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.

to him, fearing he

Audrey, pulling her behind him protectively.

attack, Audrey stumbled backward

shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words

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blood, hesitated. He reluctantly

he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black

and mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful vigor.

slight resemblance between him

and wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it to

Audrey, he turned and sald

opened the car

car, Nathan took a few steps after them. He

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

Nathan were taken to the emergency

noticed her soaked white scarf and

asked politely, “Will it

aren’t you uncomfortable in wet clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling the treatment cart closer. “You should

her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the fabric, If it

left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey remained silent momentarily

to draw the curtain closed, Amelia and a bandaged Nathan, emerged

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on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered

Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze to Ryan’s tall and straight silhouette. He felt

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eyes when he carried her

the Lambert family in Mythravia, he was now the public

called out softly,

slowly. The hospital’s bright lights cast sharp lines on

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

His brow furrowed.

mean for her to hit the