Chapter303 She was only a Substitute? 

 

Standing beside the flower beds in the nigh breeze, August was in front of his car. Bein, a bit tipsy, he tried to 

steady himself by leaning against the car languorously while squinting at the direction of the stairs. He 

actually couldn't account for his behavior now. 

He had been drinking with Joshua in Perfect Fortune just how to dissipate the r:loominess in his heart. Yet 

Lucia's face kept floating into his mind, making: liim even more upset. lletlius kept on drinking, and was a bit 

drunken when he eventually left Perfect Fortune, Burton was to send him home, yet he just gave him the 

address of Lucia without much thinking, probably because he was already unable to think. 

The sound activated lights on the ground floor was lit before long, and Lucia appeared some seconds later. 

Wearing a long ivory overcoat which got her white and spidery legs exposed outside, she ran towards him like 

a butterfly, her hair floating in the air. Feeling a crush in his heart, August just couldn't take his eyes off her. 

Lucia went up to the car, and passed him the bottle of icy water after taking a gasp. "Now you can let me know 

the matter." Looking down at the bottle, August got his eyes fixed on her thin wrist. "I'm sorry I wasn't helping today." he muttered after a moment's silence. He'd promised her in his office that he would keep her safe, yet in the end 

he wasn't the one who managed to help her out. Lucia paused for some seconds before she finally grasped what he meant. "It's OK. It's gone now." said she 

She knew the situation had been quite disadvantageous to August, when

the broad picture fairly. August was actually fighting alone, and she was already

back

her, frowning, "So you are not blaming me?" "Not at all." Lucia shook her head. After a short silence, it suddenly occurred to August that Jamie had mentioned the girlfriend stuff to

even sulkier. Noticing Lucia was taking her hand back after

to get hold of her wrist and dragged her toward

tipsy, that action made him stagger before he

astounded. She frowned and tried to push

so tight that she couldn't move at

voice. Lucia just felt her heartbeat quicken. She even began to

dizzy, probably because of the smell of alcohol from his body.

fell down any

and thus pressed her against the

both sides. Lucia looked up at him in

no lonter as orderly as

loosened and two buttons at the top,

longer the chilly August, and seemed quite appealing to her somehow. August suddenly bent down slowly and whispered to her, "I'll

so low and tantalizing that her face began burning as her heartbeat went even more rapid. Seeing she was still in silence, August raised her chin up with his hand, "Did you hear me?" Feeling an ineffable urge, Lucia had lost the strength to push him away. She only bit her lip

But now, he only ignored lier remind, and approached her ear

his breath, "Could you still dine

really a mess now. Why was he doing this?

As she was thinking

dinned with lim in the canteen, but it was Jeanne who often ate with him.

was mistaking her as Jeanne. That idea just got Lucia to stiffen up. She was not to be the

hersell, especially when

seriously, "Let

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