Chapter 76

After Serenity accepted the check, she left the store with Lisa

“Serenity, don’t you think that was a little strange? Lisa said as they exited the store. “Zeke actually handed you seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars without any hesitation, and Jenny was right there! Wasn’t he afraid that she would misunderstand?”

“It really is strange,” Serenity agreed.

“Do you think it’s because Zeke still has feelings for you?” Lisa wondered.

“No. He’s afraid. It’s as if he was afraid that I might get angry at Joy, and that would be detrimental to the Shaw Jarmily,” Serenity said, expressing her thoughts honestly.

Lisa found her statement somewhat absurd.

“Maybe he’s overthinking it.

“Who knows what goes on in his mind?” Serenity said with a shrug before looking at the check in her hand

Tear it up?” Lisa asked, knowing her friend

just donate it to those in

a meal, and as they were approaching the escalator to the underground parking lot after they were done, they saw Zeke, Joy, and

dark and grim, almost as if they were

the three of them also spotted Serenity and Lisa approaching the escalator.

make him so protective of her. He didn’t even allow a single negative word to make it past her lips without a scolding to follow

ago, when Zeke had warned her that if she picked on Serenity again, he would

and it felt like she would explode at any moment.

was about to walk past her to the escalator, Joy suddenly extended her foot and tripped the

cauglat off–guard, and she tumbled down

in shock and rushed to the side of the

and Serenity had

up and glared at

that your actions almost cost Serenity her life?!”

running into my foot. That’s not my fault, and she can’t blame me now, can

look at the

she anxiously looked over Serenity and asked, “Are you okay?!”

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