"I…" Lisa stammered. "I agree that we should get married, but… don't you think it's a little too early?"She could not wrap her head around it when she considered how she might turn from an unmarried woman into a… married woman in just three months. The pace was too dizzyingly fast for her!"Too early?" he muttered, his eyes getting darker. "I think it might be too slow. Do you know that I thought about making you my wife one day the first night we spent together all those years ago?"He had never been a thoughtless person about any aspect of his life. If he had not planned to be with this woman for the rest of his life, he would never have let her do whatever she wanted with him or had sex with her. That was precisely why, in his view, asking her to marry him in three months was simply too slow, and not too early! He should never have waited till today in the first place!Lisa was so flustered that her face turned red as a tomato. She stared at him blankly for a while before f
By sealing off this house, he would forever lock away memories of everything that happened in here and never think of them again!Jackson then took a step forward and headed out of the mansion gate. He was resolved never to return here again! This mansion contained both his hope and despair, but from now on, it would only become a long-forgotten memory to him.Just like the woman he had once called "Sis". From now on, she would be a forbidden person that he would never think of again!*** Serenity was somewhat surprised to find Lynette at her office, but she was only there to meet Mr. Graham for some legal consultation in the hopes that he would help her with a defamation case. She was planning on suing someone for maliciously attacking her online.There was no way that Mr. Graham would refuse the case, of course, especially considering the price that Lynette offered. Once the discussion about the case was over, Lynette smiled and said, "I only decided to come to you for help w
"Did you really think it was going to be that simple?!" asked Jonas. He then ogled at Lynette lewdly and commented, "You look a lot prettier now! I guess Lucas Gomez must've spent a lot of money on you.""What exactly do you want?" snapped Lynette angrily. They were already divorced, yet Jonas had come to her asking for money a few days ago, threatening her that if she would not give him the money, then he would post all of her pictures from the past online so that everyone could see what she really looked like.She was so ugly and dowdy in those pictures! Even worse was the fact that there were some intimate pictures of hers with Jonas in the mix as well! If those pictures were to end up online, not only might Lucas see them, but they would also be a great hindrance to her ambition of becoming a famous actress!Ultimately, Lynette decided to suck it up and pay Jonas the money to get those pictures from him. She assumed that everything would end there, but afterward, Jonas had come
Sandra was glaring at Clara, who was standing beside little Yanny, and a look of burning jealousy flashed in her eyes. She never thought that Clara would manage to give birth to a child even after she was thrown into jail!Meanwhile, Sandra had become completely infertile, and now, it seemed that she would be forced to take care of Clara's son for the rest of her life!She said, "It's been a while since we last met, Clara. I heard from Wilson that Yanny is his son. In that case, I will regard him as my own son from now on!"She then pointed at her driver who was standing behind her, and in the driver's hands were all kinds of toys."These are the toys I got for Yanny," Sandra explained. "I have no idea where you live, so I had to come find you here."As she spoke, her lips bloomed into a warm and friendly smile, yet the smile made Clara tremble in fear. Had she not smiled gently at her like this before in the past before she had then pretended to fall down the stairs? What was she
And it was precisely because he knew what those words meant that he got so angry!In the cartoons that he watched, only the rogues and thugs were put in jail. His mommy was the kindest person he knew, so how could she be anything like them?!Sandra turned to Yanny with an almost imperceptible look of hatred in her eyes, especially when she noticed how much the boy's eyes looked just like Clara's. "Just ask your mommy about it," she told him, "then you'll see if what I said was a lie."Her gaze then shifted back to Clara's pale face, and with a faked kindly manner, she asked her, "You're not going to lie to him forever, are you?"Clara felt as if she had been stabbed right in her heart. She perceived the innocently curious look on her son's face. Her lips trembled, but she had no idea how to even begin explaining everything to Yanny."Looks like you've got a lot of time on your hands, Miss Cooper."Serenity walked up to Clara's side and continued, "You're the one who sent some s
"Is that woman a baddie?" Yanny asked. "Also, why did she say that Mommy and Auntie used to be in prison?"Clara was suddenly clueless about how to explain what had happened to her son.Serenity knelt down and tousled the boy's hair before telling him, "Not everyone who went to prison is a bad person, Yanny. You see, your mommy and I have been in prison before, but it was only because other people framed us, and in the end, the law is just, and they caught the real baddie."The boy could barely grasp what Serenity was talking about, but when he heard that the real baddie was caught in the end, he sighed in relief."What about Mommy?" he asked, turning to Clara. "Was Mommy framed by the real baddies too?"Clara took a deep breath. Even though she had been avoiding this for so long, she knew that she would have to face it one, day anyway."Yanny," she said, "Mommy has never done anything wrong. I am innocent. Everything that woman said today was all lies. I have never hurt her."I
"But that's only because you helped me first," replied Serenity. "How can I just stand aside and not help you now?"Still, Serenity worried that as she was now, she might not be of much help to Clara at all, especially when Clara's case was now almost five years old. Even if they managed to find some evidence, it would still be very difficult to investigate what had actually happened.Thinking of this, Serenity was reminded of Jackson again. He was a large part of how she had gotten exonerated. Without his help, she might have to bear the label of a criminal who had caused someone's death for the rest of her life.Jackson…'No!' she reminded herself silently. 'Stop thinking about him! Everything between us has truly ended now!'Meanwhile, back inside the house by the window, Yanny stood on a chair and leaned against the window, staring out at his mother who was pushing the cart on the street."Are you looking at Mommy?" his grandmother, who was standing beside him, asked."Yeah,
Serenity approached a crew member and expressed that she had been assigned to take Lynette's USB drive to her. Only then was she able to smoothly wade through the crowd and get into the lounge area that the film crew had rented from the mall.At the time, a makeup artist was putting on makeup for Lynette, but she had not changed into her costume yet. Even then, she was clad from head to toe in expensive designer clothes, and because Lynette was obsessed with luxury brands, she had chosen to wear the kind of clothes that had huge brand logos on them, as if fearing that others might not notice that she was wearing clothes from famous brands.Apart from that, there were all sorts of rings and bracelets on her fingers and arms, all of which were exorbitantly expensive. All Serenity thought, seeing her cousin like that, was how no one could ever imagine what Lynette actually looked like back when she still lived in the small town."Ah!" Lynette cried in a fake enthusiastic voice. "You'