Obsessive CEO’s Sinful Wife by Lil’ Bamboo

Chapter 17

Serenity could feel her heart pounding heavily in her chest.

Goodness, what had gotten into her?!

She blushed and quickly withdrew her hand.

“Okay, let’s… eat before it gets cold.”

With that, she concentrated on her food and started eating voraciously.

Jackson smiled faintly as he watched her face almost disappear into her bowl of soup, and the amusement in his eyes seemed to deepen.

“Then, do you like me, Sis?”

“Yes, I do,” Serenity replied without hesitation.

“I like you very much too,” Jackson said, his lips curling up into a smile.

It seemed like it had been a long time since someone had captured his interest like this.

***

After the City Council inspection ended, Janice said to Serenity, “Serenity, our high school classmates are planning a class reunion this weekend. You should come too.”

A class reunion?

Serenity laughed inwardly. Given her current situation, attending a class reunion would only invite more ridicule.

“No, I have something else on that day, so I won’t go,” Serenity replied.

“Come on, we rarely gather. What could you possibly have to do that you can’t skip? Join us, okay?” Janice urged, clearly eager for Serenity to turn up at the reunion.

If the former class valedictorian and class beauty were to show up in her current state, it would surely astonish everyone. Janice couldn’t wait to show their former classmates the state Serenity was in.

“I have to work this weekend. Did you think my job included weekends as regular days off?” Serenity replied.

Janice was momentarily speechless. She had indeed forgotten about that.

“But…”

“I have to go pick up rubbish now. Let’s talk another time if anything comes up,” Serenity interrupted Janice and walked away without waiting for the other woman to finish speaking.

Serenity wasn’t an idiot. She could clearly see what Janice’s intentions were.

However, she didn’t expect that even though she had deliberately tried to avoid it, the deputy director specifically instructed her to deliver a document to someone at the City Council on Sunday who was at a luxurious club in Solaria City.

Ordinary sanitation workers couldn’t even dream of entering an establishment like this, but when she arrived at the club entrance, staff members were waiting there as if they had already known she was coming, and they led her through a side entrance into the club.

One of the staff members pushed open the door to a private room that was filled with people.

As soon as Serenity entered the room, a familiar voice called out, “Hey, look! Guess who’s here!”

Serenity looked up to see Janice, Amanda, and a group of her former high school classmates.

who had called out was

affiliated with the City Council, and the leader of the Sanitation Office branch Serenity was working at would naturally want to establish a good relationship with her. So, if Janice mentioned a seemingly insignificant document that needed to be delivered and specified who

class beauty is now working as a sanitation worker!” Amanda chimed in with a grin

worker uniform stood out conspicuously in the private

former academic genius and beauty? I almost didn’t recognize you after you spent three years in prison. Didn’t Zeke use to dote on you excessively? And yet, you’re now working as a sanitation worker. What happened? Did he toss you aside without

heard Zeke’s name. Every time she heard his

slowly, and she realized it was William Sanders. He

assault her. After Zeke had taught him a lesson, he had become more restrained and didn’t bother

walked up directly to Janice, handing over the document and saying, “This should be the file you wanted.”

a fake, hypocritical smile and took the

for the trouble, Serenity.”

and leave, William suddenly grabbed her arm from behind and said, “What’s the rush to leave? It’s a class reunion, after all. Let’s catch up,

a glass of

charged for drunk driving back then, right? Don’t tell

her head to avoid the glass. She also forcefully shoved William away from

his balance, and the red wine splashed all over his

just a street sweeper right now! You really don’t know what’s good even if it landed in your

bottle of

chilled wine drenched her body, leaving her in a disheveled

said, “Serenity, you should apologize to William. Perhaps he’ll forgive

Apologize?

she was the one being insulted here, yet they expected

into her inky eyes. No matter how wretched a state she was in currently, she wouldn’t be easily defeated!

only served to anger William further.

girlfriend? I’m asking you to apologize because I hold you in high regard, you know? No one would stand up for

sharp tearing sound echoed in the room, and Serenity’s clothes

she exclaimed in

was willing to speak up for her, let alone step forward to stop

three years of imprisonment with hardly any exposure to sunlight, her skin was fairer than an average person’s, but it was also covered in

scars had yet to fade, and they appeared grotesque and

these were remnants from her time in jail.

Wincing in pain, she turned to see that Amanda was currently stepping on

now, why are you in such a hurry to leave? You haven’t even

her desire was only to see

of her hand made Serenity feel as if she

those times, she couldn’t even resist and could only

But now…

mustered up all her strength and yanked her left hand from William’s grasp. Then, she shoved Amanda off her before running out

escape… She had

torn clothes and ran forward desperately. But suddenly, a tremendous force struck her from behind, causing her to fall flat to the ground, and a foot heavily stomped on

It hurt!

was so painful!

back felt like it

“What’s this? Are you trying to escape? Haven’t you heard about this

abruptly stopped

Serenity heard a painfully familiar voice, “William? What are you

Serenity stiffened.

That was… Zeke.

everything, but in the end, he had casually discarded her like an

encounter Zeke again after her release, much less in

doesn’t know what’s good for her even if it fell into her lap, you

and forced her

fell on Zeke’s familiar

distressed every time she was in pain, but now, he merely

back then when he had coldly agreed to let someone cripple her hand.