Sweet Mischief’s Rollercoaster Romance

On the car.

Without any prior agreement, both Mia and Leo clapped in unison for Jade who was sitting at the back.

Mia asked, "Jade, are you a silver-tongued devil or what?"

With an air of arrogance, Jade fluffed her bangs and smirked. "Hmph, I already planned to expose that bastard when I heard about it from Chad last night. I'd be a sinner if I helped him cover up such shocking news. And that ungrateful jerk actually had the guts to ask me out today. Like I, Jade, would ever fall for such a bad guy."

Leo curiously asked, "Jade, how did you know about the hourly hotel room and his... short performance?"

"My brother let it slip when he was cussing him out yesterday, and I overheard it," Jade confessed, looking at her friends innocently.

Last night, in Jade's room.

She was sitting cross-legged on the bed, a pillow on her lap, arms resting on the pillow, hands propping up her cheeks, listening to her brother's rant.

Suddenly, Chad revealed that Eaton didn't last long in the hourly hotel room. Jade's eyes lit up. She asked curiously, "Chad, are you saying he's bad in bed?"

Chad lightly tapped Jade's forehead, admonishing her, "What on earth is in that head of yours?"

After that, Jade was relentless, following Chad from her room to his, sitting on his bed, pestering him nonstop.

With curious eyes, she asked, "Chad, if he's that bad, what's so attractive about him?"

At that moment, Chad wished he could smack her out of the room.

He was her brother, not her boyfriend! How could he answer that!

So, Chad wrapped Jade in a blanket and threw her back into her room. "Chad-"

his bedroom door

...

Level, Mia and Leo got a full account of

Mia thought Jade

you guys? Is what they write in novels true,

exasperated, replied, "I'm still single, how

both of them turned towards the married one

at me?" Mia stuttered, caught off guard. "Just because I'm

your husband," Jade

asked Mia, "Do you remember what I told you

very clearly. She had even felt

her hand accidentally brushed against that part of him, she started to doubt Leo's words. "What are you two whispering about? Spill the beans," Jade, the gossip queen,

of you are allowed in on this." "What's going on with your husband? Just this morning you were

questioning,

be blinded by love. After

questioned for so long and gotten nowhere, Jade complained, "What

indicated on the phone, they got out

black, and white paint,

get these?" Leo

Mia responded, "I just grabbed a box without checking

of us could be Batman, another a ninja, and the third Spider-Man. We'd be

they accented with red and white stripes. And thus, their makeshift "native" disguises came to life. Later, their car halted before a hotel. Once the check-in formalities were done, they entered the elevator,

Sparse lighting from lamps barely cut through

to keep warm, Leo, despite feeling cold himself, took off his khaki jacket and

looked at the man behind her with gratitude, "Young man, my care for you at home

joke, ever since you came to our house, I've been reduced to a