Meeting The One For Me

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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 might

Audrey, pulling

and drained from her attack, Audrey stumbled

fall. She turned around. Words

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

Lambert, was in his early thirties. His features were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black

only four years older than Nathan, yet his reserved and mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful vigor. He exuded

between him and Audrey was obvious.

pursed lips, swiftly undid his tie and wrapped it around his palm. Then he

Audrey, he turned and

opened the

her into the car, Nathan took

car. His indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent chills down

and Nathan were taken to the emergency room and treated separately

scarf and coat stained with

“Will it interfere

clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling the treatment cart closer. “You should take

and nose. She mumbled through

pockets, frowning at Audrey. Deep and authoritative, his voice left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey

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

1. it.

a fleeting second, Nathan caught sight of the shocking bruises on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered

briefly before the light blue curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze to Ryan’s tall and straight silhouette.

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when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain the day’s events

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

out softly,

around slowly. The hospital’s bright lights cast sharp

exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of power. He was

His brow furrowed.

mean for her