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

***

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

as he exited the apartment building,

the man greeted when he saw Jackson.

go,” Jackson casually

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

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

her

a car crash. She was charged with drunk driving. She’s also Zeke Shaw’s ex-girlfriend. She was sentenced to three years in

Lewis…” Jackson murmured the woman’s name as a faint but playful smile cropped up on his lips. “Interesting.”

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

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

case, after all these 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

what kind of woman do

what to say. “I guess

Jackson blushed slightly.

my desk when I get back to the

Mr. Valor had… taken

***

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

In fact, over the last three years, none of

away a long time ago, and she was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father

get the best grades in her exam. Because of that, she had always excelled academically, and slowly, even her father had begun

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