Chapter 282

He stared deep into her eyes. "Does it matter if I believe you or not?"

She was stunned, and then she smiled to herself. Yeah, whether he believed her or not had nothing to do with her. Why was she so nervous when he looked at her just now?

"I'm going back to my room," said Serenity. She tried to walk past Jackson to get to the stairs.

But she only managed to take two steps before he grabbed her arm. The next moment, she was pulled into his embrace.

"I believe that you're innocent." He bent down and said next to her ear, "But do you really think you can find out anything investigating on your own like this? Three years have already passed. Have you ever thought that maybe the truth you wanted to uncover never existed in the first place?"

Serenity's bright almond-shaped eyes looked back at Jackson. She smiled gently and said, "Rich and powerful people like you think that I can't possibly overturn the case with my own power, but a common folk like me still believes that one day, I c