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 protectively.

from her attack, Audrey stumbled backward

strong, well–defined hands gripped her shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat

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in blood, hesitated. He reluctantly

had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed

his reserved and mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful vigor. He exuded the power of a grown

resemblance between him and

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

he held Audrey, he turned and sald coldly, “Let’s go to the hospital!”

opened the car door.

helped her into the car, Nathan took a few steps

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

emergency room and treated separately for

the nurse prepared to clean Audrey’s wounds, she noticed her soaked white scarf and

“Will it

clothes?” the nurse

nose. She mumbled through the fabric, If it doesn’t affect

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

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

1. it.

caught sight of the shocking bruises on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered if his push caused such severe injuries.

visibly shaken, turned his

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when he carried her to the car,

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

out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

hospital’s bright lights cast sharp lines on his handsome

imposing six feet one inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone

His brow furrowed.

“I didn’t mean for