“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

Valor,” the man greeted when

Jackson casually

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

“The woman you were with last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented a room here a month ago and

after serving her full

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 to

Jackson murmured the woman’s name as a faint but playful smile

a wife, and if he had to choose a woman to marry, Mira seemed not to be a bad choice at all. But then, she had unexpectedly died in a car crash before the wedding

Serenity Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall, Jackson

all these years, it was the first time a woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought him back to her place before confessing to him in

“Connor, what kind of woman do you

what to say. “I guess it depends on what kind

Jackson blushed slightly.

sure I’ve got all of Serenity Lewis’s information ready on

with an affirmative, wondering if Mr. Valor had… taken

***

saying

family had always seemed too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them had

three years old then. Three months after that, her

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