Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 35

Audrey sobbed hysterically. Her throat was so sore that she could barely utter a word.

“Aunt Anne…”

Tears streamed down her face. She didn’t hold back any longer. She broke down and lost control. She hugged Anne and cried loudly, “You promised to make me chicken lasagna and egg salad!”

She didn’t want Nathan! She really didn’t want him! All she wanted was for Aunt Anne to be alright

Hugo stood outside the morgue. His eyes reddened as he listened to Audrey crying uncontrollably.

They had grown up together. He hardly ever saw her cry.

Even when she woke up in the hospital and found out that Nathan had lost his memory and fallen in love with someone else, she wiped away her tears and said she would bring his memory back. She had never broken down like this before.

Hugo thought Audrey was cold and unfeeling, just like others said. She always seemed calm, no matter what.

He waited outside the morgue for almost two hours. When the sounds of crying stopped, he walked to the door and gently pushed it open.

Inside, Audrey sat slumped next to the table where Anne lay. Her hair was messy and her eyes were

red and swollen.

leaned her face close to Anne’s cold and lifeless hand. She looked numb and

lost all feeling.

the morgue when he heard Amelia’s voice coming from the direction of

elevator.

you see Audrey. Aunt Anne was her foster mother. You shouldn’t

matter what…”

Nathan out of the elevator, even though his

his right arm hanging in

“My ar

if I hadn’t tried to save her. I had to push Anne! She was pulling at me.

Amelia stopped and glared at him. “Anne was hit

would have retorted sarcastically, sneering that he

drugging Audrey that night gnawing at him. Perhaps it was knowing that Audrey might have taken her own life if she hadn’t met him. He now understood why she clung to him so desperately for the last two years. It wasn’t as sordid

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argue with Amelia.

he saw her stern expression. He pinched her check. “I

“Stop it!”