I Slept with My Boss and Ran Away

Azure’s probing for so many details made Audrey a bit wary. Audrey said seriously, “Miss Azure, what do you mean? Are you doubting that I’m Meredith?”

Azure didn’t expect Audrey to be so direct. She stared at Audrey and asked, “Are you?”

“Do you not want me to be?” Audrey met Azure’s gaze and said, “You like Terrence, don’t you? I noticed it last time when we were dining at Ravenwood.”

Hearing this, Azure felt a bit guilty and said, “I used to like him, but I know it’s impossible between us. I hope you are Meredith. After Meredith had an accident, Terrence was depressed for more than half a year. Now that you’re back, he’s finally pulled himself together, and everything is back on track. But if you intend to hurt Terrence or Rowan, I won’t sit idly by.”

Audrey held her water cup in a way that was a habitual gesture of Meredith’s; she would subconsciously tap the cup with her index finger. This action eased some of Azure’s doubts.

Audrey said, “There are many things I don’t remember, but regardless of whether I can recall them or not, I won’t hurt anyone. I have no intention of harming anyone; Rowan is adorable and Terrence is very kind.”

“Remember what you’re saying now,” Azure said. “Terrence has just come out of his sorrow; he can’t take another blow.”

That last sentence was the key point. Azure was worried about Terrence getting hurt again, whether the person in front of her was the amnesiac Meredith or someone else.

Audrey didn’t speak, and Azure didn’t say anything further. She was actually here to find Audrey deliberately because she was worried that running into Terrence would be awkward.

“I have something else to do, so I’ll leave now. You can come to my dance studio when you’re free; you used to come often. By the way, Reese and Johnny are about to get married; they’ve already met each other’s parents,” Azure said. “Reese was someone you recruited from Falconer Holdings; she’s been following you ever since. She’s completely transformed her life and is very grateful to you.”

“Okay,” Audrey said. “I’ll visit when I have time.”

Azure didn’t say any more and got up to leave.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

With only Audrey left in the office, she put down her water cup as memories of encountering a typhoon at sea surfaced in her mind. Her head began to ache, and her heart hurt even more.

Audrey quickly took some medicine from her bag and then lay down on the sofa to rest.

Every time she took this medicine, she would become drowsy.

Unknowingly, Audrey fell asleep and felt the suffocating sensation of falling into the sea again. The cold seawater engulfed her as turbulent waves crashed over her repeatedly until she woke up on the back of a whale.

There was another woman beside her.

In the dream, the woman was drenched and anxiously performing first aid on her. When she opened her eyes, the woman asked, “Are you okay?”

She saw the woman’s face clearly and was startled because it was covered in blood from being bitten by sea creatures. A long wooden plank pierced through the woman’s waist.

“I’m fine… Are you okay? What’s your name? How did you end up here?”

“Meredith… Meredith…”

Someone was calling her.

Audrey opened her eyes to see Terrence. Instinctively curling up with a hand on her forehead, she said, “I fell asleep and had a dream.”

“If you’re tired, let’s go home and rest,” Terrence said gently. “What did you dream about?”

“A dream of falling into the sea. I dreamed about the day of the accident,” Audrey said as she hugged her head with both hands, trying to calm herself down. “The seawater surrounded me; it was so cold and terrifying. I almost died.”

“Don’t think about it,” Terrence said as he sat beside Audrey and wrapped his long arm around her shoulders. “It’s all in the past.”

Leaning against Terrence’s chest calmed Audrey’s frantic heart until it returned to peace.

“Let’s go home and rest,” Terrence said. “The New Year is approaching; why don’t we visit the Flack family? They took you in; we should have thanked them long ago.”

“Okay,” Audrey said. “I miss Dad and my brother too.”

The amnesiac Meredith was indeed Audrey, but in Audrey’s eyes, she considered herself the daughter of the Flack family.

Terrence nodded. “Alright then, we’ll go tomorrow. We’ll take Rowan along for a trip to the seaside.”