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

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 to

for herself at that mament suddenly

just avold them this time,” he said softly, holding her hand tight.

any

of

longer dared to dream of a bright future because she

I’m warning you, don’t ever get Involved with that woman again! She was the one

father’s stern voice rang in his ear through the phone. Zeke frowned slightly and simply replied, “I know,

Jenny Hall, whom his family very much approved of The Shaw family and the Hall family

that if things turned really bad for them, the Hall family might be able to save them by persuading

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 the sanitation worker uniform she

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

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 be ever help

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

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