Chapter 523

“Zeke,” said Jenny, “it’s getting too stuffy in here. Come with me to the back garden. I need some fresh air.”

“Okay.” Zeke turned to his fiancee beside him with a conflicted look in his eyes.

“Why didn’t you want me to speak back then?” he asked her in a voice so soft that only the two of them could hear it. “Did you expect this to happen?”

“Yeah,” Jenny replied with a faint smile. “Since someone is so eager to jump in front of the bullet, there’s no point for us to stop her. Besides, now, another family apart from ours has offended Jackson Valor. In fact, she seems to have offended him much worse than we did.”

Zeke stared at the smile on his fiancee’s lips, and feelings of loss and gloominess arose in his heart. He felt as if he had truly lost something that he would never be able to get back. And now, all he could do was to be tied up forever with this woman in front of him–all for the benefit of their two families!

Not far away from them, there was another man who had been watching the commotion with a cold gaze.

Lucas Gomez looked on with his key gaze at the three women pointing fingers at each other, pushing the blame onto one another. Then, he raised his head and emptied the red wine in his glass in one gulp.

three women were trying to turn Serenity into a laughingstock amidst the crowd, he had the urge to step up and stop them, but just as he was about to step forward, Jackson had already appeared and was heading straight toward

he realized what a pointless and meaningless thing he was about to do. Serenity already had Jackson to protect her. There

mocking her and laughing at her, naturally, Jackson would also

a fight with Jackson just for that woman? Lucas lowered his eyes,

standing beside him, softly

getting further and further away from her. Or to be more precise, she realized that in truth, she had never gotten anywhere close

muttered in a flat voice. “This party is

strode out of the function hall toward the

cried in shock before hastily following behind Lucas.

carried Serenity out of the function hall, so she told him,

sure?” he asked, looking

too much attention when

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