“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.
***
5 dollars so that he could
exited the apartment building, there was already someone
Valor,” the man greeted when he
go,” Jackson casually
a black Mercedes parked in front of
last night is a contract worker at the Sanitation Office. She rented a room here a month ago
serving
Connor 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 to three years in prison, and her lawyer’s license was
faint but playful smile cropped up on his lips.
candidate for 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
this woman, Serenity Lewis, found out about his connections to Mira Hall,
woman had ever taken his hand and boldly brought
Jackson asked, “Connor, what kind of woman do
guess it depends on what kind of woman you like, Mr.
Jackson blushed slightly.
on my desk when I get back to the office,” he
wondering if Mr.
***
back from work, 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 home and pay respects to her mother’s
had always seemed too eager to cut all connections with her. In fact, over the last three years, none of them had ever visited her. It was as if
was only three years old then. Three months after that, her father remarried and had another
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