The strange marriage - Chapter 605

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The strange marriage - Chapter 605

Serenity took Zachary’s call.
“I’m not a hot water bottle!”
The first thing that came out of Zachary’s mouth was to correct what Serenity called him.
Serenity chuckled. “I’m feeling cold now, so I thought about you. You’re warmer than a hot water
bottle.”
Zachary’s voice was gruff. “So, you wouldn’t think of me if you weren’t feeling cold?”
Serenity gladly admitted to that fact. “I probably would’ve gone right to bed if I weren’t cold. Oh, I’ll
send you a goodnight gif.”
Zachary was speechless.
“Are
you done with your work? You should carry on if you aren’t. I’m going to bed.”
Serenity was about to hang up the call.
“Serenity.”
Zachary huskily asked, “Are your DNA test results with Mrs. Stone out yet?”
“The results are out. Mrs. Stone is my aunt. We’re related by blood.”
Although his heart sank, Zachary did not show it in his face or tone. “Congratulations on finding your
family.”
“Thank you.”
She only had her sister for fifteen years. Now that an aunt suddenly came into the picture, Serenity
wondered if she was in a dream as it felt surreal.

“That reminds me, Zachary. Your nana moved back to the family home. Callum came tonight to pick her
up.
“I wasn’t home. Ms. Lane told me about it.”
Zachary could not believe how quickly Nana slipped away.
“She goes wherever her heart takes her. I’m used to her coming and going.”
Grandma May owned many properties, and she would often stay a couple of nights here and there. It
was hard to locate the old lady unless she came looking for them.
“Did anything happen today? Did Shawn go to your shop?”
“Jesus. I can feel your jealousy all the way here. Shawn’s a busy man too. He probably won’t meet with
me after I turned him down. You can relax and focus on your work. I promise I won’t cheat on you.”
After a pause, she bantered, “I’ll be waiting for you to come home and eat you up.”
Zachary laughed. “I better fatten myself up, so you can have a delicious meal.”
Serenity remarked after a brief pause, “Zachary, you’ve changed.”
“I changed because you changed me. I changed because of you.”
He did not have a way with words albeit would come through sometimes. Serenity thought
it was cheesy at first, but she would feel all sweet and warm inside when thinking back.
“Serenity.”
“Yeah?”
“Anything else you want to talk about?”
Serenity yawned. “No. I’ll talk to you in my dreams.”
Zachary was lost for words.
“You must be busy. I’ll leave you to it and get some sleep. Tomorrow will be a busy one for me. The term
break starts after tomorrow.”
“Don’t strain yourself.”
“Everything’s worth it when the money comes in. That’s it now. I’m heading to bed, Zachary.
Goodnight.”
Serenity ended the call after saying goodnight.
She had hung up before Zachary could say more. Staring at his phone, Zachary mumbled, ” Serenity,
your attitude makes me feel insecure.”
He got the feeling that she was not in love with him.

Although Serenity often talked about jumping him, the truth of the matter was, she had not given her
heart fully to him.
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Zachary, on the other hand, became more addicted and fell deeper in love with
Serenity.
Ring ring ring…
Zachary’s phone rang again.
He thought it was Serenity, but then he saw the caller ID and it was Duncan.
“Duncan.”
Zachary leaned back on the black swivel chair and asked indifferently, “Why are
you calling me so late at night?”
“There’s something important I need to tell you. Do you know that your wife has
an aunt? It’s Mrs. Stone. It turns out that the sister Mrs. Stone has been looking
for is your mother-in-law.”
Duncan was not as gossipy as Josh, but he loved to watch drama and gloat on
the sidelines.
He just felt that he should relay this news to his best friend.
“Stone Group and York Corporation have always been at odds.
Clive and you will never appear at the same place together. The relationship
between the two of you is completely frozen… I just thought of something.”
Duncan muttered in hindsight, “When you treated Clive to that meal back then,
did you already know that your wife was Mrs.
Stone’s niece? Is that why you tried patching up your relationship with Clive in
advance?”
Zachary was a little embarrassed and angry that his thoughts were read by his
best friend. Fortunately, Duncan was thousands of miles away and did not know
how he was feeling right now.
“I was in a good mood that day, and Clive rarely takes his clients to Wiltspoon
Hotel for a meal, so I bought them lunch. I just wanted them to know that our

