At 8.00PM, Nigel left his parents’ home after dinner and started driving back to his place. He turned the music up while driving and began to enjoy his alone time as usual when all of a sudden, he started getting the feeling as if he had left something undone.

Soon, a woman’s face popped up in his head. He narrowed his eyes. Right. That woman’s still at the hotel. She should’ve gotten off work by now. Where did she go? Did she go home? But she did say she ran away from home and even refused to leave my place last night, so she’s probably too ashamed to go home. That means she could still be at the hotel.

His brain was telling him to forget about Queenie, but his hands had already started steering the car toward the hotel.

Half an hour later, Nigel’s distinguished figure made its way across the hotel lobby. He had a pretty good idea of where he could find her. If she were still in the hotel, there was only one place she could be-the staff lounge.

one of the staff lounges until he finally found Queenie all curled up and fast asleep on the

see. As the light

thinking that her fate would have been very different if another man had taken her home instead of

Nigel started calling out

sound asleep and didn’t stir at all. Nigel had no choice but to resort to physical means. He started patting her soft, tender cheek with the back of his

looked at the man in front of her in fright before

anxiety in her eyes gave way to a look of child-like surprise.

made her seem like an abandoned puppy that had grown to rely on Nigel. He felt a pang in his heart. Is she really that ecstatic that I’m

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