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

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

water. The icy water had soaked through Audrey’s down jacket. He peeled off her

to a source of warmth and enveloped in a masculine scent, her feverish

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body met the soft bed, she struggled to open her eyes. Her vision was

the movement of his throat, and the way his wet shirt clung to his body. Everything sent a jolt

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

braced on the bed. His muscles tensed, freezing in place.

desire. The

hooked her freezing, pale fingers around his neck to deepen the kiss, she tried to pry open his lips awkwardly. A fierce fire burned within

the bed. He tensed in her grip. His entire body was rigid and motionless.

fierce battle between ice and fire, Audrey clung to the man’s scorching body like at lifeline.

gently pressed

around his arm. Ryan’s hand tensed. A jolt of electricity

his arm, pressing her

“Audrey!” he exclaimed.

eyes fluttered open. Her

window illuminated his sharp features, casting a colorful glow on his prominent nose and

nasal tone, “Ryan… Mr. Lambert, I feel

you to

and bundled her up in the comforter. However, his

bit her lower lip in agony. Her breathing became erratic. Reaching for Ryan’s hand, she pleaded

deepening like an abyss. “Audrey, I’m not Nathan. I can’t

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

drug’s potency intensified over time. She couldn’t

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lost

the man before her eyes!