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

***

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

apartment building, there was already someone waiting for him.

the man greeted when he

go,” Jackson casually

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

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

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

a faint but playful smile cropped

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

Mira Hall,

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

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

of what to say. “I guess it depends on what kind of

Jackson blushed slightly.

ready on my desk when I

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

***

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

since she had been released, her family had always seemed too eager to cut all connections with 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. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another daughter,

best grades in her

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