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There was even a faint smile on his face.
“E–Edward?”
I must have looked like I’d just seen a ghost, scrambling to push Edward away.
“Patrick, I–I made a mistake… Edward wasn’t wearing glasses today, so I thought… I thought it was you…”
By the end, my voice was trembling, nearly breaking into sobs.
Even my eyes had turned red.
I stood there, flustered and panicked, my whole expression a mess of guilt and confusion.
Patrick yanked me behind him and shot me a sharp glare.
“Michelle, seriously? You can’t even recognize your own man?”
“I’m sorry…” I choked out, then bit my lip and snuck a glance at Edward.
“I’m really sorry, Edward. I didn’t mean to… I really thought you were him…”
Edward gave me a brief look. “It’s not your fault. Twins get mistaken for each other all the time.”
Then, he turned to Patrick.
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His voice was calm but carried an undercurrent of subtle menace.
“Patrick, you didn’t have to be so harsh with her.”
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Patrick gave me his usual careless grin. “She’s the one being ridiculous. She’s shared a bed with me for a year and still can’t tell us apart?”
“She’s only met me once,” Edward replied. “Mistaking us is completely reasonable.”
Patrick raised a brow. “Fine. I’ll apologize to her, then.”
Edward didn’t say anything else and turned to leave.
Patrick stood there for a few seconds longer before he slowly turned back to me.
He gave the paper bag in his hand a little shake, his expression unreadable.
“Come upstairs. Let me see where you’re hurt. I’ll put the ointment on for you.”
My fingers dug into my palms.
If I wasn’t wrong, Patrick had spent last night with another woman.
And now he wanted to touch me.
A wave of nausea hit me out of nowhere, but I forced it down.
I followed him back to the room.
He washed his hands and looked down at me, his gaze cold and sharp.
“Take it off. Lie down.”
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I flinched slightly and looked up at him. I pretended not to understand, my voice soft and wounded. “Patrick, why are you being so harsh with me today?”
Over the past year, maybe to win me over, or maybe out of some genuine affection, he had always treated me gently.
This was the first time he spoke to me so coldly.
“Are you still upset that I mistook Edward for you?”
“No.” He cut me off abruptly. “You’re overthinking it. I’m just worried about your injury. Is it still bleeding? Let me take a look.”
His voice returned to the same softness he usually used.
But all I felt was a deep, creeping fear.
The truth was, when Patrick first started pursuing me, I rejected him again and again.
I only said yes out of fear.
Someone had warned me that Patrick used to date a very proud dancer.
He chased her for a long time before she gave in, thinking she was the one who had finally tamed him.
After they got together, she acted spoiled and self–assured, and at first, he actually seemed to like it. He indulged her, let her have her way.
But not even six months in, he got bored.
Soon enough, he had his eyes on someone new.
The woman didn’t take it well. She made a huge scene by smashing up
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his car and humiliating him in front of his friends.
Patrick didn’t react.
But just a few days later, word got around that she had had an accident. She fell from the stage during a rehearsal.
She survived, but ended up paralyzed from the waist down. Her life was ruined.
The person who told me that story also warned me.
“Michelle, you should be careful. Don’t push him too far. I heard that he’s been asking around about your family. We can’t mess with a guy like Patrick.”
I was terrified of dying and even more terrified of living a life worse than death, so I gave in.
Since we got together, I had always been cautious around him.
For a whole year, Patrick treated me well. He seemed truly devoted to
- me.
At times I would catch myself dreaming impossible dreams, and on other days I wasn’t fully clear–headed. But I never imagined that I had lowered myself to such a pitiful place, only to be treated like a pawn, casually handed over to another man. My mind was in total chaos.
My head was a mess.
Patrick pressed me down to sit.
He crouched in front of me, his fingers gently wrapping around my ankle. Then, he spread my legs apart.
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“You must have been teasing me last night,” he said with a soft laugh, glancing up at me. “Otherwise, why would I lose control like that?”
He slowly lifted the hem of my dress.
I turned my head away and bit down hard on my lip, trying to hold back the wave of nausea rising in my chest.
Just as he was about to pull away the last thin layer of fabric, a knock sounded at the door.
“Patrick, come to the study with me. Now.” Edward’s voice came from outside the door, heavy with intimidation and restrained anger.
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