Obsessive CEO’s Sinful Wife by Lil’ Bamboo

Chapter 49
However, the pair of eyes under the fringe were unusually direct, as if to him, it was just an innocent question.
‘Hmm… Jack looks naive. He probably didn’t mean anything by that,’ thought Serenity.
She cleared her throat and said, “I can like you, but it’s not love. They’re two different kinds of feelings. In my opinion, love is eternal, irreplaceable, and you would even be willing to… live and die together.”
His dark eyes abruptly narrowed. Live and die together? Strangely enough, when he heard her say that, the first thought that came to his mind was… Living and dying together with her did not sound so bad.
Did that mean he was in love with her?
How could that be? He almost laughed out loud at the thought.
He admitted that he had a fondness for her and felt attached to her. He cared about her and seemed to have unknowingly gotten addicted to the feeling of staying by her side. Otherwise, he would not have played this game for so long.

But falling in love with her… he would not do that.
He swore to himself a long time ago that he would never fall in love with any woman!
“Besides, you’ll never make me sad, will you?’ Her gentle voice transmitted into his ears.
He looked at her slightly red cheeks and her faint smile, and he smiled in response. “That’s right. I’ll never make you sad.” He wondered if she would be sad the day she found out that he was Jackson Valor.
Or would she be elated? Maybe she would be elated that she could befriend him?
But whatever her reaction would be, he could keep his promise to protect her forever. After all, for him, it wasn’t anything hard.
Serenity went to work as usual the next day. After cleaning the streets with Xyla, they went back to the Sanitation Office for lunch break. When they arrived, Serenity noticed that their co-workers seemed to be stealing glances at her. Some of the gazes were curious, some were contemptuous, some were mocking. and some showed sympathy.
A lot of them were also pointing at her and whispering among each other.
Serenity was wondering what happened when Xyla walked over from the tool storage room, pulled her aside and whispered, “Serenity, were you in jail before?”
Serenity felt as if she was electrocuted. Her face suddenly turned pale. All her questions from a moment ago had just been answered.
In truth… she had long prepared herself me ntally for this moment. She knew that sooner or later, the people around her would find out that she was an ex-convict.
After all, no secret was truly safe in this world.
But when the secret actually got out, when the people around her started looking at her askew and talking about her behind her back, she still felt really vulnerable, like she was standing naked in a snowy land.