Love My Friends with Benefits novel Chapter 41

With visiting hours over, I took the elevator towards the first floor, my mind racing over what had just happened.

Had Leonard brought Bell here to get me in trouble? What did Phoebe and Gail have planned for me? What should I do to get away from them...

With a ding, the elevator came to a stop.

I had my head bowed. I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and walked out of the elevator, not even noticing that this wasn't the first floor.

Suddenly, a pair of arms shot out from the side and wrapped around me.

Shocked, I was about to cry for help when something pressed against my lips and silenced me. A familiar cologne wafted over me.

It was Leonard.

The moment I realised this, my eyes turned red with rage.

"Let me go!" I struggled desperately, kicking and punching him.

...

I managed to stomp on Leonard's foot. He let me go with a scowl. "You lunatic."

He'd done all these things, yet he had the nerve to call me a lunatic?

I raised my head and glared at him. "Let me go, you animal!"

Leonard's eyes turned stormy. "Say that again."

I was so furious that I actually repeated myself. "I said, you're an animal!"

I thought that Leonard would fly into a rage and do something to me here. Unexpectedly, however, he quickly calmed down. "Give me a reason."

I sneered. "How about you going against our deal and bringing Bell to the hospital?"

Leonard smirked. "Is that it? Anything else?"

"This is more than enough!"

I started to struggle furiously again.

However, there was too big of a difference between his strength and mine. He only had to use one hand to subdue me.

"Stop moving, or I'll take you right here and now," he said. "Queena, did you really think that I was trying to push you over the edge?"

I refused to give in. "What else could it be?"

Leonard actually started to laugh. "Silly girl."

His laughter washed over me like a bucket of cold water, immediately extinguishing my fury. I started trying to deduce his objective.

A nurse hurried towards us from behind him, a notebook in her hands. I wanted to let out a yell to attract her attention so that I could get away from Leonard.

"Don't be silly." He seemed to guess what I was thinking and lowered his head, rubbing his nose against mine affectionately. "As I said, I don't mind taking you right here and now."

I knew that this b*stard would definitely act on his threat.

I had no choice but to keep quiet.

The nurse passed by us and blushed at our intimate posture before hurrying away.

I thought woefully to myself, "She probably thinks that we're a couple."

Leonard patiently waited for the nurse to leave before asking me, "Have you had a smooth-sailing life, Queena?"

The fury that I'd barely managed to extinguish was reignited with that one sentence.

"Yes, everything's been wonderful." I let out a disparaging laugh and started counting with my fingers. "When I was six, my mother took her own life and gave up my family for a mistress and an illegitimate daughter. When I was sixteen, the Jones family kicked me out and I had to support myself through university... Compared with your Phoebe, my life's been perfect!"