Chapter 760


    Lucy checked in the same hotel as Patrick did. She stayed in the suite next to him. Last night, she left


    the bar and watched him return to his room. Patrick closed the door, and it seemed that everything was


    normal.


    Lucy knew that Patrick was a good drinker, so he couldn’t have gotten drunk after a dozen cups of


    cocktails. She felt that something was wrong.


    If it weren’t for the fact that the presidential suite of this hotel was toorge and soundproof, she


    nned to eavesdrop through the wall.


    Patrick was the kind of person who always had a reason for everything he did, so Lucy felt that it was


    unnecessary to worry about him.


    The reason why he drank so many cocktails that he didn’t like was probably that he was nning to set


    up arge nightclub. Nobody could figure out his real intentions, but all they knew was that Mr. Hopkins


    was super rich


    Lucy fell asleep in peace. However, what happened the next morning perplexed her.


    She opened the door and was about to go downstairs to the lobby of the hotel to have a delicious


    breakfast, then she saw that the door of the suite next door opened.


    The hotel’s room service manager respectfully walked in with two bags of new clothes of brand men’s


    wear.


    Lucy paid no attention to it and she thought that Patrick probably took a shower after getting up and he


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    just needed to get changed.


    When Lucy passed by, she nced quickly into the room out of her professional habit and she saw that


    there was faint white smoke from the room, and the smell of burning filled the air. She quickly turned


    left and rushed in with anxiety


    Lucy knew that she would never get away with it if Gary and the others got to know that Patrick had an


    ident when he went out with her. Lucy was only 17 years old at that time, so she was too naive and


    always worried too much about it


    “Mr. Hopkins!” Lucy shouted while she was running.


    The suite was veryrge, and she had to look for him from room to room.


    Finally, Lucy found Patrick in the bathroom of the main bedroom. He was wearing his new clothes and


    he was handsome and cool. He stood straight in the corner of the bathroom, burning the clothes that


    he wore yesterday


    The old clothes were aze since he had poured a lot of alcohol on them.


    At that moment, the thought that popped up in Lucy’s mind was that Patrick was destroying “the


    evidence of his


    crime”


    The manager of the hotel did not dare to say anything when he saw what Patrick was doing. He stood


    at the door of the bathroom and there was a worried expression on his face. His concern was that it


    might start a fire, but he did not dare to stop it.


    Patrick red fiercely at the raging me with a deep hatred.


    Normally, Patrick always had a reason for his-action.


    However, Lucy did not understand why he would burn his clothes.


    Lucy was so confused this time and she couldn’t think of a reasonable exnation for Patrick’s


    behaviors. Patrick definitely wouldn’t do something against his conscience, for example, he killed


    someone and now he destroyed the evidence by burning his clothes.


    “Mr. Hopkins,” Lucy called him uncertainly.


    The clothes turned to ashes in the fire, but Patrick still had a lot of pent-up anger to release. He turned


    on the tap to the maximum. He wanted to tip the dirty water with ashes down the drain without any


    trace or sign.


    The manager looked at his operation and it made his hair stand on end.


    Lucy was sure that there must be some secrets about the clothes.


    Patrick stepped out of the bathroom with a cold face, Lucy quickly followed him, “What should I do?”


    She was very conscious of her duty.


    There were definitely some reasons for burning his clothes.


    Patrick would never mention to anyone for the rest of his life that he actually had a hard-on because of


    thinking about a woman and he woke up to find the white seminal stain on his pants.


    It was a great humiliation for him.


    Although his pants were burned to ashes and flushed down the drain, the feelings of humiliation were


    not released.


    There was something indefinable in Patrick’s eyes. He looked at Lucy narrowly for the first time, “I don’t


    want to see you.” He said in a low and serious voice.


    Lucy was totally at a loss.


    Different from the sensational expressions in romantic films such as “I don’t want to see you anymore”,


    what Patrick spoke to Lucy at that moment was serious without any emotions.


    What he meant was that Lucy would get in trouble if she stayed with him.


