Filed To Story: Finding the Secret Daddy for My Baby Novel
He narrowed his eyes in confusion. “Why? What would change if you met me a few days later?”
She snapped back to the present and quickly smiled reassuringly. “It’s nothing.”
What Queenie had intended to say was: If Bonnie had not met Nigel, she might have willingly married Leslie. However, she immediately changed her goals after meeting Nigel and cruelly threw Leslie aside to seduce Nigel instead.
Nigel did not inquire further, but he couldn’t help feeling rather distressed when he saw her troubled expression. I’m sure she suffered great injustice due to Bonnie’s personality.
“Are you sleepy?”
“I’m not.”
“If you’re not sleepy, then I’ll take you out for a ride on the sea after dinner. Who knows? Maybe spending some time on the sea will make all your worries disappear.”
“Sure!” She smiled, feeling grateful that he was trying to cheer her up.
Halfway through their dinner, Lina sashayed over with a glass of red wine in her hand. “Nigel, allow me to offer you a toast.”
Queenie was drinking a non-alcoholic beverage, but she raised her glass to the toast. All of a sudden, Lina leaned against the back of Nigel’s chair in an intimate manner and murmured in a low voice, “Nigel, all of us have missed you greatly. We really hope that you’ll come back and hang out with us!”
Nigel raised his sharp eyebrows slightly and replied flatly, “I don’t mix with those people anymore.”
“I know, but you’re still a part of our group! You’re a famous person!” Lina deliberately glanced at Queenie. The reason why she mentioned these things was to let Queenie know that they used to hang out together in the past.
A sensitive person was bound to feel jealous or imagine something outrageous upon hearing those words, and men hated women who became jealous for no reason the most.
More importantly, Queenie would never be able to interact among these circles. That was why Lina had deliberately aimed to jab Queenie in the sore spot—it was to remind Queenie of her lowly status.
Needless to say, Queenie was not a fool. She understood the meaning behind Lina’s words and realized that Lina had a crush on Nigel. In fact, all the women sitting at the same table as Lina were secretly trying to catch Nigel’s attention.
Thus, she gracefully sipped on her drink and admired the scenery outside the window while pretending to be indifferent toward the conversation between Lina and Nigel.
On the other hand, Nigel was annoyed that his dinner with Queenie was being interrupted. He turned to Lina and bluntly said, “Miss Perez, I am discussing important matters with my girlfriend. Please do not disturb us.”
Lina blushed slightly and quickly babbled, “Of course. I won’t disturb you any longer. My friends are beckoning to me too!”
She hastily created an excuse and returned to her seat. Not long afterward, Nigel and Queenie stood up and left the restaurant together.
At this moment, Lina’s phone rang. She glanced at the caller ID and reached out to answer her phone. “Yes?”
“Miss Perez, I’ve gathered the information you wanted. It has already been sent to your phone.”
She quickly ended the call and checked the messages on her phone. A document related to Queenie’s background information entered her eyes.
After reading through the document, she couldn’t help being stunned. She could not believe that Queenie was the daughter of a century-old family business. It would seem that Queenie simply kept a relatively low profile and her family background was not inferior.
Lina’s expression was dark. She seemed to have underestimated Queenie’s upbringing. Nevertheless, there was one thing that made her slightly happier—Queenie’s family was not as prominent as hers.
“If I can’t get Nigel, then I’m going to make sure that she won’t get him easily either.” She angrily took a bite of the fruit.
At this moment, a small yacht was sailing away from the pier and out to the sea. Nigel was steering the yacht himself since he had plenty of experience. On the other hand, Queenie stood beside him. It was her first experience going out to sea, so her heart was racing in her chest. She kept a tight grip on his shirt and clung to the railing nearby anxiously, not daring to release her grip.
“Come here. I’ll teach you.” He slowed the yacht down and pulled her over to the steering wheel. Then, he circled her with both arms around the sides of her waist and pressed his strong chest firmly against her back.
The sudden intimacy made her heart race again. At the same time, she couldn’t help feeling exhilarated. Sure enough, all her worries from before had vanished into nothing. Her heart was currently overflowing with joy and excitement.
“Wow! I know how to steer the yacht now!” After driving the yacht for a few minutes, she suddenly exclaimed in pure delight.
His gaze landed on her face. The sea breeze toyed with her long hair, revealing her delicate face. Her appearance was absolutely sweet and alluring.
Seeing how happy she was, he couldn’t help feeling a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Moreover, the smile on her face made the corners of his mouth lift in response. They stopped the yacht in the middle of the calm sea and sat on the deck to stare up at the starry sky above them, admiring the full moon and boundless sea stretching out before them.
Queenie’s depressed mood from before was completely gone. Sitting here in the middle of the sea, she was in very high spirits. There was nothing that could disrupt her wonderful mood at the moment.
A small wave came, causing her to jump in fright and throw herself into the arms of the man beside her. Nigel was caught unprepared, so he was pinned to the deck by her weight. They were so close that their faces were almost touching.
Taken aback by the close distance, she stiffened and tried to pull away. However, an arm suddenly snaked around her waist and prevented her from moving. “Since you’ve already gone to the trouble of pushing me down, I’m not letting you leave just like that.”
Her complexion turned beet red at those words. How could I dare to pin him down?! Everything happened by accident!
The starlight and moonlight above their heads illuminated the world with a silvery light. The light from the yacht also shrouded around them. The man’s handsome face was the preference of most women— masculine yet delicate. In particular, the lines of his perfect jawline were sharper than her entire life’s plan.
All of a sudden, his Adam’s Apple rolled slightly as though he was swallowing nervously. She blushed and tried to get off him, but a palm suddenly pressed down on the back of her head at this moment.
“Uh…” She was completely caught unprepared, and her lips voluntarily pressed against his thin lips.
A wicked smile flickered in his eyes, and the kiss deepened. She was kissed so deeply that she couldn’t breathe, and her body became a little numb and weak as a result. At this moment, she no longer dared to loosen her grip on him and could only hug him tightly around the waist.
“Are you scared?” He could sense her fear. It had gotten late, and the waves had indeed gotten a little rougher.
Lying in his arms, Queenie nodded in response. It was true that she felt rather scared.
“Let’s return!” Nigel pulled her back into the cabin and drove back toward the hotel’s pier.
As soon as her feet touched solid ground, she felt extremely relieved. Sure enough, I’m better suited to living on land!
At this moment, her phone rang with the sound of a message coming in. She picked up her phone and saw that it was a message from Bonnie.
‘Queenie, I just realized that one of the pieces of jewelry that Leslie gave you is missing. It’s nowhere to be found. I suspect that it was most likely stolen by the servants, so I asked our parents to report the theft to the police.’
When she finished reading the message, she immediately felt very annoyed. The servants in their house had been serving them for at least five to six years and would never take anything that did not belong to them. Therefore, she was certain that Bonnie had taken this missing piece of jewelry and wrongly accused one of the servants of the theft.
‘What jewelry? Do you have evidence that the servants were the ones who took the jewelry?’ She quickly replied to the message.
‘In any case, it’s missing. Somebody must have taken the jewelry. You can’t be suspecting somebody from our family, right? I suspect that Courtney took the jewelry. I heard her daughter is about to enter college. I’m sure she doesn’t have the money to pay the tuition fees!’ Bonnie replied with another message.
Queenie was furious. Is it because Courtney had refused to testify for Bonnie previously? Is that why she is now accusing Courtney of theft!?
‘Don’t report this incident to the police yet. Wait until I get home tomorrow.’ She did not wish for Courtney to be wrongfully accused, so she decided to go home tomorrow and deal with this matter.