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,

pulling

attack, Audrey stumbled backward

gripped her shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in her

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blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed

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

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

him

his tie and wrapped

As he held Audrey, he turned and

assistant hurriedly opened the car door.

her into the car, Nathan took a few steps after them. He called

indifferent gaze behind his

were taken to the emergency room and treated separately

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

paused, then asked politely, “Will it interfere with treating

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

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

room for argument.

to draw the curtain closed, Amelia and a bandaged

1. it.

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

briefly before the light blue curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his

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he carried her

family in Mythravia, he was now the public face of the family’s power. Many of the Franklin family’s

called out softly, “Mr.

The hospital’s bright lights cast

the unfathomable depth of someone in a position

His brow furrowed.

didn’t mean for her to hit