Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 15

Overwhelmed by the drug’s effects, Audrey’s phone slipped from her grasp.

She pinched her leg painfully, trying to force clarity back into her foggy mind.

However, the agonizing pain was no match for the burning desire that engulfed her.: She gritted her

teeth in torment.

Nathan’s words echoed in her drug–clouded brain, “You still owe me last wish. Let someone take

you home.”

Drenched in sweat, she wrapped her arms around herself. Tears streamed down her cheeks. It was a mix of unbearable physical agony and emotional torment.

Heat surged within her like lava boiling in her veins. Cold water could help. Before meeting Nathan, she had requested several buckets of ice and filled the bathtub with cold water.

Like last time, she had to endure it until it passed. Forcing herself against the wall, Audrey stumbled into the bathtub filled with ice.

Outside the door, Ryan heard the faint sound of water over the phone and nearly crushed it in his grip. He ended the call then instructed his assistant, “Get the hotel manager to open the door. Bring

the car to the hotel entrance.”

The assistant nodded and stepped aside to make a call.

Soon, the manager arrived and swiped the key card to unlock the door.

Ryan cast a backward glance at Charles, who appeared pale and unsettled. Ryan’s eyes, cold and daunting behind his gold–framed glasses, conveyed an unmistakable sense of warning.

“Hand him over to the police,” Ryan ordered coldly.

“Mr. Lambert! I’m Nathan’s brother–in–law! It wasn’t my fault. I was just following orders! Nathan is in Room 3020, Cloudsea Pavilion. We were together! You can ask him…

“Take him to Nathan. Tell him I want an explanation for this,” Ryan snapped impatiently.

He found Audrey in her down jacket, soaked in

the edge of the bathtub. The marble floor was flooded with water and ice. Her pale, trembling fingers gripped

water had soaked through Audrey’s down jacket. He peeled off her heavy, waterlogged jacket then

had barely kept Audrey’s frantic urges at bay. But now, held close to a source of warmth and enveloped in a masculine scent, her

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of rationality

she struggled to

Ryan’s sharply defined jaw, the movement of his throat, and the way his wet shirt clung to his body.

a comforter over her. Audrey, acting on pure instinct, grabbed his

His muscles

by desire. The

her freezing, pale fingers around his neck to deepen the kiss, she tried to pry open

in her grip. His

man’s scorching body like at lifeline. Despite being controlled by a drug that made her yearn for a man, her tears

held Audrey’s face as he gently pressed her into

hands wound around his arm. Ryan’s hand tensed. A jolt of electricity numbed his right hand, spreading through his entire body.

eyes darkened as he withdrew his arm, pressing her back onto the bed

“Audrey!” he exclaimed.

Her

casting a colorful glow on his

spoke with a heavy nasal tone, “Ryan… Mr. Lambert, I feel so

to the hospital,” he

tie from Audrey’s hands and bundled her up in the comforter. However, his touch, scent, and voice only intensified her

lower lip in agony. Her breathing became erratic. Reaching for Ryan’s hand, she pleaded hoarsely, “Help me, please…”

paused, his dark pupils deepening like an abyss. “Audrey, I’m not Nathan. I can’t help you.”

was like a needle piercing the softest part of her heart. It unleashed the

over time. She

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completely lost

wanted the man