Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 14

“I know the way to the hotel rooms,” Audrey slurred, struggling to free herself from Charles’s grip.

“Ms. Yeomans, don’t worry about it!”

Charles almost shoved Audrey out of the private room and towards the elevator. His grip was firm.

As the drug started to take effect, Audrey’s head grew heavier and her legs weaker. She fought against Charles’s hold but couldn’t escape his strong

“Let me go!” she demanded.

Near the elevator, people cast side glances at Audrey and Charles.

I’ll take you

Charles tightened his grip on Audrey, who was now limp in his arms. He pretended to be affectionate with her. “You said you could handle your liquor, but look at you. Stop being dramatic

back to your room to rest.”

Charles flashed the onlookers an apologetic smile, then freed his grip on Audrey to press the elevator

button.

He whispered in Audrey’s car, “Nathan’s final wish for his coming–of–age celebration was to have someone escort you back. Are you thinking of going back on your word?”

Audrey’s vision was blurring, but she clearly saw Charles press the button to go up, not down.

Hugo hadn’t shown up yet….

Nathan and Charles had drugged her, so there was no guarantee they hadn’t done the same to Hugo. She suspected that Hugo, similarly drugged, was probably in a room upstairs.

She could fulfill Nathan’s final wish. But why did it have to be with Hugo?

“Alright, enough now. You’re drunk. Let’s go back to your room so you can rest,” Charles said as he pulled Audrey into the elevator. He pressed the button for the 57th floor.

She clutched the key card to the hotel room in her pocket, barely able to stand. The room she had booked was also on the 57th floor.

“You still owe me one last wish. Let someone take you home,” Nathan’s words echoed in her mind. She tightened her grip on the key card.

from within. This was the last wish she

in her world–weariness and despair, Audrey saw Ryan’s tall figure walk

“Ryan!”

spirits lifted. She could die with dignity but didn’t want to become a

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struggled to

come to the Jacinda Hotel and drugged mel You’re taking me to the 57th floor. Is Hugo in a room up there?

room?”

a disturbingly eager sniff of her scented hair. His eyes glinting with greedy, unsettling hunger.

High School, I’ve always wanted a taste of you. Don’t

Her back hit the elevator wall. She slid to the

shouted, “Get away from

Intense. She curled up, biting her lip and letting out a muffled

confident she could protect herself before the ambulance arrived, or even escape. After the incident,

resolved.

situation was entirely different with Charles. He

As her room was on the same floor,

Audrey into his arms,

making you feel good be a crime? Don’t worry… I’ll record everything so you can see for yourself just how much

sweat–dampened hair from her forehead. His tone dripped with vulgarity as he sneered, “You’ll witness your own shame as

silence. She fumbled with her phone in her pocket and dialed Ryan. She tried to recall the route to room 5716,

Charles away and

elevator casually with his hands in

watched Audrey flee desperately, like a cat eyeing a mouse it

Audrey Yeomans, the more desperately you’ll be

I’m in no rush,” Charles said.

your

he leisurely trailed

legs felt alien and started to grow numb. Her vision was getting

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clenched her room key tightly. She

you run anymore?” Charles mocked, “Do

Room 5716!