Chapter 57

Serenity raised her head ever so slightly to glance rideways. She then breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Jackson, asking. “Have you paid the hill?

“Yeah.”

“Let’s go, then,” she said, grabbing her handbag. Then, as if trying to escape something, she hurried out of the restaurant.

“What’s going on?” Jackson asked. “Are you hiding from someone?

She paused her steps. A peculiar look flushed across her face, and she said, “My former colleagues were in that restaurant,

I didn’t want them to see me

As she spoke, she chackled, almost as if marlding herself, and she added, “Isn’t it ridiculous? They all know what has happened to me, and they must’ve guessed how far I’ve fallen now, yet I still can’t face them and want to hide from them.”

She did not want to see the pity in their eyes. She did not want to see them feeling sorry for her.

and

lawyer, yet now, while all her

felt for herself at that mament suddenly made him feel deeply sorry for her.

holding her hand tight. “One day, you’ll shine

any

of

bright future because she had to fight with all her might just to survive from day to day.

heard Jenny say you tried to get that woman. Serenity Lewis, a job the other day. I’m warning you, don’t ever get Involved with that woman again! She was the one who killed Jenny’s sister, Jackson Valor’s fiancee! Our family simply can’t afford to offend Jackson Valor!”

through the phone. Zeke frowned slightly

he had started dating Jenny Hall, whom his family very much approved of The

that if things turned really bad for them, the Hall family might be able to

in front of him and slowly stepped on the brakes. The image of Serenity crossed his mind, and he could not deny that she was no longer the same woman she used to be all those years ago. Although she might still look exactly the same, the aura she now exuded was completely different. Not to mention that the sanitation worker uniform she had been wearing convinced him that he made the absolutely correct choice in breaking

As for Serenity, she now belonged in the past, a past that might forever be a stain on him should anyone mention it to him in the future. He felt slightly guilty when he saw how she had ended up now, of course. After all, when she had asked him to collect the evidence

tragle mistake meant that she had not only offended the Hall family but the powerful Valor family

at the intersection that he saw through the

eye.

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