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 he

rushed to Audrey, pulling

her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as

hands gripped her shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words

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blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed the

Lambert, was in his early thirties. His features were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He

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

him and Audrey was obvious.

wound with pursed lips, swiftly undid his tie and wrapped it around his palm. Then he

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

hurriedly opened

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

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

taken to the emergency room and treated separately for their

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

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

clothes?” the

She mumbled through the fabric,

at Audrey. Deep and authoritative, his voice left no room

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

1. it.

second, Nathan caught sight of the shocking bruises on Audrey’s

briefly before the light blue curtain obscured their view. Nathan, visibly shaken, turned his gaze to Ryan’s tall and straight silhouette. He felt an

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look in his eyes when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew he

he was now the public face of the family’s power. Many of the Franklin family’s projects relled on

out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

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

the unfathomable depth of someone in a

His brow furrowed.

didn’t mean for her to hit the