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.

to him, fearing

to Audrey, pulling her behind

stumbled backward as Hugo

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

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He reluctantly addressed the man, “Mr. Lambert,”

had a stern expression. He wore gold–rimmed glasses

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

resemblance between him and Audrey

and wrapped it around

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

hurriedly opened the

Ryan pressed on Audrey’s wound and helped her into the car, Nathan took a few steps after them. He

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

taken to the emergency room

nurse prepared to clean Audrey’s wounds, she noticed her soaked white scarf and coat stained

“Will it interfere

in wet clothes?” the nurse replied, pulling the treatment cart closer. “You should

and nose. She mumbled through

in the emergency treatment room with his hands in his pockets, frowning at Audrey. Deep and authoritative, his voice left no room for argument. He ordered, “Take off your scarf and coat.” Audrey remained silent

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

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the shocking bruises on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He

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

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Ryan’s relationship with Audrey and the look in his eyes when he carried her to

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

softly, “Mr.

hospital’s bright lights cast

six feet one inch, every movement exuded the unfathomable depth of someone in a position

His brow furrowed.

didn’t mean for