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 subdued smile, it

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dollars so that

building,

the man greeted when he

Jackson casually

got into a black Mercedes parked in front of him, looking at the five-dollar bill in his

Gunn, Jackson Valor’s longtime personal assistant, began reporting as soon as he got into the car, “The woman you were with last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office.

serving her

a car crash. She was charged

murmured the woman’s name as a faint

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

Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of expressions he would see on

first time a woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before

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

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

Jackson blushed slightly.

sure I’ve got all of Serenity Lewis’s information ready on my desk when I get back to the office,”

wondering if Mr.

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she got back from work, Serenity got 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

over the

then. Three months after that,

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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