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.

him, fearing he

to Audrey, pulling her behind him

stumbled

gripped her shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned

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half–covered in blood, hesitated. He

was in his early thirties. His features were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly tailored dark gray suit, which gave him an imposing

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

resemblance between him and Audrey was obvious.

swiftly undid his tie and wrapped it around his palm.

swept over Nathan. As he held Audrey, he turned and sald coldly, “Let’s

opened the car

Audrey’s wound and helped her into the car, Nathan took a

glanced up as he stepped into the car. His indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent chills down Nathan’s spine.

emergency room and treated separately

scarf and

politely, “Will it interfere with treating the

clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling

tugging at her scarf to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the fabric, If it

his voice left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and

moved to draw the curtain closed, Amelia and

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of the shocking bruises on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered if his

the light blue curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his

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in his eyes when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew he

now the public face of the family’s power. Many of the Franklin family’s projects relled on

softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

around slowly. The hospital’s bright lights cast

inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of power.

His brow furrowed.

explained, “I didn’t mean for