I had known early that Caroline wouldn't admit it.

She had worked so hard for so long just to make Patrick think highly of her. In that case, how could she let him change his perception of her and think badly of her so easily?

But I didn't care about this anymore. I looked at Patrick beside me and asked him, "Mr. Cowell, I wonder if you do mean what you said previously?"

I was just making a bet by asking him such a question.

It was not a bet on his feelings for me but a bet on his possessive desire for me.

Patrick looked at me with some...