“I’m sorry,” Serenity’s face suddenly turned red. “I… I was just… If… If you’ve got nowhere to go, you can stay with me here.”

She blurted those words out nervously at first, but now that she had gotten it off her chest, she was filled with a sense of relief.

The man’s obsidian-like eyes were fixed on her flushed red face, and a look of surprise seemed to have flashed across his face.

“If you don’t want to stay here,” she said, biting her lips, “it’s fine. Just pretend that I never said anything.”

His thin lips finally parted as he asked, “Do you want me to stay here?”

His voice was as cold as a winter spring, and the silence of the room made it sound even more crystal clear.

Had those words come from another man’s lips, it would have sounded like flirting. However, this man’s voice made it sound as if it was a factual question that demanded a definite ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. There was simply no room for ambiguity or mystery in his tone, even his eyes were perfectly calm.

Serenity pursed her lips and replied, “Yes, I’d like you to stay here.”

And that was her honest answer.

He stared at her, and a faint smile slowly bloomed on his thin lips as he said, “Okay, then.”

It was the first time she had ever seen him smile, and although it was such a faint and subdued smile, it was still so… incredibly beautiful.

***

work, she gave Jackson 5

the apartment building, there was already someone waiting

the man greeted when

go,” Jackson

got into a black Mercedes parked in front of him, looking at the five-dollar bill in

were with last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented a room here a month ago and was released after serving her full sentence

serving her full

continued while carefully studying his boss’s expressions. “Her name is Serenity Lewis. Three years ago, she was the one who killed Miss Mira Hall in a car crash. She was charged with drunk driving. She’s also Zeke Shaw’s ex-girlfriend. She was sentenced

name as a faint but playful smile

a wife, and if he had to choose

this woman, Serenity Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson wondered what kind of expressions he would see on

boldly brought him back to her

of the blue, Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind

say. “I guess it depends

Jackson blushed slightly.

ready on my desk when I get back to

an affirmative, wondering if Mr. Valor had… taken a liking to

***

call from her father, asking her to go home and saying that

eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them

away a long time ago, and she was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another daughter, whose name

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