Chapter 57

Serenity raised her head ever so slightly to glance rideways. She then breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Jackson, asking. “Have you paid the hill?

“Yeah.”

“Let’s go, then,” she said, grabbing her handbag. Then, as if trying to escape something, she hurried out of the restaurant.

“What’s going on?” Jackson asked. “Are you hiding from someone?

She paused her steps. A peculiar look flushed across her face, and she said, “My former colleagues were in that restaurant,

I didn’t want them to see me

As she spoke, she chackled, almost as if marlding herself, and she added, “Isn’t it ridiculous? They all know what has happened to me, and they must’ve guessed how far I’ve fallen now, yet I still can’t face them and want to hide from them.”

She did not want to see the pity in their eyes. She did not want to see them feeling sorry for her.

and

tooth and nail to build herself a successful career as a lawyer, yet now, while all her colleagues were still in the profession, that path was closed off

at that mament suddenly made

time,” he said softly, holding her

any

of

no longer dared to dream of a bright future because she had to fight

the other day. I’m warning you, don’t ever get Involved with that woman again!

ear through the phone.

he had started dating Jenny Hall, whom his family very much approved of The Shaw family and the Hall family were equals, so they

really bad for them, the Hall family might be able to save them by persuading Jackson Valor to

mind, and he could not deny that she was no longer the same woman she used to be all those years ago. Although she might still look exactly the same, the aura she now exuded was completely different. Not to mention that

now knew that Jenny was his suitable match. As for Serenity, she now belonged in the past, a past that might forever be a stain on him should anyone mention it to him in the future. He felt slightly guilty when he saw how she had ended up now, of course. After all, when she had asked him

it was ultimately her own fault that she had killed Mira Hall! That one tragle mistake meant that she had not only offended the Hall family but the powerful Valor family as well. How could

thoughts went through his mind, a slender figure at the intersection that he saw through the windshield

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