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 August,

picture fairly. August

was willing to back her

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

taking her hand back after giving him

his hand to get hold of

being tipsy, that action made him stagger before he held her into

steady. Lucia was astounded. She frowned and tried to push him away,

tight that she couldn't move

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

alcohol from his

man might fell down any

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

her both sides. Lucia looked up at him in surprise. "What..." She broke ofl

hair was no lonter as

tie had been loosened and two buttons at the top, undone,

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

with his hand, "Did you hear me?" Feeling an ineffable urge, Lucia had lost the strength to push him

But now, he only ignored lier remind, and approached

dine with me in the company?"

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

of liis. As she was thinking hard, something

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

as Jeanne. That idea just got Lucia to stiffen

said to hersell, especially when the man

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

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