    Patrick did not talk to her anymore. He turned around and left with a scowl. Lucy noticed that his tread


    was heavier than usual, which indicated that Mr. Hopkins was in a bad mood at that moment


    No wonder he would directly ask Lucy to leave.


    Lucy stood there for a while. The manager said timidly, “Is this gentleman your friend? Mydy.”


    Lucy red at him fiercely. “You’d better not stickybeak.” She behaved as if she was in a gang.


    The innocent manager felt that these two guests were not simple, so he had to report to his superiors.


    Lucy didn’t even have the appetite to have breakfast. She quickly picked up the phone and gave an


    international call to Gary to discuss it. She shouted, “It seems that something happened to Mr.


    Hopkins!”


    Patrick also felt that there was something wrong with his body.


    This woman, whose name was unknown to him, had always been on his mind, and the sudden sexual


    attraction interfered with him at night because of missing her.


    The unprecedented embarrassment, humiliation, and mixed feelings made him extremely unpleasant.


    Patrick didn’t understand why he was so edgy.


    He ordered ck coffee, which was bitter, in the lobby of the hotel. Patrick drank three cups of coffee


    but he still could not think of any possible exnation.


    The women passing by gazed at him, Patrick looked up at them as usual and realized that they were a


    little bit


    gauche and shy.


    There were very few questions that Patrick could not figure out. He thought that it was not because of


    the female student he met yesterday afternoon. She was not special. It was true that she was cute, she


    was not a great beauty though. Patrick had an undefinable feeling about her.


    Patrick found a reasonable exnation for himself,


    He was suddenly shocked at that time. The beautiful scenery of the sunset and dusk as well as the


    quiet streets and gentle music left a deep impression on him, so the memory of that day was indelibly


    printed on his brain.


    Today was Sunday. Patrick nned to take a break and hung around in this strange city.


    It was ironic that, currently, Patrick was eager to let the woman in the scenery get out of his mind.


    Patrick left the hotel. He didn’t take a taxi. He dressed in thin clothes like yesterday, wearing


    headphones and listening to gentle music. He was strolling aimlessly in this strange city.


    The sun had juste up in the morning, Patrick walked through some small parks and saw some


    citizens ying with their children, but he had no feelings for such warm scenes,


    At noon, the sun was high in the sky and his feet were sore after the walk, so he randornly found a


    chair under a big tree and then sat down. He was not hungry and did not want to find something to eat.


    He had never been interested in delicious food.


    Patrick walked along a road beside a river. The wind by the river was strong, and it was freezing cold


    after Christmas. There were only a few people by the river. Patrick could bear with the low temperature,


    so he deliberately walked in the cold wind and wanted to let it blow off all his troubles.


    It was not until 5 p.m. that the sun began to go down


    The wind by the river was freezing cold at that time. Patrick felt much better. His hands, arms, and face


    were as cold as ice in the wind, and he also calmed down.


    “That’s good.” He thought.


    He didn’t have to bother with the female student yesterday. It was not a big deal.


    Patrick’s mind was at ease, and he felt a little bit hungry now. He walked to the main road in front of


    him and wanted to take a taxi to the hotel. Suddenly, a woman passed by quickly on a bicycle,


    Patrick froze at that moment. There was a sound in his brain as if a big stone dropped in a pool and it


    rippled. He was left staring after her and watched her receding figure. He somehow felt that he was


    quite familiar with her.


    His body somehow reacted faster than his brain. Patrick immediately lengthened his stride to keep up


    with the


    woman on the bicycle.


    “What’s the matter?” The woman asked.


    The frame of the woman’s bicycle was pulled by Patrick at the back. She looked back with fear and


    nervousness, but she unexpectedly saw a handsome man with a strange expression on his face.


    Patrick had mixed feelings at that moment.


    He mistook her for someone else.


    He did not understand why he was so excited just because they had simr figures.


    Patrick’s face darkened. Anger and restlessness clutched at his heart again.