"Okay," she replied, gently closing her eyes to savor the gentle massaging of his fingers.

"Still..." she murmured. "It looked like Lucas really cared about that woman, Jack."

In the past, she used to think that Lucas was a playboy, but his persistence in his search for the woman in his memories truly surprised her. It sounded like the woman he was looking for was a little girl he had met when he was a boy himself. In that case, how long must he have been searching for her? Ten years? Twenty years?

The kind of determination it took for someone to keep looking for a person was really rare to see.

"He must've been looking for her for a long time," Serenity commented. "Do you think he'll find her one day?"

"What do you think?" he threw the question back at her. "Do you want him to find that person?"

"I hope he will," she responded. "That way, he'd never mistake me for that person again."

With her eyes closed, she did not see Jackson's eyes, which were hazy with deep thoughts at th