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, fearing he

pulling her

attack, Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo pulled her to

turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat

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blood, hesitated. He

Lambert, was in his early thirties. His features were sharp, and he 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 man.

him and Audrey

examining Audrey’s head wound with pursed lips, swiftly undid his tie and wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it to Audrey’s

swept over Nathan. As he held Audrey, he turned and

assistant hurriedly opened the

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

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

Nathan were taken to the emergency

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

politely, “Will it

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

at her scarf to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through the fabric, If

left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey remained silent

nurse moved to draw the curtain closed, Amelia and a

1. it.

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

curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned

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carried her to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain the day’s events

the public face of the family’s power. Many of the Franklin family’s projects

called out softly, “Mr.

hospital’s bright lights cast sharp lines on his handsome face.

inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position of power. He was intimidating

His brow furrowed.

explained, “I didn’t mean for her to hit the