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.”

didn’t spend all that much at all, and I couldn’t afford to buy nearly enough clothes for you anyway. At the very least, I could keep

nice to me?” he asked in a low

your big sister, that’s

she held them firmly with both of her hands before leaning down to blow

cold,” she said. “If we rub them like

little, and the eyes behind the bangs narrowed. No woman had

did not despise Serenity’s touch all that much. Was it because this woman was the most important part

of something

hurts you…?” she asked before releasing his hands in a

that the

offering his hands up to her as he said, “My hands are still cold. Can you rub it a little

but then took his hands into hers again. Compared to his hands, hers looked quite small, but on that cold wintry night, those tiny hands tried their

bent down from time to time to breathe warm air onto his hands. Because of the cold weather, the tip of her nose was flushed red, and he found that quite adorable.

his hands being wrapped around those tiny

***

received a call from Aria.

photo album, but I begged him not to do it. I want to give it to you, but can you

photo album Aria was referring to. It was the one with

gentle voice, “If you don’t come over, I might misplace the photo album and lose it. Wouldn’t

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

no reason. She definitely must have some kind of sinister plan. Still, this concerned the memories of her mother. All of her memories about her mother came from that photo

baritone sounded

back to her senses and took

going out for a while, Jack, so don’t wait up and

out of the door, oblivious to the pair of eyes that had been