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.

already quite gratified when he was willing to back her

August looked up at her, frowning, "So you are

"Not at all."

Lucia shook her head.

a short silence, it suddenly occurred to August that Jamie had mentioned the girlfriend

water, August abruptly stretched out his

made him stagger before he held her into his arms out of reflection to keep himself

Lucia was astounded.

grip of her waist was so tight that she

"I might be drunken."

his hoarse and low

just felt her

even began to feel a little dizzy, probably

this drunken man might fell down

in his arms, and thus pressed her against

just beseiged her between his arms which were leaning against the car at her both

at him

"What..."

suddenly found this drunken man was regarding her with his

was no longer as orderly as usual, with some locks falling down over

and two buttons at the

was no longer the chilly August, and

"I'll try my best

tantalizing that her face began burning as her heartbeat went

raised her chin

Lucia had lost the strength to push him

took a

himself to utter such frivolous words to her which he had hidden well in his

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

herself almost paralyzed, and her mind really

this? She couldn't help considering those ambiguous

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

was quite certain now August

idea just got Lucia to

to be the substitute, she said to herself, especially when the man

I

her face with his warm hands and

though she regained enough composure some seconds later as to push him

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