Chapter 469

Queenie tilted her head and grabbed Joshua's arm, using it as leverage to jump higher and try to get the nightgown. All he did was hold the nightgown up, but that was hard enough for her to reach. He watched as she jumped before him, their faces close to each other. Then, he wrapped an arm around her and held her close so she couldn't jump anymore. "What are you doing? Let me go!" She swatted the hand around her waist. "Let me go." "Wear it for me, will you? Just this once tonight." Joshua sounded pitiful as he spoke. He and Queenie were so close that the tips of their noses brushed against each other. She could smell his aftershave. This was probably what the intimacy between a married couple was like. She wrapped her arms around his neck, feeling like she couldn't bear to turn him down since he was pleading with her. She blushed and nodded lightly. "Well… just this once…" "Great." Joshua knew it would be easy to persuade Queenie to agree. "Don't stay out too late if you go out with Joanne tonight, then. Wait for me to come home so we can go to bed together." "You can't be too late, too. I might fall asleep if you do." She knew he must've insisted on her wearing the nightgown that night because he didn't want her to stay out too late. He was so scheming! They dallied in the wardrobe for a while before leaving, so they didn't have time for breakfast. Queenie hurriedly prepared a lunch box for Joshua, putting it in a bag with his breakfast so he could eat them at work. Queenie and Joanne had already planned a shopping trip for that day, so they met at a milkshake store near the plaza in the morning. It was a place they'd frequented in their college days. "Are you going to buy a present for your precious Mr. Newman? If you ask me, I don't think you need to prepare anything. All you need to do is have a nice bath and pick one of the nightgowns I bought for you. Then, you lie in bed and wait for him to feast on you. That would be the best gift for him!" Joanne said. Queenie flushed at her words. "What goes on in that head of yours?" She sipped her milkshake. "Don't tell me you and Wayne get up to that sort of stuff now that you're living together." "Nah, we're not the same as you two. At most, we're just housemates. Besides, he and I have set clear boundaries—we don't sleep in the same room, nor are we on the same wavelength." Joanne waved a hand. There was no way she and Wayne would fall for each other. Queenie saw how stubborn she was and said, "That was what Mr. Newman and I were like when we first married. I thought he and I would never be on the same wavelength, either. Look at how well we get along now." Joanne sipped her milkshake and said nonchalantly, "Wayne isn't the same as your husband, and I have no intention of trying to get along with him as you did with Joshua. He'll kick me to the curb once our interests are no longer linked or when he realizes his interest in me is only temporary. "He'll grow bored of me soon enough and dump me. I have a feeling this so-called relationship between us will end before we even get to the engagement stage. He's a playboy who has to bear the burden of leading his family, after all." "Don't you think you're being too pessimistic about this, Jojo?" Queenie had always known that Joanne was realistic. The latter might love watching romance dramas and reading romance novels, but she wasn't one to get lost in the fantasy of love. "I'm not being pessimistic—I'm just realistic. You know that we're worlds apart from the Newmans, Queen. Setting everyone else aside, Wayne's mother would be the first to disagree because she doesn't like me. I don't know how his family agreed to us being together, but I don't think this will last," Joanne said. A woman's sixth sense was generally accurate. Joanne had told her she and Wayne wouldn't make it. She continued, "Instead of talking about Wayne and me, how about we talk about you and Joshua? Has your relationship reached a new stage now that you guys have slept together?"