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Chapter 919

Author: Anastasia Marie
Jackson's eyes suddenly turned stormily gloomy.

Contradictory… She was certainly right. He had indeed been self-contradictory! He was afraid that he would love her too deeply—that the same fate that had befallen his father would befall him. He was afraid that he would discard his dignity, even his life, for love, and all his happiness and sorrows would be completely in her control!

But after they had broken up, he still could not suppress the urge to see her and the desire to keep her by his side no matter what.

Staring at her with burning eyes, his lips parted slightly as he told her, "Do you know that you're the only one in the world who could make me contradict myself like this?!"

Serenity was taken aback. She stared back at him in confusion.

What on earth could those words mean?!

His gaze was a mix of extreme desire and extreme restraint—the perfect embodiment of contradiction!

***

The next day, Serenity had just walked out of her office building after work when she was ap
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