Substitute Her to Love You (Charlotte and Patrick)

Chapter 239

Failing to stand stable, I staggered backward for a few steps and fell off the yacht at once.

My body fell speedily!

A second later, water splashed all around me!

I instantly panicked. And water seeped into my mouth all at once.

"I can't die here!"

Thinking of the child in my belly, I fluttered a few times, tried to calm myself down, and quickly held my breath to adjust the gravity of my body and make myself float up. Then I swam to the lifeboat on the side little by little.

The lifeboat was indeed as Roger had said.

It had been greatly deflated.

I managed to climb up the lifeboat and looked up at the yacht.

Staring at the yacht from this point of view, I found that at this time, it had been completely on fire.

But I didn't see Caroline at all!

"Caroline Archer!" I had a bad feeling in my heart.

Looking up at the yacht and seeing the fire

burning on the yacht non-stop, I couldn't see Caroline's figure at all.

I, who couldn't aboard the yacht either, seemed to realize what had happened.

For a moment, I felt quite painful, upset, and desperate!

Caroline didn't treat me well. She even tried to harm me many times. Even so, we were twins anyway.

Sometimes we shared the same feeling.

Taking the current situation as an example, all my feelings should be the miniature version of her feelings.

"What on earth happened on the yacht? She surely has been trapped in the cabin and can't come out."

Standing on the lifeboat, I looked up at the yacht which was being devoured by the fire little by little. In the end, the fire burned the rope with which the lifeboat was tied to the yacht.

The rope was burned off.

I could leave now.

But I, who was surrounded by the boundless sea, didn't know which direction I should go. If I went in the wrong direction, I probably would die as well.

"If so, I'd better stay not far from this yacht so that the ones in a passing ship probably will see me."

I rowed the lifeboat a little further away from the yacht.

I waited quietly there for someone to save me.

At this moment, I was even wondering whether Caroline would jump off the yacht above.

As time went by, I knew it was impossible.

It was unknown how long had passed. I could feel that the lifeboat where I stayed was sinking little by little and that it would be completely deflated soon.

However, apart from the seawater, there was nothing else around me.

Roger surely had long known that there would be a great fight between Caroline and me, who were trapped beasts on the yacht, and that neither of us would survive.

So he certainly didn't plan to find someone to save us sincerely.

In other words, he just said so to grant a glimmer of hope on us, who were originally in despair, and to make his performance more vivid.

As I lay there and looked up at the clouds floating in the sky...

"Dudu."

Sounds of a ship's alarm rang!

I sat up quickly and found that not far away, there was unexpectedly a yacht which was of the same model as that of a steam-assisted yacht!

A man stood on the deck. As soon as he saw me, he quickly ran in.

After a while, he came out again, stopped the yacht beside me, and put down a ladder. When I went up the yacht along the ladder, I took a look at the burning yacht.

The yacht had been sinking ever since just now. At this time, half of it had been sunken.

I thought that I would never see Caroline again.

I got on this yacht. As soon as I arrived at the deck, I saw Shelton sitting inside.

Seeing me, he was obviously stunned for a moment. Then he quickly stood up and looked at the gradually sinking yacht outside the window, asking, "Is this the yacht which you boarded?"

"Yes." I looked at him. Feeling a little confused, I asked, "Why did you come over?"

"Could it be that Roger had informed him of this?"

"Or is he related to Roger?"

Before Caroline revealed to me that the other one orchestrating the kidnapping incident was Kelsi Clark, in fact, I guessed that it would be Shelton.

Now that he appeared here again. I couldn't help but wonder whether it was too much of a coincidence?

Shelton frowned, "Not long after you left, I told my eldest brother that I was worried about you. So I left the island on a yacht. According to the sailors, a yacht was burning. Feeling worried about you, I intended to call the police to come here and then leave..."

Speaking of this, Shelton suddenly took me into his arms and murmured, "Fortunately, I am here. I indeed didn't expect that you would be on the yacht."

Shelton held me quite tightly. As I was being held in his arms, my arm even ached a little.

For a moment, I felt that I surely had misunderstood him.

He wouldn't have kidnapped me.

Shelton made me sit on the sofa, took a sliced coconut over, and inserted a straw into it. Handing it over to me, he said worriedly, "What happened? How come the yacht was on fire suddenly?"

"I was set up." Looking at Shelton, I thought about it for a moment and told him what had happened on the yacht.

After hearing my words, Shelton lowered his head and fell silent for a moment, asking, "I wonder whether you have any other plans about Patrick's matter?"

"Hmm?"

I didn't understand why he had suddenly brought up Patrick.

Shelton looked at me and said with a serious look, "No one knew Caroline was on that yacht. If someone finds out about what happened to the yacht, Patrick surely will think that you are the one who died there..."

"You..."

I looked at Shelton, feeling a little confused.

However, I seemed to understand what he was about to say.

"Do you want to completely get rid of Patrick and start a brand new life?"

Shelton asked.

His question confused me. I looked at him, wondering how to respond for a moment. However, his words aroused a strong resonance in my heart.

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"It is a good proposal. In this case, he will remember me for the rest of his life."

Seeing that I didn't speak, Shelton felt that he had said something wrong and quickly said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said such things. I just think that you deserve a better life and that you should be a better one rather than be trapped by Patrick and stop pursuing your own career and potential."

"I will think about what you said." I looked at Shelton, "I want to be a better me."

I remembered the dream I had in my childhood.

When I was little, Patrick was so perfect and superior in my eyes. At that time, I dreamt to become an excellent person. Even if I couldn't be on par with Patrick, at least, I could get closer to him.

"But what have I done in the past few years?"

"I don't seem to have made any progress. And I'm even regressing."

"I, who seem to have been under Patrick's protection for a long time, is far from being on par with Patrick."

"Even I hate myself for being like this."

When Shelton and I disembarked the yacht, Shelton paid the crewmen with a large sum of money and advising them not to mention to anyone about seeing me. Instead, they should say that they had passed by the yacht and reported the fire incident to the police without seeing anybody.

Later, to give me enough time to think about his proposal, Shelton didn't bring me back to City Y directly.

Instead, he took me to City S first.

I stayed there for three days. Over these days, I had nightmares over and over again.

Especially when I closed my eyes at night, I would see myself in the vast fire. That kind of fear and despair welled up in my heart.

I guessed that this was what Caroline had seen before she died. The reason why I dreamed about these things was that we were twins.

On the third day, I felt better.

Shelton went back to City Y to take care of his affairs. I checked the temples around City S and took a taxi to one of the temples.

"In any case, Caroline and I are sisters. Since she is dead, I will let go of what she did in the past. I hope she can be reborn in a good family in her next life."

When I finished paying tribute to the Buddha, I heard a lot of noise at the door.

"You are physically fit. Why do you beg for food here? Should a person like you cheat kind-hearted devotees?"

I heard a man scolding loudly there.

The voice seemed to sound a little familiar to me.