Wiltspoon Hotel is worthy of its name.
That’s all.
“I’m not a god. How could I know in advance that my mother-in- law is the sister
who Mrs. Stone has been looking for? I only found out just now when I asked
Serenity.”
That was also true.
However, he had a hunch that Mrs. Stone’s sister was his mother- in-law who
died long ago.
That was why he generously invited Clive and his party to a meal when he met
Clive that day.
“What are you going to do now that you know?”
Duncan asked with concern, “Are you going to reconcile with the Stones?”
“Serenity and Mrs. Stone are aunt and niece. They have no influence on the
decision-making of York Corporation. A great man cannot brook a rival. Between
York Corporation and Stone Group, only one of us will remain standing.”
Duncan paused before adding. “You’re a businessman through and through.
You only talk about profit and never about feelings.”
Zachary said faintly, “In the business world of deceit, feelings will only be used
by the opponent. You’ll be swallowed and everything will go up in smoke.”
That was unless the Stone Group intended to make peace with him.
Only when both sides took a step back would it be possible to ease relations.
“Elisa has been infatuated with you for years. If she finds out about your
relationship with Serenity and with her explosive personality, will your wife be in
trouble?”
Duncan felt that this matter was a concern.
“They’ve become cousins, so maybe she won’t do anything to your wife, but
your wife will definitely feel as if she robbed her cousin’s beloved man. She’ll
kick you away.”
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Zachary paused before saying, “Duncan Lewis, can you speak a little more
tactfully?”
He was overly straightforward.
Duncan laughed. “You know I’ve always been like this. I don’t like to beat
around the bush. Do you think I can talk in circles like Josh?
“Serenity and her sister are strong-natured. If she finds out the truth… I’m
having a headache on your behalf just thinking about it.”
Zachary’s expression darkened as he said, “There’s no need for that. I can
handle it myself.”
“That’s good. I won’t be able to help you even if you ask for my help. You can
call me if it’s a fight, but I’m not good at dealing with matters involving emotions.
“Zachary, you can’t deal with emotional problems either, right?
You’re no better than I am in that regard.”
Zachary was speechless.
Duncan had zero tact. His words were stabbing Zachary like a knife.
“By the way, your sister-in-law was in trouble again. Her former mother-in-law
and sister-in-law came to the office to find her, and they had a fight. I guess it
won’t be easy for your sister-in-law to live the quiet life she wants. Now that the
Brown family knows that Mrs. Stone is your sister-in-law’s aunt, I don’t know
what kind of mishap they’ll be up to in the future.”
Zachary’s voice instantly turned cold. “Serenity didn’t tell me a word about that!”
She did not treat him as her family!
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“Zachary, maybe Serenity didn’t tell you because she didn’t want you to worry?”
Duncan felt that he made a mistake and quickly offered an explanation.
However, Zachary hung up the phone.
Duncan said to himself, “Damn it. What am I supposed to do if the couple gets
into a quarrel because of this?”
Once Zachary cared about a person, he would want the other party to put him

first. In simpler terms, he was overbearing.
His domineering nature would sometimes let people feel like he cared about
them, but other times, it made people feel suffocated as if they could not
breathe.
What was worse was that Zachary would feel like he was in the wrong. For
example, he felt like he fell in love with Serenity, so he was willing to do
everything for her. However, Serenity was independent and would not tell him
everything for him to help her with. Thus, Zachary would feel that Serenity did
not trust him and did not treat him as family.
Duncan called Zachary again, but it went to the mailbox because the number he
dialed was on hold.
“Did he call Serenity in the middle of the night to question her?”
Duncan felt at a loss.
He merely said a few words. How did it cause so much trouble?
Josh was usually the one having such a loose mouth, but he never saw Josh
get into trouble.
Zachary actually called Serenity.
The couple had just ended the call not long ago, so he dared to bet that
Serenity was not yet asleep. Thus, he could not resist calling her.
Serenity was still awake. When she heard the phone ring, she reached out of
the covers for the phone and quickly retrieved her hand back in.
It was cold.
After turning on the heating for a while, she did not like how dry it was, so she
turned it off again. There was no hot water bottle in Zachary’s room, and the
natural hot water bottle that was Zachary himself was on a business trip, so she
had to bundle herself up to stay warm.
She saw that it was Zachary calling again.
She answered the call. “What’s up? I’m going to sleep.”
“What happened today?”

