The strange marriage - Chapter 485

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The strange marriage - Chapter 485

After comforting Serenity, Grandma May yawned gracefully. She put down the TV remote control, got
up, and said to the young couple, “I‘ll head in to rest up. I‘m old and can‘t stay up late.”
She took a few steps and stopped before turning around to ask Serenity, “Seren, should I bring your
pillow out?”
Serenity smiled and said, “No need. There are pillows in the guest room for me.”
Grandma May glanced at her grandson twice, but did not say anything. She proceeded into Serenity‘s
room.
By the time Serenity went in to take a shower, the old lady was already snoring loudly.
Serenity was speechless.
Ten minutes later.
She came out of the room in her pajamas. Just after closing the door, she saw her man in his robe,
leaning against the door of his room with his arms across his chest.
“Not sleeping yet? You have to work tomorrow.”
Serenity casually said to him, pretending to not remember teasing him earlier. She walked past him
toward the guest room.
However, when she pushed open the door to the guest room, she was dumbfounded.
The bedsheet was gone.
The quilt was gone.
The pillow was also gone.
She had clearly bought a set of bedding products. Where did they go?
Were they stolen?

That did not seem right, a thief would not just steal bedding.
She turned her head to look at the proud man who was still standing against the door. He must have
taken advantage of the time she was in the shower to take away all the bedding in the guest room.
Zachary kept silent and simply looked at her.
Serenity turned around and walked back toward him. She paused in front of him and then walked into
his room.
While entering, she said, “I remember a certain someone mentioned that he’d keep the door
of the room open for me to search for the agreement.”
Zachary waited for her to enter the room before following her. He closed the door behind him and said
calmly, “Be my guest. If you can‘t find it, then don‘t bring up the agreement again in the future, because
it doesn‘t exist.”
Apart from the safe that had not been open yet, she had already scoured every inch of the
room
Serenity pretended to casually rummage through the room before heading over to his safe and patted
it. “Open it and let me see. You must have hidden it here.”
Zachary walked over and unlocked it.
Serenity looked at him before opening the safe. There was only one thing inside–a small document. It
was the marriage license of the two of them.
There was nothing else.
She removed the marriage license before inspecting the safe. There really was nothing left.
“There‘s not even a penny here. What did you buy a safe for?”
Zachary said as a matter of fact, “To keep our marriage license.”
“If you‘d like to put money inside, I‘ll go to the bank tomorrow after work to get some cash and bring it
back to place it in the safe. You can use it whenever you want to.”
“There‘s still money in the household expenses card you gave me.”
Serenity flipped over the marriage license to look at their wedding photo, which appeared very
unnatural
“Look at your face back then. You‘re like an iceberg. I was worried I‘d freeze and turn into an ice
sculpture after taking the wedding photos.”
Zachary sat down beside her and took a look at the photo on the license. “You weren‘t particularly
enthusiastic either. The photographer kept telling you to lean closer, but you were frozen stiff. You
didn‘t budge an inch.”
Serenity was speechless.

It was the pot calling the kettle black
“Seren, don‘t mention the agreement again. It‘s gone. Even if it wasn’t gone, I would have probably
flushed it down the drain already.”
Serenity looked at him and dove into the deep abyss of pondering what he could mean
He was going back on his word, that was what he meant. He took advantage of that night when
She was a little drunk to destroy her copy of the agreement. He was afraid she would wake up and look
for it, so he destroyed his own copy as well.
When she remembered to ask him, he shamelessly denied it and said that she had been worrying too
much lately and was hallucinating.
He was clearly saving himself from shooting himself in the foot again. Serenity mulled over his words but
did not poke at his lies.
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Chapter 486

