Come To Me (Amelia and Patrick)
Chapter 334

"Good!" Amelia became excited by this and then noticed Patrick getting ready to go upstairs to get Andrew and Ashley, she immediately said, "Ashley just fell asleep. Let's wait until she wakes up." In the afternoon, at Maplewood Zoo.

Andrew and Ashley were surprised. They did not expect that after the parent-teacher conference yesterday Patrick was still blaming them, but today he actually brought them to the zoo. Arriving at the destination, the four of them got off the car. From others' view, they were definitely a happy family.

They bought tickets to the zoo, where a row of tour buses parked in front of them. Considering the zoo was too large and the route was too complex, and Amelia was worried about the two kids would be lost, Patrick temporarily rented an open- top tour bus.

As the car traveled, they saw many animals in the grass, and along the way, the bold Ashley even took the fruit from the keeper to feed the giraffe that chased their car.

Sometimes, half of Ashley's body almost hanging in the air outside the tour bus, Amelia watched this thrilling scene, rushed to reach out to stop her, to prevent her from falling out.

Ashley, not sensing any danger at all, turned her head and gleefully said to Amelia, "Auntie Amelia, I want to see the male lion and the female lion!"

"Sit upright first, and then I'll talk to you." Amelia strongly requested.

Ashley hurriedly sat down and smiled sweetly at Amelia, "Auntie, is this okay?"

Amelia nodded and eased the solemn look on her face. "You seem to like lions very much?"

The last time she saw the African lions in "The Animal World ", Ashley's eyes were fixed on them.

Ashley giggled, "No, I want to see if the male lion is really that good that he can do it eight times a day!"

Amelia was speechless.

Just then, Andrew, who was watching the horses, turned to look at Amelia, his face full of anticipation, "I want to ride a horse!"

Horse riding? Amelia recalled that Patrick once taught Maryanne how to ride a horse on the horse farm. So she tilted her head and said to Patrick, "Can you teach Andrew how to ride a horse?"

"He has won the equestrian competition in the junior group, does he still need me to teach him?" Said Patrick, glancing at Andrew.

Under Amelia's surprised look, Andrew rubbed the back of his head and innocently said to her, "If you don't know how, I'll be happy to teach you."

Amelia suddenly thought that the men of The Hopper Family were so cool, even this kid could do horsemanship. She was an inferior player by comparison. "Andrew..." Patrick gave Andrew a suggestive stare.

Andrew reacted and immediately changed his mind, "But I'm too short to teach your lordship, Uncle Patrick has better horsemanship, so let him teach you." "Huh?" Did she say she wanted to learn?

Patrick interjected, "Since you want to learn so much, I'll reluctantly teach you, let's get off from the car."

"I think I'd better not..." Amelia said anxiously, "I'm not good at sports."

Patrick looked at her suspiciously, "You're not saying that because you're afraid of falling off your horse, are you?"

"I'm not!" Amelia said immediately, but the distress on her face had betrayed her.

It was the first time Patrick didn't laugh at her, instead, he said gently, "Don't worry, I will share a horse with you and protect you."

At the horse farm.

Upon realizing that she was being held in Patrick's arms while his hands were wrapped around her body holding the reins, she had the feeling of being protected by him.

"Are you getting too close to me?" Amelia whispered.

"Don't be nervous. I always teach people to ride horses like this."

Patrick's eyes were fixed on Amelia in his arms. If it were usual, she would have turned and pushed him away, but this time he deliberately let the horse run, so bumpy that she had to grab his hand on the reins, and her delicate body leaned further into his arms!

If he had known that, he should have brought her to the stable earlier. It was enjoyable to see her nervous!

Distracting herself when she was scared was the best thing Amelia could do. Amelia looked over to her two children and found Ashley being carried on the horse by the trainer with Andrew's encouragement. Ashley was naughty by nature, looking at the horse's gentle nature, she actually reached out and grabbed its mane, causing the horse to neigh, spreading its legs and running away from the trainer and Andrew. Ashley was so scared that she screamed hysterically, "Help..."

"Ashley!" Seeing Ashley's body swaying left and right on the horse, Amelia's eyes widened and she almost forgot she was still on the horse, pushing Patrick away and trying to jump down! "Calm down!" Patrick, who also witnessed the scene, yelled low in her ear.

The frightened horse could not run out of the yard no matter how hard it ran. Seeing it running around the circle in front of him, Patrick's one hand which was around Amelia's waist suddenly tightened the reins and the other hand quickly reached for the horse running towards him and said to the frightened Ashley, "Hold the horse's neck tight!"

Ashley was a troublemaker but also a very resourceful child. After hearing Patrick's words, she reflexively got on the horse's back and circled its neck with her small hands.

Not long after, just as the frightened horse passed Patrick, it was yanked by Patrick's strong hand on the reins from behind, and its gallop was slowed...

At that moment, the trainer happened to be riding over to help. It was not hard for two professional men to stabilize a horse, and as the horse stomped to a stop, Patrick breathed a sigh of relief and then said to the trainer, "Take her down."

"Sure... yes." The trainer at this time was also too nervous out of sweat. If it were not for Patrick, their zoo might have trouble!

Without bothering to comfort Ashley, Patrick whispered to a somewhat frozen Amelia, "It's already okay..."

Amelia gave him a dumbfounded look as she said nervously, "What about you? Show me your hand."

"There's no need." Patrick jumped off the horse sharply with her in his arms, then quickly released her, the hand that had pulled Ashley's horse silently behind his back, refusing to let her check.

"Uncle... Aunt..." Ashley knew she had made big trouble, but didn't dare to cry. She stifled her tears and came to Patrick and Amelia with a guilty look.

Patrick reached out to stop Amelia, who wanted to go over and comfort Ashley, and asked Ashley in a condescending manner, "You know you did something wrong?"