Zachary’s voice was low. Serenity had been getting along with him for some
time and knew that his mood was different when his tone changed.
She instinctively said, “Nothing happened. I told you, I found out that Mrs. Stone
is my aunt. What’s with that tone, Zachary? You sound as if you’re interrogating
me. I didn’t take advantage of your business trip to eat and go shopping with
other men.”
What tone?
“Aren’t you going to tell me about your sister? Even Duncan knows about it, and
you’re not telling me even though I’m asking you about it. Serenity, do you not
regard me as your family? You didn’t even tell me about something this big.”
Serenity was speechless. “My sister and her former mother-in-law have a fight
every once in a while. Is that something big to you? We can handle it ourselves,
so there’s no need to bother you. Besides, you’re away from home on a
business trip. Are you going to fly home and help us fight them even if I were to
tell you?
“Mr. Lewis knows about it because he’s the boss of my sister’s company. Those
two women went for my sister outside her office building, and Mr. Lewis saw it
as he was getting off work. I didn’t tell him deliberately. When I arrived, my sister
and them had finished fighting, and police officers had already arrived. I didn’t
even have the chance to do anything.”
“I told you to tell me when you encounter difficulties! ”
Serenity sat up. ‘Did this man not listen to a single word I said? He’s just laser
pointing at the fact that I didn’t tell him about this matter.’
She said patiently, “Zachary, I also told you that I will handle stuff that I can
handle myself. There’s no need to bother you, and I won’t completely depend on
you. Like I said, even if I’ve told you, you can’t come back to help me anyway.
Why should I tell you just to worry you?
“If you want to escalate the matter to the point of saying that I don’t regard you
as family, then I can’t help it. Either way, can you guarantee that you’ve told me

everything? I don’t even know where your hometown is. Doesn’t that mean you
don’t regard me as your family either?”
Zachary choked.
“Zachary York, you’re a six-foot-tall grown-up man. Can you be a little less
petty? Don’t get angry because of something trivial and bicker over every single
thing with me. I know you’re worried about me, but I’m not the kind of weak
person who needs your help .
“If that is what you want from your wife, then I’m sorry. I can’t do it.”
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After witnessing her sister and Hank getting to know each other, falling in love,
and then ending up in such an ugly divorce, Serenity felt that it was better to rely
on herself than on others.
Even if he was someone she shared a bed with, she could not be completely
dependent on him.
That was because the person who shared her bed might become a person who
shared someone else’s bed at any time.
“Are you calling me narrow-minded?”
Zachary’s voice was low and chilly, like the weather in this cold winter month.
He wanted to know everything about her because he cared about her.
However, she did not take the initiative to tell him, saying that he was narrowminded and that he got
angry over trivial matters.
Was this trivial? Even someone like Duncan knew about it, but Zachary only
found out because Duncan told him.
If Duncan did not tell him and he did not ask, she might have never told him.
He cared about her, but she was not touched. Instead, she felt that it was
useless to tell him because he was not home.
“I do think that you’re short-tempered. You’re always so selfcentered. You get
angry as soon as people don’t do as you want.”
He had a lot of good points, but he also had flaws.

