Chapter 378

Jackson knew that she was afraid of the dark. She had the habit of leaving the lights on even when she slept.

There was a period of time when she was renting her own place. At the time, she could sleep with the lights off, but she seemed to have reverted to her old habit of sleeping with the lights on.

Jackson frowned at the possibility that she wasn’t in her room.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, he heard a muffled sound coming from within. So she was in her room the whole time!

He paused in his tracks and reached for the light switch in the dark. The room was engulfed in brightness the moment the lights were switched on.

Immediately, he noticed a slender figure curled up in the corner of the room. She buried her face in her knees, and her shoulders twitched as she sobbed silently.

Was she crying?

knelt down next to

with her almond eyes. They were red and swollen, indicating that she had been crying for quite a while now. Tear stains ran down her

was at that moment. He rarely saw her cry, but every

please.” It was only after a while that Jackson

and spoke while choking on her own tears. “I… I wasn’t able to find my mother. I couldn’t find her… I tried but

out. Following her return, she had spent days thinking long and hard about where his father had moved her mother’s grave. Was it the local cemetery? Or was it somewhere out

the matter, she had no idea

her

do? Pay them fifty million dollars? Even if she sold herself, she was

on Jackson. It suddenly made sense why her father and stepmother were asking her to fork out fifty million dollars. While she would never be

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