Love My Friends with Benefits
Chapter 23: Made My Stomach Roil
I could hear my voice trembling.
Was there someone else other than me in here?!
With a click, the lights were turned on.
The whole room suddenly lit up, almost blinding me. I held up a hand to cover my eyes and saw a tall figure through the slits between my fingers.
It was Leonard.
My heart suddenly sank.
Leonard walked over to me, still dressed in his wedding tuxedo. A handkerchief was neatly tucked into his chest pocket.
He walked over and appraised me.
I felt like I had been stripped naked. I backed away on the bed.
Leonard stopped by the bedside and asked coldly, "Why'd you stop laughing?" He paused, his voice turning even frostier. "You're scared."
It was an affirmative sentence, not a question.
I gulped and tried my best to look as threatening as I could. "Of course. How could I not be, with you suddenly coming over here for no reason, Mr. Nell? In fact..." I dragged my sentence out. "I've never given you the key to my home, have I? How'd you get in here?"
Leonard didn't speak. He merely looked at me pointedly with his arms crossed over his chest.
His gaze seemed to pierce straight into my heart through my eyes.
I was flustered by his gaze, but I refused to give in to him. "Mr. Nell, please leave now!"
"Leave?"
He laughed in an ambiguous manner, and it made a chill run down my spine.
I reached for my phone and pretended to make a call. "If you don't, I'm going to call the police!"
Leonard nodded leisurely. "Go ahead, then."
I was stunned as I held my phone.
"When they come, I can just tell them that we're having a lovers' quarrel." Leonard bent down and placed his arms on both sides of my body while looking into my eyes. "Think about it, Queena... Is there a single inch of your body that I don't know?"
reddened with rage. "How shameless can you
answered in a lukewarm tone, "However shameless I
...
only remain
tell me
tip of his nose a hair's breadth away from
still hung
how to answer
to mock his narcissism. The words were on the tip of my tongue,
deepest crevices of my
a while, then smirked. "Looks like you're
you kidding me?!" Stung, I denied his words vehemently. "Who do you
over. "Then why'd you ruin
dig myself a hole with his eyes
good. It's not like you're unaware of how Phoebe really is... I was doing you a favour by helping you escape from her clutches! You wouldn't want to be a victim of her adulterous ways,
more jumbled my words became. In the end, I didn't
Leonard did not speak.
silence so
"Very well."
guess I should thank you, then, Queena. Thank you
was obvious that he
reiterate. "I'm not lying, I swear. Plenty of people know
Leonard remained silent.
me, Leonard. I don't have any feelings for you, okay? I just
want to thank you, from the bottom
and nibbled on my earlobe before
over the course of our relationship. It
on the bed weakly, almost crying
as he started to
raised a hand and waved it in
I was forced to hang on to
the evidence of my body reacting to
"Let go of me!"
I suddenly regained my strength and
me to the bed, continuing to do as
that was placed in his breast pocket
looked at it, my
of his and Phoebe's