Lynette was rendered speechless. Embarrassment was written all over her face. Lucas's words left her clueless on how to react.

"I… But I was…"

"Lynette," Lucas interrupted, "I owe you for saving my life, so I'll gladly help you and give you a better life, but Serenity is the woman I love, so if she needs my help to improve her circumstances, nothing would make me happier than to help her!"

Lynette's heart almost burst with a wave of jealousy! What exactly was so special about Serenity, anyway?! How could someone like her deserve such unflinching love from Lucas?!

"But she doesn't love you at all!" Lynette reminded Lucas, unwilling to let it go. "Don't you mind it at all?! She said it herself in the recording!"

The next moment, Lynette felt suffocated, and a gust of cold air rushed up from her feet when those shrewd eyes of his stared dead straight into hers.

"Lynette," he said coldly, "I hope that you will never play this kind of trick on me again, understood?"

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