Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 2
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“Audrey!” Hugo called.
He caught up with her at the entrance of the bar. He wanted to grab her arm but
hesitated just before touching her down jacket. His long leg stepped forward to
block her descent down the steps.
“Did you move out of the apartment?”
“Yes,” Audrey replied. Her eyes were downcast as half her face was hidden in the
fluffy scarf.
Now that she had decided to let Nathan go, she naturally wouldn't stay in an
apartment filled with
their memories.
“Where have you been staying these past few days?” he asked her.
Hugo didn’t give Audrey a chance to lie.
He continued, “I went to Sheysea University yesterday to look for you. Your
roommate said your family came to the dorm and made it impossible for you to
stay there. You haven't been around us. either. Have you been staying with the
Lambert family?
Audrey felt a sting in her heart at the mention of the Lambert family’s. She looked
up. Her clear eyes met Hugo's steadily.
“Thank you for your concern and for speaking up for me earlier. But... I know my
place. We never belonged together. We only became friends because of Nathan.
Now that I've decided not to cling to Nathan, I shouldn't bother his friends either.”
Hugo, usually so genteel, felt a sting from Audrey's sudden coldness. He
grabbed her arm to stop her from moving away. His wool coat fell from his hands
in the process.
Ignoring the fallen coat, he gripped Audrey's arm tightly. “Do you have to speak
like that?”
“If I hadn't woken up, it wouldn't have come to this,” Audrey said, looking at
Hugo's astonished.
expression.
Her voice was calm yet hollow. She continued, “I'm sorry. It's my fault for waking
up from the coma and disrupting your lives. I'll leave Sheysea as soon as I can.
That's what you all want, right?”
Nathan's family took her in when she was ten. She had grown up with Hugo and
the others. Once, Audrey had truly believed they were also her friends and
childhood companions.
Hugo opened his mouth, but he struggled to speak.
His eyes reddened, and his voice was hoarse as he sputtered, “You mean it like
that!”
“Hugo! Audrey...”
you heard that? No! We didn’t
Hearing Amelia's voice, Audrey pulled her arm free from Hugo. She picked up his
coat and handed it
Chanter 2
to him as he turned to greet Amelia,
Amelia wore a mask. Her long, thick, curly hair fell to her waist.
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She stepped out of a car. Her thin, beige coat draped over her arm. Even with
her face obscured, she radiated beauty.
It was the first ime Amelia had seen Audrey since the drugging incident.
She approached Audrey calmly and said, “I know that, with your character, you
couldn't have been behind the drugging. Have you considered reporting it to the
police?”
Audrey couldn't help but find it amusing. Nathan and her former friends didn’t
believe her, but Amelia did. Regardless of the sincerity of Amella’s words, she
was the first to say she believed Audrey.
“Thank you. I've reported it already,” Audrey thanked her and added with pursed
lips, “Ms. Doyle, I wish you and Nathan everlasting happiness,”
Amelia looked startled. She instinctively tightened her grip on the gift bag.
“Has Nathan remembered everything?”
Audrey shook her head in response, then added, “I'm the one giving up.
“Amelia!” Nathan's voice, filled with excitement and hurried footsteps, came from
above as he quickly descended the stairs towards them.
He swiftly pulled Amelia away from Audrey, his heart pounding. He feared Audrey
might have said something she shouldn't have.
After the drugging incident, Amelia cried and demanded Nathan take
responsibility for Audrey.
Nathan, not wanting to lose his beloved, swore nothing had happened between
him and Audrey. But the truth was, he couldn't remember if anything had
happened between them.
He avoided encounters between the two women these days, fearing Audrey
would tell Amelia about that night.
Seeing Amelia without her coat, he frowned and scolded her softly. He slipped
the thin coat onto her shoulders and pulled her into his arms, eager to go inside.
“Let's go. We should head back in!”
“I'm not going! I have an event in Valerianth City tomorrow, so I'm heading to the
airport now. I won't be back until tomorrow night.”
Amelia pulled away from Nathan, looking up at him with a smile. She added, “I
came to give you your birthday present and to wish you a happy birthday! Have
fun tonight!”
Nathan didn’t accept the gift Amelia was holding out to him. Instead, he held onto
her wrist, his brow furrowed. His usual carefree demeanor was gone, replaced by
an almost puppy-like neediness.
Audrey knew who he meant by “no one else*.
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She tugged her scarf over her face and headed down the steps. She buried her
hands in the pockets of
her down coat.
Amelia glanced at Audrey's retreating figure and softly said, “I know what you
planned for today. Everyone told me! I'm sorry, Nathan, but I can’t accept it yet.
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with Audrey.”
Amelia's friends had hinted that Nathan planned to propose to her today.
“Did Audrey fill your head with nonsense?” Nathan's anger surged, a vein
throbbing in his forehead.
Without waiting for Amelia's explanation, he quickly caught up with Audrey. With
a look of disgust and hatred, he pushed her forcefully.
“What lies did you tell Amelia this time, Audrey? How can you be so vile and
despicable!”
“Audrey!” Hugo exclaimed in shock.
Nathan's push was merciless. Audrey’s slender and frail frame staggered and fell
into the ornamental pond at the entrance of the bar.
The cold winter water engulfed her instantly—a sharp pain shot through her
forehead.
“Audrey:” Amelia and Hugo exclaimed as they rushed to help her out of the
water.
“Nathan, what are you doing?” Amelia shouted, holding Audrey tightly.
Audrey, still in the cold water, was dizzy and disoriented. Blood dripped from her
eyelashes.
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“Nathan, have you your mind!” Hugo barked as he tried to lift Audrey out of the
water. “I'm taking her to the hospital!”
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the pond.
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While Nathan hadn't expected his push would result in Audrey being covered in
blood, he looked at her with even more disgust.
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