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Chapter 143
“I can’t refuse, can I?” she asked.
His eyes flickered. The smile on his face faded a little. He slowly straightened up and looked down at
her. “No, you can refuse, I can give you the right to refuse, but…”
After a pause, he said with a strange smile, “Are you really going to refuse?”
Serenity felt as if the air around her froze. If she agreed to his proposal, she would indeed gain a lot. It
would change her destiny.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtIf it was any other person saying those things to her, maybe she would actually agree.
But Jackson Valor… She feared this man. He had never harmed her directly, but one word from him
was enough to make her life in prison hell.
And even before that, not a single lawyer dared to take her case because the victim who was killed in
the car accident was Jackson Valor’s fiancée.
She was also unsure if he had anything to do with all the false evidence against her, as well as the
witnesses who all testified that she was drunk driving
The man’s shadow loomed over her like a nightmare the whole time. After learning his true identity.
whenever he moved close to her, her body would go stiff.
Whenever he initiated physical contact with her, she would shiver.
How could she possibly stay by his side?!
She took a deep breath to suppress her fear and said, “Yes, I’d like to refuse.”
His face sank and his eyes turned cold. “Are you sure you want to refuse?”
“Yes,” she answered.
He suddenly laughed. “Who would have thought that I, Jackson Valor, would get rejected by a woman?
Serenity, think about it. Without my protection, what will happen to you? Even if the Shaws and the
Halls stop messing with you, are you gonna be a sanitation worker for the rest of your life?”
She bit her lip and said, “That’s none of your concern.”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHis lips almost pursed into a straight line. The flames of anger started burning inside him. He had never
gone to such lengths for a woman before, yet she was completely ungrateful and was hell bent on
getting away from him.
How long had it been since he last got so mad at someone? He was so mad that he wanted to strangle
her, but he knew that he could not bear losing her.
He could not bear losing her?!
-He felt incredulous that someone could actually make him feel this way.
He left without saying another word. After he left, Serenity’s tense body finally relaxed.
When the doctor came to perform the daily routine checkup, he informed Serenity that she had fully
recovered. Her blood test result showed that there was no more residual drug left in her body. “Then,
can I be discharged from the hospital?” asked Serenity.
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