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

rushed to Audrey, pulling her behind him

Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo pulled her to

strong, well–defined hands gripped her shoulders, stabilizing her to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of

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He reluctantly addressed

were sharp, and he had a stern expression. He

his reserved and mature presence was strikingly different from Nathan’s youthful

between him and

undid his tie and wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it

Audrey, he turned and

opened the car door.

wound and helped her into the car, Nathan took a few steps after

stepped into the car. His indifferent gaze behind

Nathan were taken to the emergency room and treated separately for

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

paused, then asked politely, “Will it interfere

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

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

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

draw the curtain closed, Amelia and a bandaged Nathan, emerged

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caught sight of the 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 and straight silhouette. He felt an inexplicable dread.

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with Audrey and the look in his eyes when he carried her to the car, Nathan knew he had

the public face of the family’s

softly, “Mr. Lambert…”

turned around slowly. The hospital’s bright lights

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

His brow furrowed.

“I didn’t mean for her to