Obsessive CEO’s Sinful Wife by Lil’ Bamboo

Chapter 5

“Because…” Serenity swallowed the last bite of her bun which tasted mediocre, at best. In the past, she would have disliked it, but now, taste had become secondary to her. What was more important was to have enough food to fill her belly.

“I guess it’s because we’re the same kind of people,” she continued. “We’ve both been tossed aside by society, and we’re just trying to survive at the bottom rung. No one wants people like us, and nobody cares about us, but at least we can hug each other for warmth, and I can cherish you, and you can cherish me, right?”

She smiled gently. It was a smile full of hope, longing, and even nervousness.

“Is that so?” he murmured. “Sounds like we really are very similar…”

His gaze was that of a hunter who had just seen his prey falling into his trap. Perhaps life had been too easy for him lately. So easy that it had become boring. Anything he wanted, he merely had to stretch out his arm, and it would be there for him to reach it. As time went by, this easy kind of life became uninteresting to the point of being irksome. Yet, this game he was playing made everything exciting again.

“Sis.” He softly murmured the words that she had been waiting to hear.

In an instant, her smile bloomed till it sparkled like stars in the sky.

***

After dinner, Serenity took Jackson out to the night market so that she could buy him some clothes.

Although she ended up only choosing cheap used clothes, it still cost her 70 dollars. She immediately told Jackson to put on the padded jacket and asked him, “Is it a little warmer now?”

“Yeah,” he replied nonchalantly, his eyes looking down at the woman who was about a head shorter than him. “You didn’t have to buy all these clothes for me, you know. I’m used to the cold now. I would’ve been fine wearing my old clothes.”

that much at all, and I couldn’t afford to buy

so nice to me?” he asked in a low

I’m your big sister,

touched his hands and discovered that they were as cold as ice, so she held them firmly with both of her hands before leaning down to blow warm breaths onto them

said. “If we rub them like this, they’ll get warmer.”

the eyes behind the bangs narrowed. No woman had ever rubbed his hands just

he did not despise Serenity’s touch all that much. Was it because

thought of something and glanced down at her calloused hands.

my hands so rough that it hurts you…?” she asked before releasing his hands in a hurry.

frowned slightly, almost as if he was upset that the

her before offering his hands up to her as he said, “My hands are still cold.

quite small, but on that cold wintry night, those tiny hands tried their best to wrap around his

to breathe warm air onto his hands. Because of the cold weather, the tip of her nose was flushed red, and he

looked at his hands being wrapped around those tiny hands, and he felt as if

***

days later, Serenity received a call from

going to throw away that photo album, but I begged him not to do it. I want to give it

photo album Aria was referring to. It was the one with photos of her mother and herself before she turned

in a gentle voice, “If you don’t come over, I might misplace the

Serenity and quickly ended the call without waiting for

must have some kind of sinister plan. Still, this concerned the memories of her mother. All

crisp baritone sounded in

came back to her senses and took a deep

don’t wait up and just go to sleep before me, okay?”

to her feet and put on her coat before stepping out of the door, oblivious to the pair