It seemed Mr. Smith was indeed as capable as Lucas had mentioned!Serenity's answer hit Lucas like a shocking wave in his heart. What kind of pain had she suffered?! She had had her fingernails pulled out and her fingers broken… Who had done this to her?! Lucas felt the urge to kill at the thought of that!Mr. Smith examined Serenity's fingers with a grave expression on his face. After a long silence, he said, "Come. Get an X-ray. I need to see the X-ray of your fingers."Mr. Smith then led Serenity into an isolation room, which was completely out of place in this small clinic. After taking the X-ray, Mr. Smith studied the film carefully. He thought for a long time and said to Serenity, "Your fingers weren't properly treated after the injury. You've missed the golden period for treatment.""I know," Serenity said. When Jackson had sent her to the specialist doctor, the doctor there had said the same thing."Your fingers must hurt in cold and humid weather. You may be struggling wi
"No need to thank me. All I did was bring you here. Mr. Smith said it can be treated, so it should be fine," Lucas said.Lucas casually asked as he drove, "When did you injure your hand?""It’s been almost four years," Serenity answered.'Almost four years…' Lucas thought about it and realized that that would be when Serenity had been in prison. "You got injured in prison?"Serenity remained silent and said nothing, but the look on her face had given him the answer."Who was it? Who hurt you so?" There was a hint of anger in Lucas' voice as he wondered who in the world would treat Serenity so cruelly. Lucas knew Serenity had been in prison but never thought much about what she had gone through during her time in prison. He had just only realized how much she had suffered.Serenity said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter anymore.""Who did this?" Lucas asked again."Even if I tell you, what's the point? Can I put them through all the pain I've gone through?""Why not?" Lucas said
Serenity had had the pizza here before, but she had not remembered the young Lucas and the promise they had made as children at that time.Serenity picked up a slice of pizza and started eating. She decided to treat it as a day of eating out with Luke. Just like they promised. The promise where the young Lucas had said that he would treat the young Serenity to something delicious in Solaria.***At night, the Maserati drove slowly and parked next to the neighborhood. Serenity left the car upon reaching the destination, but Lucas came running after her from behind."Wait!" Serenity heard Lucas calling for her and stopped. Lucas caught up with her and handed a pizza box to her. "Take this. I saw that you liked it, so I ordered another pizza at the restaurant for takeaway.""Thanks," Serenity looked at him, her lips pursed as she accepted the food. Maybe it was the pizza that she could not refuse. Or maybe she just could not reject the young Luke she knew, particularly when he had fu
Serenity had been coming home alone lately, which was fine. On this day, however, Mr. Gomez was the one who had sent her back. The two were staring at each other, and the way he was holding his hand… They looked like a couple!Connor hoped Lucas and Serenity would quickly separate. God knows what Mr. Valor would do if they stayed like that!***Serenity walked home with a box of pizza in her hand. She took the key out of her bag and unlocked the door. Just as she was about to get the door and walk in, another hand pushed the door open one step ahead of her.Startled, Serenity turned around to find Jackson standing behind her. "When did you come?" Serenity asked in surprise.Jackson was wearing a thin and light-colored sweater and black trousers. He looked like a charming prince with that handsome face of his, but his grim face and the strange look in his eyes… There was a hint of struggle, displeasure, as well as… menace.Serenity instinctively felt danger. Jackson seemed very
He held her hand under the faucet and scrubbed her hands with soap before rinsing them with water again and again, almost as if he was desperate to completely wash away all traces of Lucas's touch, scent, and warmth… from her hands.Serenity tried hard to pull her hands away but to no avail. She had no idea how long Jackson kept scrubbing her hands until they started to sting, and she told him, "That's enough, Jackson! What exactly are you trying to do?!"Only then did he turn off the tap. He picked up a hand towel nearby and gently wiped her hands dry, saying, "Don't ever let Lucas touch your hands again."When he thought of what had happened at the entrance of the apartment complex, he was so tortured by the jealousy that rose up inside him that it was almost unbearable.He was so afraid… so afraid that she would really fall in love with Lucas Gomez!"Also," he added, "don't ever say anything that will anger me again."Serenity was momentarily taken aback, but she then smiled w
Serenity stared at the man in front of her. What could he possibly mean when he said that?!"If you say that you won't love me anymore because we’ve already broken up," he continued, "then what if… we start dating again, just like we did before?"All his life, he had never changed his mind about any decision that he had made, but this time, he was willing to walk back on his decision to make a clean break with Serenity, an act that was as humiliating as slapping his own face, and he was willing to do all this because of her alone! All because he simply could not endure the thought that she would not love him anymore, that she would one day truly forget him!But that only made Serenity burst out in laughter. She laughed so hard that even her nose turned red and tears streamed down her face. Back then, Jackson had so nonchalantly told her he wanted to break up with her on her birthday, and it felt as if she had been dragged down from heaven to the depths of hell, yet now, he was telli
He thought of the injustice and torture that she had had to endure in the past. The things she had gone through would have broken anyone else's spirit a long time ago!Yet Serenity had still stayed strong. She was still working hard for her survival and her future. Even though her life had been completely derailed when she was unjustly imprisoned, she still persisted and was willing to start all over again now.For a woman who seemed so delicate and slender, she was, in fact, unimaginably strong, far stronger than most people he knew.For this reason, she reminded him of the girl he knew when he was a young boy… he even thought how great it would be if Serenity was the girl he was looking for instead of Lynette!But finding Lynette had made him realize that when it was all said and done, fantasy and reality were two separate things, and that people changed.The little girl he had used to know was full of a sense of justice and would stop at nothing to do the right thing and help o
Lynette was rendered speechless. Embarrassment was written all over her face. Lucas's words left her clueless on how to react."I… But I was…""Lynette," Lucas interrupted, "I owe you for saving my life, so I'll gladly help you and give you a better life, but Serenity is the woman I love, so if she needs my help to improve her circumstances, nothing would make me happier than to help her!"Lynette's heart almost burst with a wave of jealousy! What exactly was so special about Serenity, anyway?! How could someone like her deserve such unflinching love from Lucas?!"But she doesn't love you at all!" Lynette reminded Lucas, unwilling to let it go. "Don't you mind it at all?! She said it herself in the recording!"The next moment, Lynette felt suffocated, and a gust of cold air rushed up from her feet when those shrewd eyes of his stared dead straight into hers."Lynette," he said coldly, "I hope that you will never play this kind of trick on me again, understood?"Lynette felt as i