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.

him, fearing he

to Audrey, pulling her

Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo pulled her to

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

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He reluctantly addressed the man, “Mr.

He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont

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

him and Audrey

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

he held Audrey, he turned and sald coldly, “Let’s

assistant hurriedly opened the

wound and helped her into the car, Nathan took a

His indifferent

to the emergency room and treated separately for their injuries.

her soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She advised, “You

“Will it interfere with

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

to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through

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

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

1. it.

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

Nathan, visibly shaken,

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her to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain

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

called out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

hospital’s bright lights cast sharp lines on his handsome

at an imposing six feet one inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of

His brow furrowed.

explained, “I didn’t mean for