Meeting The One For Me

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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,

to Audrey, pulling her behind him

drained from her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as

gripped her shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in

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also half–covered in blood, hesitated. He reluctantly addressed the man, “Mr.

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

mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful vigor. He exuded the power of

resemblance between him and Audrey

and wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it

Audrey, he turned and sald

hurriedly opened the

her into the car, Nathan took

he stepped into the car. His indifferent gaze behind his gold–rimmed glasses sent chills down Nathan’s spine.

were taken to the emergency

wounds, she noticed her soaked white scarf and coat stained with blood. She advised, “You

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

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

frowned, tugging at her scarf to cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through

left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your

the curtain closed,

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shocking bruises on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered if his push

before the light blue 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 to the car, Nathan knew he had to explain the day’s

an adopted son of the Lambert family in Mythravia, he was now the public face of the family’s

called out softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

turned around slowly. The 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 even

His brow furrowed.

for her to