Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 242

There was no sim card on my cell phone. Consequently, without connecting to Wi-Fi, I couldn't browse any news online.

The reason why I did so was that I was afraid that Patrick would find me.

After I input the keywords, a lot of pieces of breaking news along with their relative comments popped up on the Facebook newsfeed.

I roughly read the news. Shelton called the police that day. After the police arrived and confirmed the location of the accident, divers were asked to go beneath the sea to find the black box on the sunken yacht.

After three days of searching, the divers didn't find the black box.

On the whole yacht, they only found a female corpse and a suitcase.

The photo of the suitcase was attached in the news.

Taking a look at it, I was sure that it was my suitcase.

According to the news, based on the items inside the suitcase and the people who had

left the island, the police preliminarily identified the identity of the deceased.

As for who the deceased female was...

The answer was self-evident.

When I returned to the hotel, I found the door to my room slightly open.

As soon as I pushed the door open, I saw Shelton coming out of the suite in a panic. When he saw me, he, who was stunned, walked up to me with a look of relief as he asked accusingly, "Where have you been? Why didn't you tell me?"

"I..." I hesitated for a moment and said, "I have been dreaming of Caroline recently. So I went to a temple..."

"To pray for her soul?"

Before I could finish my words, Shelton interrupted me.

"It's not like that. I just went there to pay my respects, hoping that she could reincarnate as soon as possible," I said.

Hearing what I said, Shelton rubbed my hair with his hands and smiled helplessly, "You're so good that you are repaying good for evil. How can others repay your kindness?"

"Since she is dead, let bygones be bygones."

In fact, Caroline was dead, and I was deceased as well in Patrick's heart. Now I felt inexplicably relieved in my heart.

I wouldn't have to fear that someone would come to hurt my child.

Shelton took out a small-sized sim card from his pocket and gave it to me, "Here is a new sim card. Use it in case I can't find you."

"Okay."

"And, I still have something to do in City Y. But you didn't have a sim card on your cell phone. Fearing that I couldn't contact you. I was so worried about you that I came back. I have to go back

tomorrow." As Shelton spoke, he pulled over a suitcase to him and said, "I know that if I give you a bank card, you surely won't bear to spend my money. So I asked one of my nurses to buy some clothes for you to wear here."

As he spoke, he bent down and unlocked the suitcase.

The suitcase was filled with all sorts of clothes and pants.

Shelton was different from Patrick.

The clothes he bought were all casual clothes. With a glance at them, I knew that I would feel comfortable once I wore them.

I stood there, inserted the sim card into my cell phone, and said, "Mr. Shelton, don't worry about me. I have got a place to go to in the future."

"What?" Hearing what I said, Shelton became nervous. He stood up and walked to me, "Are you afraid of causing me trouble? No. I don't think there's any trouble. And, I am the one who proposed your fake death. I'd returned and found out that the police, the Cowell Family, and Archer Family all seemed to think you were the corpse on the yacht."

"It's not like that. I think you are right. I want to become a better me." This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

I told Shelton everything, including my meeting Ryan and the fact that I would learn from him.

After hearing me out, Shelton looked even more serious. "No, take me to him. Or I'll be worried."

"Well..."

"Otherwise, I won't agree. Nowadays, a lot of people are pretending to be masters."

It struck me that he was worried about my safety.

If it were someone else, I might have minded that he had intervened in my matters too much. However, hearing Shelton say so, I agreed.

That night, I asked Ryan out to have dinner together.

Shelton and Ryan sat across each other. Although the gap between their ages was 20 years, unexpectedly, they shared a lot of common topics.

Ryan had a weird character. However, when he chatted with Shelton, he seemed to be talking to an acquaintance of his.

After meeting Ryan this time, Shelton was relieved.

The New Year was around the corner. Ryan planned to go abroad for a trip.

Originally, he wanted to ask me to go abroad with him. But I refused.

After the New Year holiday, I probably wouldn't go back to City Y in a short time. Before that, I hoped to pay my respect to Rosy and talk to her one last time.

Admittedly, Shelton was quite meticulous.

To hide the fact that I faked my death, he rented a car in City S and drove me back to City Y.

It was an extremely long journey. At the very least, he had to drive for two days.

At the beginning of the journey, we only listened to music. And we just kept repeating the same songs.

Feeling bored, I turned off the music and asked, "Mr. Shelton, can I ask you something?"

"Okay." It seemed that Shelton wasn't surprised after he heard my words. He said, "Whatever you want to ask, I will tell you the truth."

I asked him about the matter of his sponsoring me first.

Shelton looked ahead as if he were thinking about things that had happened a long time ago.

After a moment of silence, he said, "When I was a child, my family was poor. And studying medicine cost my family a lot of money. At that time, to earn tuition fees and scholarships, I had exerted too much effort. When my conditions were a little better later, I hoped to help others with my strength."

"Then you came to my orphanage, right?"

"Well, it was quite close to a hospital where I used to work." Shelton paused and continued to say, "I turned to your dean. He gave me the information about the children who would go to college soon. I took a fancy to you at a glance."

When I heard his words, I burst out laughing, "In fact, in my mind, I always thought you were an old man. But I didn't expect you to be a few years older than me."

"Thank you. It's a good thing that I wasn't a cocky man in your heart."

As Shelton focused on driving, he glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and slightly curled up the corner of his mouth.

"I also want to ask you about the matter of Archer's Group..."

As soon as I mentioned this matter, Shelton looked a little sad, "Sorry, I thought you and your grandmother were on good terms and you wouldn't want to see Archer's Group fall into the hands of irrelevant people."

"Thank you. I will pay the money back to you."

What Shelton had said was right.

If Archer's Group had fallen into someone else's hands, I would take it back if I was financially capable one day.

"Okay."

Shelton didn't refuse.

And he didn't set up a time limit for me either.

It took us nearly three days to drive to City Y from City S.

On the afternoon of the third day, we were caught in a traffic jam when we were less than 100 kilometers away from City Y!

We waited there for a while. But no car moved ahead of us.

After being stuck on the expressway for a day, Shelton and I decided to get out of the car and walk around.

After asking the ones ahead of us, we knew that there was a serial car accident. Only one ambulance had been sent here. However, it couldn't accommodate all the injured. A lot of medical staff were rescuing the injured ahead.

Hearing so, Shelton immediately took off his watch and handed it along with his cell phone to me. Then he said, "Wait here. I'll go and see what's going on ahead."

"I'm with you!"

As I spoke, I trotted to catch up with him.