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 might retaliate.

pulling her behind

her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo pulled

stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat as her lips

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He reluctantly addressed

and he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly tailored dark gray suit, which gave

older than Nathan, yet his reserved and mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful vigor. He exuded the power of

slight resemblance between him and

wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it to Audrey’s bleeding

he turned and

opened the

Ryan pressed on Audrey’s wound and helped her into the car, Nathan took a few

indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent

and Nathan were taken to the emergency room and treated

wounds, she noticed her soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She advised,

it interfere with treating

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

cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the

stood in the emergency treatment room with his hands in his pockets, frowning at Audrey. Deep and authoritative, his voice left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey remained silent momentarily before slowly unzipping her jacket and removing her

the curtain closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

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

curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze

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carried her to the car, Nathan knew he

the public face of the family’s power. Many of the

called out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

turned around slowly. The hospital’s bright lights

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

His brow furrowed.

for her to hit