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 

disadvantageous to August,

August was actually

when he was willing to back her up in such a circumstance.

me?" "Not at all." Lucia shook her

made him even sulkier. Noticing Lucia was taking her

hold of her wrist and dragged

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

tried to push him

tight that she

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

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

fell

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

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

His hair was no lonter as orderly as usual, with some locks falling

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

somehow. August suddenly bent down slowly and whispered to her, "I'll try my best to make you

ineffable urge, Lucia had

now, he only ignored lier remind, and

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

and her mind really a

words of liis. As she was thinking

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

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

especially when the man

calmed down and demanded seriously, "Let go of

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