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.”

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

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she gave Jackson 5 dollars so that he could get himself something to eat.

the apartment building, there was already

man greeted when

go,” Jackson

then got into a black Mercedes parked in front of

personal assistant, began reporting as soon as he got into the car, “The woman you were with last night is a contract

her full sentence?”

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. She was sentenced to three years in

woman’s name as a faint but playful

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,

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

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

blue, Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind of

what to say. “I guess it depends on

Jackson blushed slightly.

Lewis’s information ready on my desk when I get back to the office,” he

if Mr. Valor had… taken a liking to Serenity

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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

too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them had ever

ago, and she was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried

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

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