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,

rushed to Audrey, pulling her behind him

from her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo

prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of

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in blood, hesitated. He reluctantly

were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly

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

between him and

head wound with pursed lips, swiftly undid his tie and wrapped

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

opened the car door.

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

stepped into the car. His indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent chills

the emergency room and

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

“Will it interfere with

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

scarf to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the fabric, If it doesn’t affect the treatment,

his pockets, frowning at Audrey. Deep and authoritative, his voice left no room

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

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

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

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her to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain

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 Lamberts.

out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

lights cast

unfathomable depth of someone in a position of power. He was intimidating even

His brow furrowed.

for her