Love My Friends with Benefits

"Queena."

Leonard straightened his handkerchief leisurely, seemingly pondering something. After a moment of silence, he put it back inside his suit pocket and said slowly, "If you don't mind being my mistress... we can continue like this."

Mistress?

Continue like this?

I flipped the covers open and glared at him. "Don't you think you're being ridiculous?"

It was supposed to be his and Phoebe's wedding night, yet he'd ended up in bed with me and was even asking me to be his mistress.

It was ludicrous!

Leonard threw the red rose into the rubbish bin coolly. "Think about it, Queena."

Despite my exasperation, I tried my best to maintain my composure. "No, I don't need to. I don't want to have anything to do with you for the rest of my life."

"You don't want to have anything to do with me?"

Leonard chuckled as he repeated my words. He then leaned into me.

I reflexively backed away.

Unexpectedly, he merely lowered his head and swiped a hand on the sheets.

"That's not what your body says." Leonard showed me his fingers. "Queena, don't lie to yourself."

Without hesitation, I slapped his hand away.

He didn't get angry, merely walking towards the door while laughing. "Think it over. I have all the time in the world to wait for your answer."

"Save it!" I yelled furiously. "I'll never agree to it, not in this lifetime!"

He ignored me and continued towards the door.

When he reached the entrance, he bent down to put on his shoes, then turned back to say to me, "Oh, right. Since we're on the topic of a lifetime, you should remember this well. Even if I don't marry Phoebe, I won't marry you. Not in this lifetime."

With a click, he turned off the lights. The room fell into darkness.

I lay on the bed and listened to the sound of his footsteps fading away.

Leonard was gone.

enraged that my chest

expected to end up in Leonard's

humiliated thinking about

sheets were damp from our previous

...

familiar ringtone

Someone was calling me.

to move, still

ungodly hour, only Gail or Bell would be calling me. Phoebe would

reaction during the

in so much effort to maintain her image, painstakingly playing the part of a stately, gentle lady. That

I wasn't much

public and mine in private. Neither of us had won this

out that her fiancé had slept with me on

head, imagining her

probably want to kill me... even if her fiancé was the

I was deep in thought, my phone

flipped onto my side, trying to get away from the

...

my phone

They were really persistent.

just about to reject

...

"Hello?" 

my voice a

other end of the line. "Queena, did you

"Yeah," I answered simply.

up in her own world. "I never would've expected there to be so many reporters at the wedding... Did you see all those photos

to chat with her. I answered her perfunctorily, ready to

Let me finish." May

I sighed. "Go on."

some sleuthing online." May's voice turned serious. "It turns out that Leonard comes from an affluent and powerful family. Now that you've messed up his wedding, he won't let you off the

...

I didn't say anything.

fact, I'd found out about Leonard's background much earlier than May had. It was just that I'd been so caught up in the exhilaration of getting revenge that I'd completely

thinking ahead this time. She had never

to say, "You should be careful during this

know. Don't

and quickly hung