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 

quite disadvantageous

fairly. August was actually fighting alone, and

willing to back

frowning, "So you are not blaming me?" "Not at all." Lucia shook her head. After a short silence, it

was taking her hand back after giving him

stretched out his hand to get hold of

he was being tipsy, that action made him stagger before he held her into his arms out of

steady. Lucia was astounded. She frowned and tried to

so tight that she couldn't move at all.

low voice. Lucia just felt her

a little dizzy, probably because of the smell of alcohol from his body. She had to liold him tighter,

might fell down any

August abruptly turned round with her in his arms, and thus

arms which were leaning anainst the car at her both sides. Lucia looked up at him in surprise. "What..." She broke ofl as she suddenly found

her witli his rarely bleary eyes. His hair was no

tie had been loosened and two buttons at the

August, and seemed quite appealing to her somehow. August suddenly bent down slowly and whispered to her, "I'll try my best to

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

sober. But now,

his breath, "Could you still dine with

really a mess now. Why was he doing this? She

As she was thinking hard, something

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

That idea just got

especially when the

calmed down and demanded seriously, "Let

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