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 might

rushed to Audrey, pulling her behind him protectively.

Audrey stumbled backward as

turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat

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in blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed

was in his early thirties. His features were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly tailored dark gray suit, which

mature presence was strikingly different from

slight resemblance between him

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

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

hurriedly opened

helped her into the car, Nathan took a

glanced up as he stepped into the car. His indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent

were taken to the emergency room and treated separately for their

nurse 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

politely, “Will it interfere with

treatment, but aren’t you uncomfortable in wet clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling the treatment cart closer. “You should take them

scarf to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the

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

closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

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

view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze to Ryan’s tall and straight silhouette. He felt

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when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew

the public face of

out softly, “Mr.

around slowly. The hospital’s bright lights cast sharp lines on his handsome

the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of

His brow furrowed.

explained, “I didn’t mean for her to