Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 261

A week later, I almost finished the landscape gardening design. After communicating with Calvin, I could get the indoor design started. Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

Speaking of indoor design, I was only in charge of a small part of it.

It would take me two weeks to finish it.

That afternoon, as soon as I came out of the Institute of Architecture Design, I saw Shelton standing at the entrance.

Standing against the sun, he, who wore a white shirt, looked handsome and warm.

When we had lunch together, I told him I would come here in the afternoon. I didn't expect that he would come here to wait for me.

Walking up to him quickly, I asked, "How come you are waiting for me here?"

"Yes." Shelton took the documents over from my hand and asked me gently, "Do you have time tonight?"

"What's the matter?"

In theory, Shelton knew my working hours and schedule on usual days quite well.

In City Y, except for him, I didn't interact with anyone else.

He specifically asked me whether I was available this time, indicating that he surely had a plan.

Looking at me, Shelton looked a little nervous. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Here is the case. Dad wants me to take you home."

"Your father?"

I did a quick calculation and realized that Shelton was talking about Ned Cowell.

Ned was Patrick's grandfather.

I didn't want to go to Ned's house.

I thought so in my heart. Even so, I didn't say it out loud. I looked up and asked Shelton, "How did he know about me? Did you tell him about me?"

"No." Shelton shook his head slightly, "Patrick should have told him about you. He suddenly asked me about you today. I couldn't refuse him."

He looked at me with a nervous and somewhat expectant expression on his face.

I realized that the fact that he told me the truth meant that he wanted me to go there.

I hesitated for a moment. "Patrick..."

"Patrick probably won't go there today."

Shelton answered.

Hearing Shelton's words, I felt a little relieved and nodded, "Okay, I'll go with you."

Although I hadn't formally agreed to be with Shelton, I couldn't deny that he was indeed a good person and that he was quite suitable to be Glenn's father.

Seeing that I had agreed, Shelton became completely relaxed and said gently, "If you don't want to go there, you can refuse."

"Of course not. As the saying goes, an ugly daughter- in- law has to see her in- laws eventually." I looked up at Shelton and smiled at him.

"You are not ugly."

Resting his hand on my shoulder, Shelton took me in his arms.

A faint smell of disinfectant drifted into my nose, making me inexplicably at ease.

I took a look at my clothes and glanced at my watch, "What time will the dinner start? Will it be too late for me to go back now and get changed?"

"I'll go buy a set with you," Shelton said quite naturally.

"There's no need forthat. I...'

"Don't refuse me. It's just a set of clothes."

Since he had said so, it wasn't appropriate for me to continue refusing him.

Shelton took me to a mall named Star Department Store in City Y where I had visited several times. I, who was familiar with it, naturally knew where the clothes fitting with my style were.

I took Shelton to a store selling traditional clothes.

There were various kinds of traditional clothes. And the price difference lay in the fabric and the embroidery.

Star Department Store was a quite high-end store. Most of the clothes sold inside were made of silk fabrics with handmade embroidery on them. The accessories on them were all genuine treasures.

As soon as I entered the store, a set featuring light purple and white color at the door caught my eyes. With a sleeved overdress outside, the set had a long dress inside.

It fit this season perfectly well.

"Have a try."

Seeing me glancing at the set, Shelton instantly knew I liked it. So he patted me on the shoulder and said.

I looked at him in surprise.

With a smile at the corner of his lips, he said, "I've been with you for so long. I surely know what clothes you like."

A clerk came over and heard Shelton's words. She immediately took the set off and handed it over to me with great respect, "Madam, it is of the M size, the only one in the whole City Y."

"Isn't there a lot more of it?"

I raised my hand and pointed to the clothes on the shelf next to me.

There hung seven or eight identical dresses. Judging from the cotton material on the side, I could see that they were of the same style.

Seeing how clumsy the clerk's promotion skills were, I instantly thought less highly of this set.

Glanced at the direction where I was pointing at, the clerk wasn't surprised at all. She said, "The dresses there aren't the same as this one."

"What's the difference between them?"

I walked over, picked up the clothes on the shelf, and lifted them.

At first glance, there was no difference between these dresses and the one on the model. But, it seemed that there were some differences between them.

As I compared them. Shelton said first, "The pearl on them are different."

Hearing Shelton's words, the clerk immediately praised him, "Sir, you are amazing. You sensed the difference between them at a glance. The pearl on the dress in my hands is a superior pearl. However, the ones on other dresses are all ordinary freshwater beads. Don't look down on a pearl. If it's put on this silk dress, it will make great difference!"

The clerk praised Shelton non-stop.

I compared the two dresses with each other.

And I found that what the clerk had said was true.

It probably was because of the cotton material differences that the so-called limitededition pearl in the clerk's hands seemed to look luxurious.

And the pearl on the dress in my hands was quite common instead.

Despite I liked this dress, thinking that Shelton would pay the bill for me, I held up the dress in my hands and said, "I'll try this one instead."

The clerk was stunned and wanted to say something, only to hold herself back.

After I put the dress on and came out, I looked at myself in the mirror.

Well, the pearl of this dress looked quite eyecatching.

If I hadn't seen the supreme Pearl, I probably would have thought that this dress wasn't bad. However, I had seen it, thinking that whether it was in terms of color or smoothness, the pearl on the dress in my hands had been greatly overshadowed.

However, to stop Shelton from spending big, I pretended to like the dress very much, saying to the clerk, "I will take this set."

Shelton stood next to me without saying anything.

After I changed my clothes and came out, I was going to hand the dress to the clerk and ask her to pack it up, only to hear the clerk said, "I am done packing it up. Your boyfriend has paid the bill."

As she spoke, she handed the packed dress over to me.

I looked down.

The one lying inside was the dress of the limited edition.

"No need. I will buy an ordinary one." I wanted to refuse.

After all, I knew that pearl could make a piece of clothing more valuable by several folds.

"Don't refuse me. It's just a set of clothes." Shelton repeated what he had once said to me.

"But..."

"It's not expensive. Don't worry. I'm not as poor as you think." Shelton said as he pushed the dress to me, "Put it on. I'll take you to my house directly later."

Knowing that I couldn't refuse Shelton, I could only say in a low voice, "Thank you."

I went back to the dressing room and obediently put the dress on.

With a different pearl on it, the dress looked higher-end.

Wearing the dress, I followed Shelton out. In the elevator, I met Jeremy.

Jeremy saw me first. Only after that die he see Shelton. He was stunned for a moment, saying in the end, "Hello, Mr. Shelton. Hello, Miss Nolan."

Confirming that I had never seen Jeremy after I came back to City Y, I asked, "Are you..."