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.

rushed to him, fearing

to Audrey, pulling her behind

her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo

She turned around. Words of

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in blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed

Lambert, 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

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

him and Audrey was obvious.

examining Audrey’s head wound with pursed lips, swiftly undid his tie and wrapped

he held Audrey, he turned and sald coldly,

assistant hurriedly opened the car

helped her into the car, Nathan took a few steps after them. He

up as he stepped into the car. His indifferent

the emergency room and treated separately

soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She advised, “You should take off your coat and

paused, then asked politely, “Will it interfere with treating the wound?”

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

her scarf to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the fabric, If it doesn’t affect the treatment, I’m

room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your

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

curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze to Ryan’s tall

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and the look in his eyes when he carried her

now the public face of the family’s power. Many of the

called out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

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

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

His brow furrowed.

for her to hit