Chapter 400


    Chapter 400


    Serenity couldn’t bring herself to refuse, and by the time she came to her senses, she was already


    lying in bed with Jackson.


    She sighed and thought, ‘So what if we’re sleeping together? Whatever. It’s not like we’ve never done


    this before.”


    But lying in bed now, she couldn’t fall asleep because he was beside her. So Serenity decided to bring


    up a topic. “Why do you still call me ‘Sis‘?”


    “Don’t you like it when I call you that?” he asked.


    She hesitated for a moment. “It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that… um, it feels a bit weird to be called


    that now that we’re dating.”


    If someone who didn’t know them heard him call her that, they would probably think she was his birth


    sister. But in a way, she had gotten used to the term because he had been calling her that from the


    beginning.


    “What if I call you by name in front of others?” he asked. “And I’ll call you “Sis‘ when it’s just the two of


    us.”


    “You… seem to really like calling me “Sis‘? Serenity asked.


    “Yeah,” Jackson admitted. “Because it’s the first time someone asked me to call them that.”


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    She suddenly felt embarrassed.


    “When I call you that, it’s like we have an unbreakable bond,” he said.


    She looked puzzled, not understanding what he meant by that, but he didn’t seem inclined to exin


    further and simply said, “Okay, let’s sleep.”


    She nodded in response and closed her eyes, but she had no intention of turning off the bedsidemp.


    He nced at themp, and aplex look crossed his face. When they were in the rented house,


    she used to sleep with the light on because turning it off would make her scared and remind her of


    unpleasant things.


    He was well aware that the unpleasant things she referred to must have been some of her experiences


    in prison. Butter on, there was a period when she could sleep with the lights off.


    At that time, she had said, “It’s because I have you, Jack. With you by my side, I’m not as scared.”


    But now, she had returned to the habit of sleeping with the lights on Was it because his identity had


    been exposed, and it had caused her fear to return? Did he have to wait for a time when she could


    sleep with the lights off to feel epted by her again


    truly?


    Although they were dating now, and she said she liked him, he was uncertain where he was ced in


    her heart. Perhaps he was Jess impurtant to her than her good friend Lisa The thought filled him with a


    tinge of jealousy.


    “Sis, when will I be your most important person?” His gentle voice was subdued as the sound


    drifted around the room, and he gazed at her face silently under the dim light.


    Every time be called her ‘Sis,‘ it felt like they were truly family and inseparable. The term provided an


    extrayer of security. He feared one day, if she were no longer “Sis” to him, then any rtionship


    between them would truly cease to exist.


    He didn’t care if she saw him as a lover or a family member. He wanted to be someone she couldn’t let


    go of because he knew what it felt like to be abandoned.


    Back then, his birth mother had abandonedm.


    This time, he wouldn’t let Serenity abandon him.