink it as I clicked opened the voice messages. At first, it was noisy over the phone. And then Seth's voice came from inside.

"Charlotte, I'm sorry. I probably can't come to City Y to see you again..."

"Charlotte Archer, I love you."

"Why didn't you answer my call? I want to tell you this personally..."

"Ahem, I... Ahem."

"I love you, you have to be fine. You... Ahem. Ahem..."

"I love you..."

"I love you..."

"I... Ahem. Ahem. Ahem..."

Over the last few voice messages, he repeatedly said, "I love you".

At that moment, I suddenly felt extremely sore in my heart. And I breathed with difficulties!

An ominous premonition rose in my heart.

I picked up my cell phone and called Seth back. But no one answered my call.

"You have to be fine. You have to be fine!"

I was in a panic.

I called 911 and asked the staff if there was a car accident in the city or someone was sent to the hospital or something when Seth had called me in the morning.

The staff checked it and told me that there was no car accident, saying that there were a few other incidents instead.

I asked about the patient's age.

Then I thought that it should not be Seth.

However, I was very sure that something surely had happened to Seth.

Now it had been two hours since he called me.

Everything could happen to him in these two hours!

When I was at a loss, my cell phone rang.

And it was a call from Seth's phone number!

I picked up the call and shouted excitedly, "Seth!"

The one over the phone seemed to be stunned. After a moment of silence, he said, "Lady, do you know the owner of this cell phone?"

"Yes! What's wrong with him?"

I had been mentally prepared for it since it wasn't Seth who had answered my call.

The one over the phone introduced himself, saying that he was a staff of the People's Hospital lying in the middle between City Y and Seth's hometown, Town W. He picked Seth up at a high-speed route. Now Seth was in a very dangerous situation. However, because Seth's phone was locked. He couldn't contact his family.

It happened that I called Seth at that time. And they called me back directly before getting in touch with me...

When I heard what the one over the phone had said, I thought that I had heard something wrong.

After hanging up the phone, I took a taxi and went straight to the People's Hospital in Town W.

It took me an hour to get there.

After I got there, I rushed straight to the emergency room!

However, the lights in the emergency room had been turned off.

I rushed to the service desk and asked the one there about Seth's situation. A male doctor came over and saw me. And he asked, "You are Charlotte Archer, aren't you?"

"Yes." I nodded and went over to ask him anxiously, "Where is Seth Hyde? Where is he? How is he? Has he been out of danger?"

The male doctor looked at me. He was wearing a mask. So I couldn't see his expression clearly. I could only see that he frowned slightly and that there was some sadness in his eyes. Then he said to me, "Please have my condolence."