Obsessive CEO’s Sinful Wife by Lil’ Bamboo

Chapter 3

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.”

ever seen him smile, and although it was such a faint and subdued smile, it was still so…

***

Serenity went off to work, she gave Jackson 5 dollars so

apartment building, there was already someone waiting for him.

man greeted when

Jackson

a black Mercedes parked in front of him, looking

Connor 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. She rented a room here a month ago and was released after serving her full sentence two months ago.”

her full

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

woman’s name as a faint but playful smile cropped up on his lips. “Interesting.”

had to choose a woman to marry, Mira seemed not to be a bad choice at

found out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered

had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him in a gentle but firm voice that she

Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind of woman do you think deserves someone like me?”

in surprise, unsure of what to say. “I guess

Jackson blushed slightly.

all of Serenity Lewis’s information ready on my desk when

Mr. Valor had… taken a liking to

***

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 to her mother’s ashes.

family had always seemed too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the

and she was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another daughter, whose name was Aria Lewis.

that Aria 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

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