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.”

was the first time she had ever seen him smile, and although it was such a faint and subdued smile, it was still so…

***

went off to work, she gave Jackson 5 dollars so

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

Valor,” the man greeted when he

go,” Jackson

of him, looking at

he got into the car, “The woman you 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

was the one who killed Miss Mira Hall in a car crash. She was charged

name as a faint

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

woman, Serenity Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall,

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 in a gentle but firm voice

the blue, Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind of woman do you think deserves

“I guess it depends on what kind of woman you like, Mr.

Jackson blushed slightly.

ready on my desk when I

an affirmative, wondering if Mr. Valor had… taken a liking to Serenity

***

from her father, asking her to go home and saying that since

her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them had ever visited her. It was as if she was dead to

only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had

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

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