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.

Amelia rushed to him, fearing

Audrey, pulling her

attack, Audrey stumbled backward as

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

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blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed the man,

early thirties. His features were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He

and mature presence was strikingly different from

between him and Audrey

undid his tie and wrapped it around his

held Audrey, he

opened

car, Nathan took a

indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent

were taken to the emergency room and treated separately for their injuries.

nurse prepared to clean Audrey’s wounds, she noticed her soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She advised, “You should take off

then asked politely, “Will it interfere with treating the wound?”

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

mumbled through the fabric, If

no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey remained silent momentarily before slowly unzipping her jacket and removing her scarf.

the curtain closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

caught sight of the shocking bruises on Audrey’s jaw and

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

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eyes when he carried her to the car,

Ryan was an adopted son of the Lambert family in Mythravia, he was now the public face of the family’s power. Many of the Franklin family’s projects relled on the

softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

slowly. The hospital’s bright lights

every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a

His brow furrowed.

mean for her to hit