Serenity climbed into his bed and lay down comfortably, saying, “I‘ve only slept in your bed once, but I
feel like it‘s particularly warm. Maybe it‘s my imagination.”
She pulled the quilt up to cover herself and smiled. “Good night, Zachary.”
Zachary‘s dark eyes flashed. He stared at her for a long time before suddenly lifting the quilt off her and
was about to pin her down.
However, she sat up and removed herself from the bed at once. She put on her slippers and left.
“Serenity.”
Zachary reached out to pull her back.
“I, uh–I need to use the bathroom.”
Aunt Flo might have come to ruin the atmosphere.
The man did not understand. “There‘s a bathroom in my room.”
“Your bathroom doesn‘t have what I need. I‘ll come back to sleep in your bed after I use the bathroom,
but I won‘t be able to sleep with you for a while.”
Serenity pinched his face regretfully. “Fatten up a little.”
No matter how slow Zachary was, he finally understood and slowly let go of his hand, letting her return
to her room.
A while later, Serenity re–entered his room. Zachary had his back to her while hugging a pillow with both
arms, seemingly sulking.
Serenity hesitated and thought, ‘Should I sleep in a different room?
Maybe I should. I’ll go back and sleep with Nana for the night.‘

She turned around to leave.
“You‘re not even going to let me hold you?”
Huh?
Serenity stopped in her tracks and turned to look at the man who was sulking
“I‘m afraid you‘ll have a hard time if you hold me.”
“It‘s better than sleeping alone.”
Since he was not afraid of being tormented, she did not hold back
Serenity then cheerfully returned to Zachary‘s side, lifting the quilt while saying, “C‘mon,
don‘t give me that look. You look like a moping kid now.”
“I‘m a man.”
“Fine, a moping man.”
Zachary suddenly reached out and pinned her down. He leaned in and kissed her fiercely before he felt
better.
Embracing his wife, he asked in a low and husky voice, “How many days?”
“Seven plus three.”
“That long?”
“I cherish my body. If you don‘t want to wait, we‘ll continue to sleep in separate rooms.”
It was not appropriate to do anything right after Aunt Flo left.
Her body was hers. She would not harm her body for the sake of his pleasure.
Zachary held her tightly. “Don‘t make it sound like I‘m a beast. Go to sleep. You have to work
tomorrow.”
He pressed a gentle kiss on her forehead. “Good night.”
“Good night.”
Serenity adjusted her sleeping position and soon fell asleep peacefully.
Meanwhile, in the Stone family‘s villa.
Audrey sat on the bed, holding an old yellow photo she had kept for decades. As she looked at her sister
in the photo and thought that the latter might no longer be alive, her eyes started to redden again.
A large hand reached out and took the photo from her hands.
“You‘ve been staring at it all day. You refuse to eat and drink, and not even speak. Are you trying to
worry me to death?”

Darrell was feeling distressed as he handed a tissue to his wife. “It‘s yet to be determined, but you‘re
already crying. Maybe it‘s not true this time either.”
The DNA test was not carried out yet, so it was still up in the air if Hunt sisters were truly his sister-in-
law‘s daughters.
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Audrey took the tissue handed to her by her husband and wiped her tears.
She then finally said, “Sonny does look somewhat similar to my sister. His mother, Liberty, would
resemble my sister more if she was a little thinner.
“When Elisa first met Serenity, she said she had a feeling of wanting to be close to the latter. I had that
feeling too when I met Liberty and her son.
“I think it‘s because of our blood relation.
“Darrell, maybe this time, I have really found my sister…”
Audrey’s tears slipped down again when she thought about the fact that her sister was long gone.
“But she‘s no longer here. She died fifteen years ago. It‘s no wonder I couldn‘t find her despite searching
for so long. How could I find her when she‘s no longer in this world?”
Darrell comforted her. “It‘s just a feeling. Sometimes, fate acts in mysterious ways. Don’t cry yet and
wait for the DNA test.”
If his sister–in–law whom he had never met was dead, Darrell would feel shaken too.
When he first met his wife, she was still just an employee of Stone Group, but she had already
started searching for her sister.
Decades passed but she never gave up. She also let her children take over and help her continue the
search.
Countless years of perseverance and faith suddenly turned into nothingness. It was normal for his wife
to find it difficult to accept.
“My intuition tells me that Liberty and Serenity are my sister‘s daughters. My sister isn‘t here anymore,
and her daughters are still living such a hard life… Fortunately, they‘re strong like I was.”
Back then, she was only eight years old and could not raise her sister.
The Hunt sisters had it slightly better. At least they got their parents‘ life insurance payouts. Although
their horrid relatives took most of them, the town council fortunately got two hundred thousand for the
sisters. Liberty was also fifteen years old that year and was able to somewhat take the burden of raising
her sister.
Elisa said that Serenity treated her sister exceptionally well.

