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.

straight for the bathroom. He found Audrey in

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

her from the bone–chilling water. The icy water had soaked through Audrey’s down jacket. He peeled off her heavy, waterlogged jacket then

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

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shreds of rationality

struggled

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

acting on pure instinct, grabbed his tie

on the bed. His muscles tensed, freezing in

was unskilled and driven by desire. The

neck to deepen the kiss, she tried to pry open his lips awkwardly. A fierce fire burned within

He tensed in

battle between ice and fire, Audrey clung to the man’s scorching body like at lifeline. Despite being controlled by a drug that made

held Audrey’s face as he gently pressed her into

his hand. Her icy hands wound around his arm. Ryan’s hand

withdrew his arm, pressing

“Audrey!” he exclaimed.

eyes fluttered open. Her

casting a colorful glow on his

nasal tone, “Ryan…

I’ll take you to the hospital,” he assured

her up in the comforter. However, his touch, scent, and voice only intensified her desires and

in agony. Her breathing became erratic. Reaching

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

part of her

said, the drug’s potency intensified over time. She

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completely lost

man before her