No one was perfect, and Serenity did not ask him to be perfect either. She had a
lot of flaws herself too since they were both normal human beings.
She told him about his shortcomings so he could change. If he did not change,
then they could only go through rounds of friction. In the end, she either had to
learn how to tolerate them or ignore them.
Zachary hung up the phone.
Serenity was stunned. “He hung up on me. Can he get even angrier?”
She threw the phone on the table, feeling a little mad herself, and muttered,
“I’ve made it clear to him. Why is he still angry? Fine, he can be angry if he
wants to. I don’t care.”
Did he want her to tell him about every single thing?
Serenity grumbled, “I told him at the beginning that I’ll handle the stuff that I can
handle by myself instead of bothering him. What about him? Does he tell me
everything as well? Can he guarantee that there’s nothing that he’s hiding from
me?
“His double standards are ridiculous!”
He was so domineering.
His overbearing trait sometimes made her feel as sweet as honey, but other
times, it gave her a feeling of being so tightly restrained by him that it was
difficult for her to even catch her breath.
There was just a sense of suffocation.
Her sleepiness completely vanished because of the call from Zachary.
She picked up the phone again and sent a message to him.
However, he did not reply to her.
“Again! There he goes again! ”
Serenity threw the phone back to the foot of the bed.
What a petty man.
Every time their communication fell through, he would act like this. He stopped
replying to messages she sent.

‘If he doesn’t want to reply, then fine!
‘1 don’t care!’
Serenity picked up the phone and placed it on the nightstand. She lay down and
got ready to be taken away by the sandman.
However, she was still vexed. She tossed and turned with slumberland far from
reach.
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A few minutes later, Serenity sat up from the bed and pondered. She then slid out of bed, began to pack
her household goods, and took them back to her room.
She would not sleep in his bed anymore.
She angrily moved back to her room to sleep.
Zachary was likewise still sulking.
He received the message from Serenity and read it, but he did not reply. Instead, he deleted it instantly.
He only had one thought in his mind, and that was how Serenity accused him of being. narrow-minded
and did not treat him as a family.
Putting the phone on the desk, Zachary got up and paced back and forth in the office, incredibly
annoyed.
In the end, he went and made himself a cup of coffee.
After drinking the coffee, he forced himself to calm down and got back to work.
He intended to work through the night.
Serenity was so angry that she tossed and turned, failing to fall asleep, but after an hour or ‘so, she
stopped being angry. It was not the first time he acted like this. If she got mad at him every time, her life
span would probably shorten. It was not worth it.
Thus, she stopped being angry and went away with the sandman.
‘He can be mad if he wants to!
‘That petty man is so self-centered. He doesn’t tell me everything about himself, but he wants me to tell
him everything that happens in my life.
‘He’s not even at home. What, is he going to fly back if I tell him?”

In fact, Serenity did not do anything regarding that matter either. Her aunt’s introduction already scared
away the Brown family’s mother and daughter. The person who made the decision was Liberty.
Liberty chose to reconcile because of Sonny.
It was her sister’s decision, so Serenity respected it.
That man even laser-pointed on how Duncan knew about it but he was kept in the dark
instead.
Duncan was Liberty’s boss. Was it not normal for him to know about something that happened in front
of his company?
It was not like she deliberately told Duncan about it.
Serenity felt that Zachary was being ridiculous in his jealousy.
It was rather late into the night when she fell asleep. Zachary, who was away on a business trip, drank a
total of two cups of coffee which lasted him until dawn.
The next day, he continued to work.
In Josh’s words, every time Zachary got angry, he threw himself into his work. His work efficiency was
particularly high, so the people following him could not keep up and had to work overtime. It was fine if
it was one or two days but when they worked overtime till late every day, everyone in the company
started to complain.
Serenity got up late because she slept late.
Mrs. Lane had done most of the morning routine from making breakfast and feeding the pets to
watering the plants and hanging out on the swing chair before Serenity got up.
“Good morning, Ms. Hunt.”
Serenity yawned. Maybe due to the poor sleep quality, she was having a headache and sore eyes. She
was still having these ailments despite having slept enough hours, so she guessed it must have been
because she was furious when she fell asleep.
“Good morning, Mrs. Lane.”
Serenity did not tell Mrs. Lane about herself not feeling well.
Looking at the time, she cried in a low voice, “It’s eight o’clock!”
She did not know if her sister was going to work. She had to go over to pick Sonny up.