Chapter 3

“I’m sorry,” Serenity’s face suddenly turned red. “I… I was just… If… If you’ve got nowhere to go, you can stay with me here.”

She blurted those words out nervously at first, but now that she had gotten it off her chest, she was filled with a sense of relief.

The man’s obsidian-like eyes were fixed on her flushed red face, and a look of surprise seemed to have flashed across his face.

“If you don’t want to stay here,” she said, biting her lips, “it’s fine. Just pretend that I never said anything.”

His thin lips finally parted as he asked, “Do you want me to stay here?”

His voice was as cold as a winter spring, and the silence of the room made it sound even more crystal clear.

Had those words come from another man’s lips, it would have sounded like flirting. However, this man’s voice made it sound as if it was a factual question that demanded a definite ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. There was simply no room for ambiguity or mystery in his tone, even his eyes were perfectly calm.

Serenity pursed her lips and replied, “Yes, I’d like you to stay here.”

And that was her honest answer.

He stared at her, and a faint smile slowly bloomed on his thin lips as he said, “Okay, then.”

him smile, and although it was such a faint and subdued smile,

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to work, she gave Jackson 5 dollars so that

the apartment building, there was already someone waiting

the man greeted

Jackson

a black Mercedes parked in front of him, looking at

got into the car, “The woman you were with last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented a

after serving her full

boss’s expressions. “Her name is Serenity Lewis. Three years ago, she was the one who killed Miss Mira Hall in a car crash. She was charged with drunk driving. She’s also Zeke Shaw’s ex-girlfriend. She was sentenced to three

Lewis…” Jackson murmured the woman’s name as a faint

very eager to marry him, so he had agreed, seeing that she was a pretty good candidate for a wife, and if he had to choose a woman to marry, Mira seemed not to be a bad choice at all. But then,

about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of

time a woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him in a gentle but firm voice

“Connor, what kind of woman do

responded in surprise, unsure of what to say. “I guess it depends on what kind of woman you

Jackson blushed slightly.

on my desk when I get back to

affirmative, wondering if Mr. Valor had… taken

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home and saying that since

her. In fact, over the last three years,

away a long time ago, and she was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another daughter,

since she was very young, Serenity always knew that Aria was her father and her stepmother’s favorite child, and they would often neglect her. This drove her to work very hard so that she could get the best grades in her exam. Because of that, she had always excelled academically, and slowly, even her father had begun to be proud enough of her to show her off to his friends as a very

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