Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick)
Chapter 333

Patrick leaned his back on the chair and said easily, "To demean the rich for the purpose of satisfying the pride of the poor. Well, I reluctantly accept your reasoning."

The English teacher was a young lady. Being reprimanded by Patrick in front of all the students' parents, she almost burst into tears.

Amelia sympathized with her and whispered to Patrick, "It's OK, don't go too far."

However, Patrick didn't say a word.

Amelia took this moment to reassure the English teacher and to get off the subject. Seeing how sincere Amelia was, the English teacher reluctantly smiled and put down Ashley's test paper, and left. Ashley was moved to pat Patrick's shoulder, "You're so nice!"

To her surprise, Patrick responded coldly, "Don't get cocky, I'll deal with you later."

That he argued with the English teacher didn't mean he's not mad at her for getting a 30 on the test!

Ashley rushed closer to Amelia and said pitifully, "Uncle listens to you the most. Please persuade him to be nice to me!"

Amelia glanced at Ashley and said, "This is the reason why you cheated me into going to school?"

Ashley said sincerely, "No, Uncle Patrick is representing my daddy in this parent-teacher conference, so I think we should replace someone else to represent my mommy to make it complete, and in my mind, you are the one most suitable!"

Hearing such a statement, Amelia was not angry and finally could only rub Ashley's head.

On the other side, Patrick was already lecturing Andrew, "Tell me, why didn't you write the essay?"

Unlike Ashley's poor grades, Andrew's grades had always been very good, so when he saw the 70 points on the English paper, Patrick acted far more surprised than when he saw Ashley's 30 points. Just because Andrew didn't do the essay, other than that, he got all the questions right!

Andrew touched his left eye, which was still a little bruised, and said honestly, "My eyes hurt so much at the time, it felt like I was going blind, so I turned in my paper early."

"I see..." Patrick nodded as a form of approval for the reason for Andrew.

Ashley pounded the table in anger, "Huh! Andrew is so cunning, he even used his eyes as an excuse, why wasn't it me who was blind at that time!"

Patrick sneered and said, "Even if you're blind, you can't change the fact that you aren't good at study."

Ashley tugged on Amelia's clothes and cried, "Uncle is so rude!"

Gee, wasn't that a fact that Ashley admitted herself? Amelia wondered.

After the parent-teacher conference, Patrick got up and said to Ashley, "When you get home, copy the passages in your textbook that you need to memorize 100 times, and if you don't finish it, you won't go to bed tonight."

Ashley felt scared, "I... I have class tomorrow!"

"It's Sunday tomorrow." Patrick didn't fall for it.

"But I..."

Patrick raised his eyebrows, "Or do you want me to just hire you an English tutor? And hire a math tutor, too, because you're failing both subjects anyway."

"No, no..." Ashley took Amelia's hand and said to Patrick, "I'm fine with Aunt Amelia as my tutor!"

Patrick thought it was because of this that he had to hire a tutor for Ashley, otherwise she would be hogging Amelia all day long after school and he wouldn't have any alone time with Amelia.

Not only Ashley, but Amelia was also intimidated by the 100 times, so she suggested, "100 times is a bit much. It's better to learn step by step."

"Then let's start by copying from 10 times." Patrick changed his mind and crossed over to them to move forward.

Although copying 100 times or 10 times was an impossible task tonight, Ashley was relieved and once again determined that tricking Amelia into coming to school was the right thing to do. At night, at Land of Fragrance.

"What? Their parents are going back to Northville tomorrow?"

Amelia, who was sipping tea in the living room, put down her cup of tea after hearing Patrick's words.

Patrick put his phone on the coffee table and said somewhat lazily, "Well, I guess they'll be able to pick up Andrew and Ashley from home at noon the day after tomorrow."

Seeing Amelia's distracted look, he continued, "I know you can't let them go, but they're my brother's children after all, so if you like them, just visit them more often at my brother's house." Although he reassured Amelia, Patrick's heart cried out "Great!"

Amelia didn't sound too comfortable, but couldn't help but accept the reality that yes...as deep as the feelings were, they were his brother's children and she couldn't stop them from leaving. On Sunday, early morning.

Ashley, with two dark circles under her eyes, handed a homework exercise book to Amelia: "Auntie, I've copied it..."

Amelia yawned. No matter how much she asked Patrick last night, he just wouldn't agree to let Ashley copy that 10 times after she woke up from her sleep.

So she had no choice but to take Ashley back to the second bedroom and stay with Ashley, so the kid wouldn't be afraid to be alone at night.

After taking the workbook and checking it roughly, Amelia found a number of typos, but Ashley, who had been up all night, was already tired on the table, so it would be too strict to call her up to correct her work.

Amelia said in a gentle tone, "Ashley, if you are sleepy, go to sleep on the bed."

"Um..." Ashley slid down the chair and fell asleep as soon as she touched the bedside.

In the living room.

Patrick waved the workbook in his hand and said with dissatisfaction, "What's this? A scrawled talisman?"

Amelia tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear and said seriously, "This is the one you punished Ashley for copying 10 times. Don't tell me you can't read English."

Patrick snorted and said, "English? I thought it was a five-line score. Ashley is clearly perfunctory, and only you will be soft on her."

Amelia said disapprovingly, "It's you who are too strict. It's a pity that she likes you so much."

Patrick frowned deeply as if he felt her resentment, "What's wrong with you? You've been feeling something wrong since last night." Amelia turned back unnaturally. "I'm not..."

Patrick had already seen it. He got up from the couch and embraced her, "Is it because they are leaving? You don't want them to leave?" Amelia said gloomily, "If I say 'yes', won't it make me seem selfish?"

Patrick kissed her cheek. He said in a low voice, "In fact, I also don't want them to leave."

"Really?" Amelia was a little surprised.

Of course, it was a lie, he couldn't wait for those two kids to leave! But in order to see her smile, he still lied in good conscience.

Considering that today was the last day of caring for these two children, Patrick graciously said, "Tell you what, today happens to be the weekend, why don't we take them to the zoo or a playground to relax?"