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 to

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

to back her up in such a circumstance.

"Not at all." Lucia shook her head. After a short silence,

Noticing Lucia was taking her hand

out his hand to get hold of her wrist and dragged

action made him stagger before he held her into his arms out of

frowned and tried to push him away,

she couldn't

hoarse and low voice. Lucia just felt her heartbeat quicken.

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

fell down

her in his arms, and thus pressed her against the

up at him in surprise. "What..."

witli his rarely bleary eyes. His hair was no lonter as orderly as usual, with

over his forehead. His tie had been loosened and two buttons at

he was no longer the chilly August, and seemed quite appealing to her somehow. August suddenly bent down slowly and whispered to her,

August raised her chin up with his hand, "Did you hear me?" Feeling an ineffable urge, Lucia had lost the strength to

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

you still dine with me

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

liis. As she was thinking hard, something occurred to

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

her as Jeanne. That idea just got Lucia to stiffen up. She was

to hersell, especially when the man was not sober

calmed down and demanded seriously, "Let

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