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

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gave Jackson 5 dollars so that he could get himself

soon as he exited the apartment building, there was already

the man greeted when he

Jackson

in front of him, looking at the five-dollar

were with last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented a room here a month ago and was released after serving her full sentence two months

serving her full sentence?”

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

faint but playful smile cropped

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

this woman, Serenity Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of

all these years, it was the first time a woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him

“Connor, what kind of woman do you think

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

Jackson blushed slightly.

on my desk when I get back to the office,” he ordered.

if Mr. Valor had… taken a liking to Serenity

***

a call from her father, asking her to go home and saying that since she was now released from prison, she should go home and pay respects to

too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years,

old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another daughter, whose name was

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,

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