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 nearly enough

me?” he asked in a low

I’m your big

she held them firmly with both of her hands before leaning down to blow warm breaths onto them as she rubbed them

too cold,” she said. “If we rub them like this,

the bangs narrowed. No woman had ever rubbed his hands just to warm them up the

because this woman was the most important part of this game he was playing, which made it easier for

suddenly thought of something and glanced down at

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

upset that the warmth in his hands had suddenly

hands are rough at all,” He told her before offering his hands up to her as he said, “My hands are still

to his hands, hers looked quite small, but on that cold wintry night, those tiny hands tried their best to wrap around his big hands as much as possible as the palm of

the cold weather, the tip of her nose was flushed

hands being wrapped around those tiny hands, and he felt as if he really was… getting warmer.

***

received a call

said he was going to throw away that photo album, but I begged him not

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

voice, “If you don’t come over, I might misplace the photo album and lose it. Wouldn’t that be a shame?”

address to Serenity and quickly ended the call without waiting for her sister’s reply.

never just hand the photo album to her for no reason. She definitely must have some kind of sinister plan. Still, this concerned the memories of her

sounded in her

senses and took a deep

while, Jack, so don’t wait

spoke, she hastily got to her feet and put on her coat before stepping out of the door, oblivious to the pair of eyes that had been observing her constantly.