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.”

mean that you should stay cold. Besides, I didn’t spend all that much at all, and I

to me?” he asked in

your big sister,

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

“If we rub

hands stiffened a little, and the eyes behind the bangs narrowed. No woman had ever rubbed his hands

to touch him. But for some reason, he did not despise Serenity’s touch all that much. Was it because this woman was the most important part of this game

not react, she suddenly thought of something and glanced down

rough that it hurts you…?” she asked before

that the warmth in

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

hers again. Compared 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 her hands rubbed against

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

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

***

Serenity received

photo album, but I begged him not to do

Aria was referring to. It was the one with photos of her mother and herself

you don’t come over, I might misplace the photo album and lose

Serenity and quickly ended the

would 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 mother. All of her memories about her mother came from that photo

crisp baritone sounded in

came back to her senses and took a deep

while, Jack, so don’t wait up

her coat before stepping out of the door, oblivious to the pair