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Chapter 271
Her nose topled. The tears that had only just stopped flowing moments ago began to gush out again.
“If you really want to cry,” he said, his fingertip caressing gently against her eye, ‘then just let it all out,
Sis
Him calling her ‘Sis‘ was like a key that unlocked all the pain and misery that had been suppressed and
sealed up all this time. Unable to restrain her emotions any longer, she yelped and finally cried her
heart out.
How long had been since she last cried her heart out like this? How long had it been since she had to
resign herself to the fact that no matter how loudly she cried, no matter how many tears she shed, it
would all be useless because she could rely on no one else but herself because her tears were
useless?
Yet the moment she heard him call her ‘Sis‘, she thought of her mother, she thought of the baby in her
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtmother’s womb who would have been her little brother, but who never even had the chance to call her
‘Sts‘.
If her mother and little brother had never left this world back then, would she feel less alone now?
Would she actually have a real family who loved her?
Serenity’s impassioned cry startled Jackson. If it hurt him to watch her bite her lips and cry silently, then
the sight of her crying bitterly as she did now made him feel completely and utterly at a loss of what to
do.
His whole body stiffened as her teardrops poured out uncrasingly, almost as if all the blood in his
vessels had congealed and all the nerves in his body were frozen
He had never felt so helpless before. Even when his mother had dumped his father and afterward
when his father had frozen. to death in the snow, all he had felt was hopelessness and despair–he had
not felt weak or powerless at all.
Yet at this moment, when facing Serenity who was crying her heart out, he felt as if he was frozen in ice
and burned in fire at the same time. He wanted nothing more than for her to stop suffering, yet his
whole body was as stiff as a stone, and he simply did not know how to react.
Just then, she suddenly threw herself into his arms and buried her face against his chest while still
fervently crying. Her tears soaked into the fabric on his chest, and it felt ke her tears were absorbed
into his body and then moved into his bloodstream before flowing into his heart.
After a long while, Jackson finally raised his stiff arms and cautiously wrapped them around Serenity.
If she had been so depressed and in despair, then she could just let it all out, but… she must only let it
all out in front of him. He would never let her show her weak side and cry in front of anyone else.
d stronger.
As time went by, his possessiveness over her only grew stronger and s
When they reached Valor Residence, the driver respectfully got out of the car, but Jackson still
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmremained inside and stayed in the same position with Serenity in his arms, letting her cry as much as
she wanted.
He was not sure how much time went by when her crying finally subsided. He looked down, only to see
that she had cried. herself to sleep Her face was drenched in tears, and her eyes were red and swallen
from all the crying. All her ten fingers were wrapped in white gauze. The sight of her looking like this
almost made his heart burst with sympathy.
Suddenly, the sound of a phone ringing bruke the silence. It was the phone in Serenity’s pocket,
Jackson picked it up and glanced at the caller IDon the screen, which told him that it was Lisa Quest
calling.
He frowned slightly and then pressed the answer button.
“Hello?” Lisa’s voice spoke up at the other end of the line. “Serenity? Are you there? Why aren’t you
home today? Are you working overtime?”
“She’s not staying there right now,” Jackson sald in a lushed voice as he was afraid that he might wake
Serenity up. “She’s already asleep, so if you’ve got anything to say to her, just call her tomorrow
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