Audrey thought, “The two sisters rely on each other and after going through so many storms and seeing
the fickleness of human nature, Liberty was both a sister and a mother to Serenity. Serenity would be an
ingrate if she wasn’t good to her sister.’
“Let‘s do the DNA test first.”
Audrey wiped her tears again and nodded, “T‘ll visit Serenity tomorrow and ask for a DNA test with her.”
She did not choose to do it with Liberty because the latter had to take care of Sonny.
She was aware about the sisters‘ situation through her daughter. At present, Liberty was in a low period
of her life, and she was depending on her younger sister, so Audrey would only ask Serenity to
cooperate with her for a DNA test.
“Let Elisa go with you tomorrow. She has a good relationship with Serenity.”
Darrell recalled how his daughter often met Serenity after getting acquainted with her, regardless of her
status. He was also pleased with his daughter‘s change of nature, but he never thought that their blood
relation played a role.
“All right.”
“Keep this matter under wraps for now, lest other people tamper with the results.”
Darrell reminded his wife.
Their family was the second most powerful family in Wiltspoon after the Yorks.
Many people faked their identities to try and establish connections with the Stone family because they
knew that Audrey had always been looking for her sister.
The Hunt sisters had a simple background now, but they were surrounded by too many outrageous
people. Who knew if they would do anything to tamper with the results or stop the sisters from
acknowledging their relationship with Audrey?
Case in point, the Hunt family.
They not only took away the six hundred thousand payout, but also seized the properties and lands
belonging to Serenity‘s family. Then, they drove the sisters away and forbade them from returning to
their hometown to visit their parents‘ graves. Worse still, they even moved the graves without informing
the sisters.
Now, the Hunt sisters did not know where their parents’ graves were. They could not even pay their
respects.
It was no wonder Serenity mercilessly refused when the family repeatedly went to beg for
reconciliation.
The hate ran too deep
They had not experienced the suffering of the Hunt sisters, so they could use moral blackmail.
I know.”

Audrey said, “I’m not worried about them tampering with the results. I‘m just afraid that if we make a
statement and the test turns out negative, others will use it as an excuse to attack Serenity.”
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Darrell let out a hum and comforted his wife. “Don‘t think too much about it. We‘ll know whether it‘s
true or false in a few days. Go to sleep first, or shall I go downstairs to make you some food? You can
sleep after having a bite.”
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“I have no appetite.”
“You haven‘t eaten or drank anything all day. Do you know how worried I am about you? Your children
are worried too. Even Anthony came back after hearing that you were feeling down.”
They had three children. Their eldest was mature and steady, their second-born was never at home, and
their youngest was the apple of their eye, who used to hover around Zachary all day in the past and only
revert to her normal self a few days ago.
“Think of it as me going on a diet.”
Audrey then lay down on the bed. “I‘m going to sleep.”
Darrell was helpless when it came to Audrey.
She did not want to eat, and he could not coax her into it.
Her temper had always been very stubborn, and their daughter took after her.
She loved Zachary for many years and refused to give up no matter how many people persuaded her to.
She only turned around after hitting a dead end.
The night passed without a word.
The next day, it was drizzling again, turning the already cool morning into a chill.
Zachary woke up before Serenity.
The woman beside him got cold in the second half of the night and burrowed into his arms unawares.
She actually treated him as a warmer.
He lowered his head and looked at the alluring woman who was still curled up against him. Zachary‘s
eyes softened. Opening his eyes and seeing his favorite woman by his side turned out to be such a
blissful feeling.
After staring at Serenity for a while, he gently pulled away and got out of bed for fear of waking her up.
He walked to the window, pulled open the curtains, and looked at the sky outside.
The sky was overcast because of the rain.
It was not suitable for him to go out for his morning run.

