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.”

ever seen him smile, and although it was such a faint and subdued smile, it was still so…

***

work, she gave Jackson 5 dollars so that he could get himself something

he exited the apartment building, there was already someone waiting for

greeted when he saw Jackson.

go,” Jackson

in front of him, looking at the five-dollar

the car, “The woman you were with last night is

serving her full sentence?”

Miss Mira Hall in a

as a faint but playful smile cropped up on his

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, she had unexpectedly died in a car crash before the wedding

Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of expressions he would see

boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him in a gentle but firm voice that

Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind of woman do you

what to say. “I guess it depends on what kind

Jackson blushed slightly.

information ready on my desk when I get

an affirmative, wondering if Mr.

***

Serenity got a call from her father, asking her to go home and saying that since she

she had been released, her family had always seemed too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them had ever visited her. It was as if she was dead

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

she could get the best grades in her exam. Because of

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