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.

Amelia rushed to him, fearing he

pulling

stumbled backward as Hugo pulled her to him.

fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat as her lips

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blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed the man,

a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly tailored

presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful vigor. He

him and Audrey was obvious.

his tie and wrapped it around

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

hurriedly opened the car

and helped her into the car, Nathan took a few steps

the car. His indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent chills down Nathan’s spine.

to the emergency room and treated separately

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

politely, “Will it interfere with treating the

uncomfortable in wet clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling the treatment cart closer. “You should take them off.”

to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled

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

to draw the curtain closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

bruises on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered

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

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Ryan’s relationship with Audrey and the look in his eyes when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain

Ryan 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

out softly,

bright lights cast sharp lines on

one inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of

His brow furrowed.

mean for her to hit the