Alter standing there for a moment, he turned around and walked away.
Ten minutes later, he came out of the room and went straight into the kitchen before leaving it in less
than a minute later.
He walked to the balcony to call Jim. When Jim answered, he ordered in a low voice, “Go over to the
hotel and pack three servings of breakfast for me.”
“Yes, sir,” Jim answered respectfully and immediately set off once Zachary hung up the phone.
Fortunately, Zachary chose to stay at Brynfield, which was not far from the hotel and the office.
The round trip took half an hour, and Jim knocked on Zachary‘s door bringing with him the three
breakfasts he had packed.
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While knocking, he suddenly had a thought. ‘What if the person who came to open the door is Missus?
How am I supposed to explain myself then?
‘In her eyes, I‘m just a professional chauffeur. I can‘t say that I‘m also a part–time deliveryman now, can
I?‘
The door opened.
Jim sighed in relief when he saw Zachary.
There was no need for him to work part-time as a deliveryman now.
He handed the breakfasts to Zachary.
“Don‘t park the car downstairs anymore,” Zachary reminded him in a low voice.
Jim was stunned and asked, “Does Missus suspect something?”
Zachary glanced at him, and he zipped it. He would do whatever Zachary told him to do with no
questions asked.
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Zachary took the breakfast that Jim packed and placed them on the dining table. He had second
thoughts and entered the kitchen again.
He was brewing hot cocoa for Serenity.
“I thought you made the breakfast yourself, but it turned out to be takeouts.”
A teasing voice came through and Zachary did not even need to look back to know that it was his nana,
neither did he say anything.
“What are you making? It smells sweet and chocolatey.”
Grandma May walked into the kitchen, uncovered the saucepan, and took a look.
“I thought there was some progress.”

The old woman muttered and glanced at her grandson in disdain before turning to leave.
Zachary‘s handsome face tensed. He could not help but defend himself, “I tried very hard.”
There was originally a chance last night, but God played a trick on him.
“The heart. You have to go after the heart first. Didn‘t you see that all of Serenity‘s ten fingers are still
empty?”
Zachary was speechless.
He tried very hard to go after her heart.
He bought two wedding bands long ago, and he even wore his ring several times. However, it was just to
make Elisa give up on him.
Serenity‘s ring was still with him since he had not given it to her.
“I have a pair of diamond rings that your grandfather bought when he was alive. We were supposed to
wear it as a couple, but your grandfather bought too many diamond rings. I can‘t wear all of them, so I
left some of them in the jewelry vault.
“They‘ll just take up space if I leave them there, so I‘ll give them to you. Do as you please with thern.”
Grandma May‘s jewelry vault was full of treasures. The diamond ring that she always wore was her
wedding ring. Although her husband gave her many more diamond rings, she still liked to wear the one
she had when she got married.
“Thanks, Nana.”
Zachary was well aware that the jewelry in his grandmother‘s vault were better than those in the
jewelry stores, with many being antique treasures.
Every husband and wife from his parents’ generation would receive a pair of diamond rings from Nana.
Now, it was the grandchildren’s turn. He was the first to receive a diamond ring from his
grandmother
He hoped that he could use the diamond ring presented to him by his grandmother to ensnare Serenity
for the rest of her life.
“Learn how to say sweet words. Everyone likes hearing nice words. Don’t keep wearing that tense face.
It‘ll make Serenity think that she owes you a fortune.”
Zachary was speechless.
“I‘m already old, but I still have to worry about your marriage. You‘ll be letting me down if you don‘t
make me a great–grandmother by next year.
“Even your grandfather had a headache when it came to your marriage when he was still alive.”
Zachary was exasperated and thought, ‘Am I that bad?‘

