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 

the situation had been quite disadvantageous to August, when Bishop was

had to consider the broad picture fairly. August was actually fighting

willing to back her up in

her head. After a short silence, it suddenly occurred to

Noticing Lucia was taking her hand back after giving

to get hold of

him stagger before he held her into his arms out

Lucia was astounded. She frowned and tried to push him away,

so tight that she couldn't move

might be drunken." cameliis hoarse and low voice. Lucia just felt her heartbeat

smell of alcohol from his body. She had to liold him tighter,

man might fell down any minute.

turned round with her in his arms, and thus pressed her against the car. He now

sides. Lucia looked up at

hair was no lonter as

two buttons at the top, undone, just to reveal his bronze

suddenly bent down

was 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.

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

"Could you still dine with me in the company?"

felt herself almost paralyzed, and her mind really a mess now. Why was

those ambiguous words of liis. As she was thinking

had seldom dinned with lim in the canteen, but it was

August was mistaking her as Jeanne. That idea just got Lucia to

said to hersell, especially when the man was

and demanded seriously, "Let go of me."

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