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.”

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

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

the apartment building, there was already

Valor,” the man greeted when he saw

Jackson casually

then got into a black Mercedes parked in front of him,

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

after serving her

Three years ago, she was the one who killed Miss Mira Hall in a car crash. She was charged with

faint but playful smile

was a pretty good candidate for a wife, and if he had to choose a woman to marry, Mira seemed not

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

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

Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind of woman do

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

Jackson blushed slightly.

Serenity Lewis’s information ready on my desk when I get back

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

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asking her to go home and saying that

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.

then. Three months after that, her father remarried

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

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