Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 3

Audrey regained her composure and looked at Nathan steadily. Her eyes grew as cold as her heart.

“The thing I regret most is getting you out of that small town the Yeomans family is from! The seed of a rapist… Truly the filthiest and most despicable in the world! No wonder the Lambert family wants nothing to do with you,” Nathan spat.

Before he could finish his sentence, he was caught off guard by a fierce blow to his head. He staggered back into a tree trunk.

Audrey, half her face covered in blood, stood where Nathan had been a second before. Her hand trembled as she clutched a broken half of a brick.

Nathan was dazed. He stared at Audrey in disbelief. His vision in his right eye was a blur of red as

blood seeped into it.

Hugo and Amelia stood in the shallow pool, stunned. They couldn’t believe that Audrey had struck

Nathan.

With a pale face, Audrey forced herself to appear calm. She tossed the broken brick into the pool, then said hoarsely, “Nathan, we’re even now.”

Nathan’s mind flooded with blurry images.

Behind the sunset–tinged school building, a girl in a clean uniform pinned the blushing younger version of him against the wall. She smiled at him.

“Nathan, we’re even now!”

His heart raced, his breath quickened, and his nose filled with the pleasant scent of gardenias emanating from the girl.

Climbing roses bloomed on the walls, but they paled in comparison to her alluring, smiling face.

Nathan clutched his chest and shook his head to clear the vision. The comforting image vanished

without a trace.

“Are you alright, Nathan?” Amelia asked.

Nathan came back to reality. He touched his head, and his hand came away bloody. He cursed and looked up at Audrey.

rushed to him, fearing he

pulling her behind him protectively.

drained from her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as

shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat as her lips trembled silently.

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also half–covered in blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed the man, “Mr.

a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly tailored dark gray

was only four years older than Nathan, yet his reserved and mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s

him

lips, swiftly undid his tie and wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it to Audrey’s bleeding forehead.

held Audrey, he turned and sald coldly, “Let’s go to the

hurriedly opened

wound and helped her into the car, Nathan took a few steps after them. He

into the car. His indifferent gaze behind his

emergency room and treated separately for their injuries.

noticed her soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She advised, “You should take

paused, then asked politely, “Will it interfere with treating the

affect the treatment, but aren’t you uncomfortable in wet clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling the

She mumbled through the fabric,

room

draw the curtain closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

sight of the shocking bruises on Audrey’s

curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze to Ryan’s tall and straight silhouette. He

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and the look in his eyes when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain the day’s events

was now the public face of the family’s power. Many of the Franklin family’s

softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

slowly. The hospital’s bright lights cast sharp lines

feet one inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of

His brow furrowed.

for her to hit the decorations.”