Love My Friends with Benefits
Chapter 61: Investigation
Aunt Nancy stared at me. "Queena, why aren't you eating?"
Her voice was bland, and I couldn't sense any emotion in it. I answered uneasily, "I don't have the appetite."
"You can't skip meals," she said slowly. "You won't have the strength to deal with more complicated matters if you don't eat."
I thoroughly lost my appetite at her insinuation.
I threw the pasta away and suddenly remembered something. I asked Aunt Nancy, "Where's the security department?"
She was baffled. "Why are you asking about that?"
Because I wanted to see whether Phoebe was the one who'd caused Grandma to get so mad.
Since Leonard was around, I didn't tell her the truth. Instead, I said, "I lost some money this morning."
She didn't doubt me and told me the way. "It's on the third floor."
"I got it."
I headed towards the elevator.
Aunt Nancy kept her eyes on me the whole time. I couldn't discern the look in her eyes and felt uneasy. I quickened my pace.
When I turned the corner, I found that Leonard was right behind me.
I stopped and turned back to ask him, "What are you doing?"
He spread his hands. "You're not in the best condition. I was worried that you'd accidentally die."
I glared at him. "Die?"
"Yeah." He smiled. "For example. you could fall down the elevator shaft, miss a step on the stairs, or suddenly faint and choke on your own vomit..."
He spoke confidently as if these were things that were already going to happen.
I was rendered speechless. I ignored him and walked into the elevator before pressing a random button.
With Leonard around, there was no way I'd go to the security department. He was Phoebe's fiancé, after all.
A slender hand stretched out next to me and pressed the button for the third floor.
looked up at him grumpily, my voice still a little nasal from my crying. "What
didn't look at me. "The security department's on
want to go there," I
pressed me up against the wall and asked, "Why didn't you tell me that
me feel a
so that I didn't have to look at him. "Is there
said calmly. "I can help you find
a person, in
my lips and
trump card. "I'm a shareholder of
I was speechless.
It turned
did you lose the
that he wouldn't let the matter go until
I surrendered. "Alright, alright. I'm not looking for a
"What are
I was lost for words. "Either way, it has nothing to do
We had arrived on the
They had normal working hours, unlike the
a soul in sight. There was only one room in the distance with a light on, and I could see
The Security Department.
me out of the elevator and
the dim lights shining
to ask, "What do you
looked me right in the eye. "Tell me the
to shoot him down when he said, "I've never minded having public sex. I also
hair stood
"Queena, what do you think will happen if people were to see a video of
was threatening
angrily, "Are you
to laugh. "You got me wrong, Queena.
I fell silent.
dollars. I don't plan on getting it back." His hand
He made sense.
way to rebut him. "I can pay you
earn a maximum of thirty thousand dollars. How much do you have