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

broad picture fairly. August was actually fighting alone, and

to back her up in such a

August looked up at 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

her hand back after giving him the water, August

his hand to get hold of her wrist and dragged her

him stagger before he held her into his arms

frowned and tried to push him away, yet his grip of her waist

so tight that she couldn't

hoarse and low voice. Lucia just felt her heartbeat quicken. She even began

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

fell down any

abruptly turned round with her in his arms, and thus pressed her against

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 this drunken

her witli his rarely bleary eyes. His hair was no lonter as

had been loosened and two buttons at the top, undone, just to reveal

quite appealing to her somehow. August 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. She

in his heart when he was sober. But now, he only ignored lier

dine

and her mind really a

of liis. As she was thinking hard, something occurred to her

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

just got Lucia to stiffen up. She was not

hersell, especially when the man

calmed down and demanded seriously, "Let go

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