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.”

had ever seen him smile, and although it was such a faint

***

she gave Jackson 5 dollars

as he exited the apartment building, there was

man greeted when he saw

Jackson casually replied.

parked in front of him, looking at the

as 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 sentence two months ago.”

after serving her full

a car crash. She was charged with drunk driving. She’s also Zeke Shaw’s ex-girlfriend. She was sentenced to three years in prison,

woman’s name as a faint but playful smile cropped up on his

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 could happen.

Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall,

woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him

kind of woman do you think

guess it depends on

Jackson blushed slightly.

my desk when I

an affirmative, wondering if Mr. Valor had… taken 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 her

seemed too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them had ever visited

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

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

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