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.”

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

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

he exited the apartment building, there was already

greeted when he

go,” Jackson casually replied.

of him, looking at the five-dollar bill

is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented

her full sentence?”

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

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

Hall had been very eager to marry 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 could

out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of expressions he

hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him in a

of woman do you think deserves

to say. “I guess it depends on what kind

Jackson blushed slightly.

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

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

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

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

mother had passed away a long time ago, and she was only three years old then. Three months after

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, and slowly, even her father had begun to be proud enough of her to show her off to his friends as a very smart girl.

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