"Jack..."Serenity murmured softly, and her whispering voice hit Jackson's heart hard, as if with the weight of a million pounds.Serenity raised her chin, and a smile bloomed on her face as she kissed him fiercely.Jackson looked at her in confusion. She was so close to him, and he could have avoided the kiss, but... He chose not to.Serenity was the only one who could make him like this.When he heard her calling his name in a rasping voice, he finally snapped back to his senses. He had almost lost his mind earlier!Jackson took a deep breath and rang the emergency call bell.Not long after, the doctors and nurses rushed over and gave Serenity another dose of sedative. Finally, Serenity quieted down once more. Connor noticed something different about Jackson. Connor had been with Jackson for years. Others might not have noticed anything, but he could sense something different about Jackson.'Could it be...' Connor glanced at Serenity on the bed. Suddenly, a moment of clarit
Nevertheless, he certainly had no feelings left for Serenity! It was a pity that he could not possibly tell Jenny the truth now, but he was still anxious that Jenny might misunderstand him."Jenny," he said after taking a deep breath, "there are some things that I just can't tell you even if I wanted to."Jenny stared at Zeke for a while and asked, "Does Serenity Lewis have anything to do with Joy's injury?"Zeke stared back at his fiancee in astonishment, completely unable to utter a word. Still, his silence and expressions were enough to let Jenny know that her guess was correct."So she really does have something to do with it," she said, before continuing to speculate, "Did she make a new friend in prison? A friend with some connections, maybe?"Before Zeke could answer her, a voice suddenly rang out, "So my injuries were Serenity's doing, huh?!"Joy walked into the room with a limp. She had merely intended to come over to tell her brother and Jenny to return to the living
Joy almost passed out due to the shock. How could she ever guess that Jackson Valor would be the one behind her injuries and that he had ordered the attack to help Serenity?!Why would he do such a thing for a woman like that?!After all, his fiancee, Mira Hall, was a renowned beauty! As for Serenity... Well, Joy had to concede to the fact that she used to be beautiful in the past, but after being in prison for three years and now becoming a sanitation worker sweeping the streets all day, she would never even have the time to take care of her appearances, so how pretty could she be?!How could it be possible that Jackson Valor, a man so used to being surrounded by great beauties, would ever be interested in a woman like Serenity?!"That's why you must never harm Serenity ever again," Zeke warned his sister. "Also, don't ever tell anyone about anything I said just now, not even Mom and Dad! Jackson told me that he doesn't want anyone to know about this. In fact, I've probably made a
A cold shudder spread through his body as Zeke thought about this, and he turned to look at Jenny beside him. Right now, the Hall family and the Shaw family were each other's close allies, so even if Jackson Valor was currently interested in Serenity, he would probably never go so far as to... declare war against the two wealthy families just because of a woman like her, would he?After all, Serenity had no one else to blame but herself for all the bad things that happened to her back then, right?!***Serenity felt as if she had been stuck in an unending nightmare.In it, she was back in prison where no matter where she tried to run and hide, no matter how much she begged for mercy, she could never escape any of the torture she was subjected to. Bitterly cold water, disgusting filth, all the feet that had stepped on her head, pinning her to the ground as they mocked her, "Isn't that the great lawyer, Miss Lewis? Look how far she has fallen! She used to be an intellectual, yet now
"But... The clothes you're wearing are..."He seemed to only realize then that he had been wearing the same clothes he was when having dinner with Zack last night. Jack would never have been able to afford any of these clothes.Still, after all that had transpired last night, he no longer planned to hide his true identity anymore, especially considering he had to reveal it to her eventually, anyway. What difference would it make if she found out a little earlier now?Besides, it would be easier for him to keep her under his wing of protection once she learned who he really was."Even if my clothes are different," he smiled at her and asked her, "I'm still the same Jack, aren't I?"By that point, even if Serenity had been a complete idiot, she would still have easily detected something wrong and realized that the truth had not been as she imagined. "You're not homeless?""No," he confessed."Then... Then why did you pretend to be homeless?"She started to feel as if she had be
A feeling arose in him, telling him to protect her at all costs.So many people had cursed at him for being cruel and cold-hearted in the past, yet none of them would ever imagine that right now, he would have such a strong urge to protect a woman."Don't worry," he assured her, "what you feared didn't happen last night. I managed to stop it just in time when I got there."So... he really had saved her!Serenity raised her head and stared bewilderedly at the face that was merely inches away from hers and asked, "But how did you get there in time to save me?"He had not even gone to town with her yesterday!"Have you forgotten?" He smiled gently. "You called me, so I managed to rush there just in time."But it was just a call! How had he managed to get there in time to save her when he was almost a hundred miles away?!Serenity's heart was suddenly filled with an inexplicable shock.As he spoke, he carried her back onto the bed and carefully tucked her under the blanket before
Jackson hung up the phone as soon as he had finished his sentence.Master Zack stared at the phone screen silently for a while before giving it back to the nurse beside him.Was there really no need for him to worry? It would be great if that was true, but sometimes, being uncertain was often the scariest thing. He was reminded of how his own son had once assured him by saying "Dad, I'll never neglect all my duties to the Valor family just for a woman!".Yet in the end, his son had abandoned the Valor family and even sacrificed his life just for a woman!"Go find out who that woman actually is," he ordered. "I want to know every little detail about her."A voice answered, "Yes, sir."The voice had come from a corner of the room where a man clad in a black suit and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses sat with a laptop in front of him, his fingers flying over the keyboard.*** Serenity lay on the hospital bed, her mind still in a jumbled mess. Too many things had happened sinc
She opened her bag and checked the contents. All her belongings were still there. As for her phone, she recalled that it had been snatched away from her at the Foster's house when they discovered it. Her phone was turned off, so she turned it back on only to find that there were tons of missed calls and unread messages.Some of those were from her grandmother, some from Lisa, and others were from unknown numbers.Serenity had a good guess of why her grandmother would call her. As for Lisa... She scrolled through her phone and found that Lisa had called her more than twenty times, so she called her back right away.Lisa picked up almost as soon as the call went through and asked, "Is that you, Serenity?""Yes," she replied, "it's me. I... turned off my phone yesterday, and I saw your calls just now when I turned it back on."Lisa sighed in relief and said, "Oh my God, I was so worried when I couldn't call you last night. You told me you were going to your grandmother's house for th