Chapter303 She was Only a Substitute? Standing beside the flower beds in the nigh breeze, August was in front of his car.

Being 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 now to dissipate the gloominess in his heart.

Yet Lucia's face kept floating into his mind, making him even more upset.

He thus 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 blandly.

She knew the situation had been quite disadvantageous to August, when Bishop was challenging him and Eliot had to consider the broad picture fairly.

gratified when he

up at her, frowning, "So you are not blaming

"Not at all."

Lucia shook her head.

short silence, it suddenly occurred to August that Jamie had

was taking her hand back after giving him the water, August abruptly stretched out his hand to get hold of her wrist and dragged

he held

Lucia was astounded.

frowned and tried to push him away, yet his grip of her waist was so

"I might be drunken."

his hoarse and

felt

dizzy, probably because of

hold him tighter, as this drunken man might fell

his arms,

between his arms which were leaning against the car at her

up at

"What..."

as she suddenly found this drunken man

usual, with some locks falling down over his

loosened and two buttons at the top, undone, just to

he was no longer the chilly August, and seemed quite appealing to her

her, "I'll try my

was so low and tantalizing that her face

her chin

urge, Lucia had lost the strength to push

and took

words to her which he had hidden well in his heart when

now, he only ignored her remind, and approached her ear under his breath, "Could you still dine with

felt herself almost paralyzed, and

She couldn't help considering those ambiguous words of

occurred to her -- she actually had seldom dinned with him in the canteen, but it was Jeanne who

was quite certain now August was

idea just got

said to herself, especially when the man was not

I

her face with his warm hands and

was totally puzzled, though she regained enough composure

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