Chapter 80

When she said "Jackson Valor", his body stiffened, almost imperceptibly.

"Do you hate Jackson Valor?" he asked softly.

She sighed a little. "Maybe. Everyone in Solaria knows who he is. The person who died in the car accident was Jackson Valor's fiancée, Mira Hall, so naturally, I wouldn't get off easy. The more people wanted to please him, the more I suffered."

After a pause, she said almost self-deprecatingly, "Sometimes, I do wonder – if the person who died in the car accident wasn't Mira Hall, would I have won the case? Maybe I wouldn't have to go to prison for three years and go through all that."

She was not resentful or angry, but her self-deprecation made him feel even more guilty.

He was probably responsible for half the pain she suffered.

He crouched down in front of her. Through his heavy bangs, his eyes stared at her fixedly. "If I had known that you would suffer so much, I would have protected you three years ago."

He was not saying that because of the game. It came