“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.
***
to work, she gave Jackson 5 dollars so that he could get
as he exited the apartment building,
man greeted when he saw
go,” Jackson
got into a black Mercedes parked in front of
Valor’s longtime personal assistant, began reporting as soon as he got into the car, “The woman you were with last night is a contract
after serving
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
a faint but playful smile
him, so he had agreed, seeing that she was a pretty good candidate for a wife, and if he had to choose a woman to marry, Mira seemed not
connections to Mira Hall,
the first time a woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him in a gentle but firm voice that she
what kind of woman
“I guess it depends on what kind
Jackson blushed slightly.
sure I’ve got all of Serenity Lewis’s information ready on my desk when
Mr. Valor had… taken
***
Serenity got a call from her father, asking her to go home and saying that since she was now released from prison, she should go
since she had been released, her family had always seemed too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over
she was only three years old then. Three months after
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