“It‘s quite cold today.”
Grandma May walked to the balcony and shivered from the cold wind. She hurriedly retreated inside. “It
finally feels like winter in Wiltspoon.”
Zachary did not speak.
When the hot cocoa was ready, he came out of the kitchen and went into his room.
Serenity had just woken up, but she was still lying in bed with a blank expression.
A large and slightly cold hand felt her face, pinching it softly, and in his low voice, Zachary said, “Why are
you spacing out?”
Serenity grabbed his hand and pinched the back of it harshly.
“Serenity!”
He let out a low shout.
She pinched him with all her might.
“Does it hurt?”
“Do you think I’m an iron wall who can’t feel pain?”
“No, I thought I was dreaming, so I pinched you. Now I believe that this is reality after hearing your cry
of pain. I slept in your bed again last night.”
Zachary was speechless.
‘If she suspected that she was dreaming, why didn‘t she pinch herself instead?
She‘ll only know she’s not dreaming if she herself feels the pain. Why did she pinch me then, and so
hard at that?‘
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The eldest son of the York family had never suffered from such a painful pinch in his life.
It hurt!
“Is Nana up?” Serenity asked as she turned over to get out of bed.
She wanted to slip back into her room before Grandma May woke up.
“She‘s up.”
“So early?”
Serenity, who was ready to run, stopped in her tracks. “Nana will see me if I go out like this.”
“We‘re husband and wife.”
Zachary did not like her sneaking around.

Serenity grinned. “You‘re right, we‘re husband and wife. There‘s nothing to hide. Nana will only be
happy if she sees us like this. She knows that we‘ve been sleeping in separate rooms since we got
married and has always urged me to do all sorts of things to you.”
Zachary looked at her without a word.
He was also feeling utterly helpless with his nana.
Of course, he was mostly grateful now. If not for her nagging, he would not have married Serenity.
“I‘m going back to my room to change. What do you want to eat today? I‘ll cook for you.”
“I went and got takeout for breakfast, so there’s no need to cook.”
Serenity took a double take at him and left the room.
Zachary’s expression darkened. What did those glances mean?
Was it strange that he got takeouts for her? Would this make the sun rise from the west?
“Morning, Nana.”
Serenity went out and greeted the old lady as if nothing had happened.
“Morning, Serenity.”
Grandma May looked at her lovingly. “You must be hungry. Zack got up early and braved the cold wind
and rain to Wiltspoon Hotel and packed breakfast home. He said that you like the food there.”
Serenity’s heart warmed as she listened. She felt like she was being cherished.
I’m not picky. He could’ve just packed any breakfast from a nearby restaurant.”
Grandma May laughed. “You‘ll get tired of eating those every day. It‘s good to try something different
occasionally. It‘s cold today, so go change your clothes and put on a jacket.”
Serenity hummed and pretended to be calm as she went back to her room. Once the door was
closed, she could not help but laugh.
Ring ring ring…
The phone rang
Serenity took out her phone, thinking it was her sister calling, but it turned out to be her best friend,
Jasmine.
“Jasmine, I‘ll be there soon.”
Serenity thought Jasmine was urging her to go help out in the store because it was too busy.
“Seren, I haven‘t gone to the store today. I have a cold. I was dizzy when I woke up in the morning, so I
took my temperature and found out that I‘m running a high fever. I‘ll have to
go to the hospital later. I‘m just giving you a heads–up that you‘ll have to watch the store today.”

“How did you catch a cold? Did you dress for fashion instead of warmth? It‘s raining today and it feels
like winter. Wear a few more layers. The store belongs to us, so it‘s only natural for me to watch it.
Please don‘t stand on ceremony with me.
“Quickly get yourself to the hospital. Don‘t drive and ask your brother to send you there.”
Jasmine hummed in response. “My mom will take me to the hospital, so I won‘t bother my brother. I‘ll
go see the doctor first.”
“Okay, take care.”
“You too. Wear more layers.”
After exhorting each other, Jasmine hung up first.
She could not go to the store today, so Serenity could not dally as usual. She changed her clothes as fast
as she could and washed up.
Then, she took the purse she always carried and went out.
“Nana and Zachary, I‘ll go to the store first. I‘ll bring breakfast there to eat.”
In one swift series of motions, she walked to the table, picked up her portion of breakfast, stuffed it into
her bag, and left.
“Wait, Serenity.” Zachary called out to her.