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.”

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

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5 dollars so that he

the apartment building, there was

the man greeted

Jackson casually

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

with last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented a room here a month ago and was

after serving her

boss’s expressions. “Her name is Serenity Lewis. Three 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.

the woman’s name as a faint but playful smile cropped

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

Serenity Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of expressions he would see on her face.

taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before

“Connor, what kind of woman

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

Jackson blushed slightly.

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

with an affirmative, wondering if Mr.

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

connections with her. In fact, over the last

a long time ago, and she was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another daughter, whose

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 of that, she had always excelled academically, and slowly, even her father had begun to be proud enough of her to show her off

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