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,

to Audrey, pulling her behind him

drained from her attack, Audrey stumbled backward as Hugo pulled her to

to prevent another fall. She turned around. Words of thanks caught in her throat as

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

He wore gold–rimmed glasses and a black cont over a neatly tailored dark gray suit, which gave him an

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

slight resemblance between him

wrapped it around his palm. Then he pressed it to Audrey’s bleeding forehead.

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

assistant hurriedly opened the car

into the car, Nathan took a

glanced up as he stepped into the car. His indifferent gaze behind his

to the emergency room and treated

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

paused, then asked politely, “Will it interfere

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

cover her mouth and nose. She mumbled through

room for argument. He ordered,

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

1. it.

on Audrey’s jaw and neck. He wondered if

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

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

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

called out softly, “Mr.

around slowly. The hospital’s bright lights cast sharp

the unfathomable depth

His brow furrowed.

mean for