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.

to Audrey, pulling her behind

drained from her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo pulled her to him.

her to prevent another fall. She turned around.

Chapter 3

He reluctantly addressed

His features were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly

years older than Nathan, yet his reserved and mature presence was strikingly different

between him and Audrey was

swiftly undid his tie and wrapped it around

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

opened the

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

car. His indifferent gaze behind

Nathan were taken to the emergency room and

her soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She

asked politely, “Will it interfere with treating

affect the treatment, but aren’t you uncomfortable in wet clothes?” the nurse replied,

mouth and nose. She mumbled through the

left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey remained silent momentarily before slowly unzipping her jacket and removing

closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

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

shaken, turned

Chapter 3

he carried her to the car,

in Mythravia, he was now the public

called out softly, “Mr.

bright lights cast sharp lines on his

unfathomable depth of someone in

His brow furrowed.

didn’t mean for her to hit