Her body became even stiffer. She looked away almost subconsciously, not wanting him to see the look in her eyes.

"Did it ever cross your mind that it's exactly because I'm Jackson Valor that I could make your ex-classmate who insulted you get on her knees to apologize to you? From now on, you no longer have to care about what other people think. I can make anyone who looks down on you bow down to you," he said calmly.

"So? They would bow down to me because of you, not because of me," she said.

"What's wrong with that? You can borrow my power, what do you think?” He leaned back lazily on the chair and asked her casually, as if he was discussing something very ordinary.

Serenity looked at him in confusion. She went to beg him the other day and was met with his refusal, so she thought he was done with her. She thought they would go their separate ways from then on.

After all, how could a proud man like him take it well when he gets rejected by a woman?

But to her surprise, he sudde