Chapter 523

“Zeke,” said Jenny, “it’s getting too stuffy in here. Come with me to the back garden. I need some fresh air.”

“Okay.” Zeke turned to his fiancee beside him with a conflicted look in his eyes.

“Why didn’t you want me to speak back then?” he asked her in a voice so soft that only the two of them could hear it. “Did you expect this to happen?”

“Yeah,” Jenny replied with a faint smile. “Since someone is so eager to jump in front of the bullet, there’s no point for us to stop her. Besides, now, another family apart from ours has offended Jackson Valor. In fact, she seems to have offended him much worse than we did.”

Zeke stared at the smile on his fiancee’s lips, and feelings of loss and gloominess arose in his heart. He felt as if he had truly lost something that he would never be able to get back. And now, all he could do was to be tied up forever with this woman in front of him–all for the benefit of their two families!

Not far away from them, there was another man who had been watching the commotion with a cold gaze.

other, pushing the blame onto one another. Then, he raised

crowd, he had the urge to step up and stop them, but just

was then that he realized what a pointless and meaningless thing he was about to do. Serenity already had Jackson to protect her. There was simply no need

were mocking her and laughing at her, naturally, Jackson would

his mind not to get into a fight with Jackson just for that woman? Lucas lowered his eyes, and a smile cropped up on his

beside him,

was getting further and further away from her. Or to be more precise, she realized that in truth, she had never gotten anywhere close to him at

muttered in a flat voice. “This party

of the

cried in shock before hastily

carried Serenity out of the function hall, so she told him, “You can put me down

sure?” he asked, looking down at

attracted too much attention when Jackson carried her in his

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