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 

been quite disadvantageous to August, when Bishop

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

willing to back her up in

not blaming me?" "Not at all." Lucia shook her head. After a short silence, it suddenly occurred

Noticing Lucia was taking her hand back after giving him the water,

out his hand to get hold of her wrist and dragged her toward

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

himself steady. Lucia was astounded. She frowned and tried to push him away, yet his grip of

that she couldn't move at all.

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

from his body. She had

fell down any minute.

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

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 man

no lonter as orderly as usual, with some locks falling

and two buttons at the top, undone, just to

no longer the chilly August, and seemed quite appealing to her somehow. August suddenly bent down slowly and whispered to her, "I'll try my best to make

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 and

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

you still dine with

almost paralyzed, and her mind really a mess now. Why was he doing this?

of liis. As she was thinking

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

as Jeanne. That idea just got Lucia to

to hersell, especially when the man was not

down and demanded seriously, "Let go of me."

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