Never Too Far Novel

“To me, you guys are polar opposites. No matter how similar you both look on the outside, your personalities are obviously different. Queenie Silverstein, you should have more faith in me,” Nigel replied solemnly.

As soon as Queenie heard that, her confidence immediately returned and she hummed in response before saying, “Okay. I’ll let this go.”

“Do you have any plans for tomorrow?” she continued.

“If you agree to have lunch with me, then I will have a plan for tomorrow,” he replied.

Suddenly, Queenie felt a surge of anticipation in her chest. “Sure! Let’s do that.”

“Rest early and don’t think about anything else.”

“So, I can’t think about you tonight? Sure, I’ll do that,” she deliberately teased.

Nigel was speechless. “Except… for me. Think about me.”

“Will you be thinking about me too?” she asked.

“Yes.”

Finally satisfied, she concluded, “Good. I’ll be thinking about you too. Good night.”

“Good night,” he responded.

Queenie waited for a while before hanging up. With anticipation, she was imagining her lunch date with Nigel tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Bonnie had changed into casual clothes and was having her meal downstairs. She asked her mother, “Mom, are Queenie and Young Master Nigel dating?”

“Judging by the situation, I think they are.” Maggie was happy, as she no longer had to worry about her eldest daughter since Queenie was such a lucky person to have met Nigel. For now, she only had to worry about her younger daughter’s future.

“Mom, do you really think that our family can match up to the Manson Family? What if Young Master Nigel is only playing her?” Bonnie asked worriedly.

Truth be told, Maggie was also worried about that matter, for she did not want her daughter to fall for an ungrateful person either. With a frown, she stated, “I will tell Queenie to be more alert. If he is playing with her feelings, then she should stop this relationship and not let it ruin her life.”

“Mom, don’t worry. I’ll help Queenie keep a lookout as well.” Bonnie smiled.

Assuming that it was a kind gesture, Maggie grinned approvingly. “That’s good! This is how sisters are meant to be; always loving, helping, and thinking about each other.”

At about 9.00AM next morning, Courtney heard the doorbell ring before she went to open the door. It was then she saw Leslie standing there with a bouquet of flowers in his hands.

“Mr. Payne, you’re here so early!”

Although Leslie still had a bandaid on his face, he looked to be in high spirits as he dressed up handsomely. He held the flowers in his arms, came into the house, and entered the dining room.

Brandon had left early in the morning whereas Bonnie and Queenie had just finished their breakfast while Maggie was instructing the servants about something.

Just as Bonnie was about to head upstairs, she heard footsteps coming from the entrance and turned her head to see Leslie walking in with a bouquet of flowers. Her expression immediately turned disdainful and she rolled her eyes. “Leslie, didn’t I make myself clear? I told you to never come—”

However, before she could finish, she saw him walking toward the couch with the flowers and knelt on one knee before the couch where Queenie was sitting. “Queenie, please accept these flowers. They are a token of my gratitude.”

Queenie was stunned for a few seconds. Is Leslie giving me flowers? What’s going on?

“Leslie, you’ve got the wrong person!” She frowned.

On the other hand, Bonnie also wondered if Leslie had hit his eye in the car accident yesterday. Otherwise, why was he unable to differentiate between Queenie and herself?

Although Bonnie had given up on him, watching him present flowers to her sister made her feel uncomfortable.

“No, I’ve got you right. This flower is meant for you, Queenie. I apologize for all the hurt I’ve brought to you. Please forgive me.” Leslie felt like he had been reborn and did not even spare Bonnie a glance since he came in.

Meanwhile, Bonnie bit her red lips as she looked disbelievingly at what had happened. Did Leslie just ignore me and is now confessing his love for Queenie?

“Leslie, I heard that you got into an accident yesterday. Where are you hurt?” Bonnie took the initiative to ask about his well-being and walked toward the couch.

As the man turned his head to look at her, his eyes were no longer filled with affection anymore; instead, there was only coldness. “I don’t need your sympathy.”

“I’m sorry. It was all my fault. I shouldn’t have left you behind and caused you to get into an accident.” While saying so, Bonnie was shooting him with eyes full of grievances. Back then, she only had to frown a little and Leslie would buy her gifts to coax her.

At first, she thought that Leslie would still care about her feelings like he always did. Yet, she only heard him snort lightly. “I was blind. How could I have left such a good woman like Queenie and get seduced by a heartless woman like you?”

“Excuse me. Did you say I’m heartless? How am I heartless?” Bonnie refused to admit that.

Watching them about to get into a heated argument, Queenie wanted to leave as she stood up and said, “You guys go on. I’ll be in my room.”

However, Leslie grabbed her wrist as soon as she rose to her feet. “Queenie, don’t leave.”

Immediately, she withdrew her hand and warned, “Don’t touch me.”

Despite being given the cold shoulder, Leslie did not show any displeasure. On the contrary, he smiled and offered, “Since we can’t be lovers, can we be friends?”

Bonnie’s eyes were wide with shock. Has Leslie fallen for Queenie?

Clearly, Queenie did not want to have anything to do with him, so she went upstairs, but Leslie had no intentions of leaving either. Meanwhile, Bonnie sat on the couch and pretended to be aggrieved.

She wanted to test Leslie’s reaction because she did not believe that he would forget about her overnight. In fact, she was confident that her charms could keep him around.

As soon as she noticed he had turned his head to look at her, her eyes reddened. “I’m sorry, okay? I didn’t want to hurt you last night. I was mad.”

However, she did not know that the car accident from last night almost killed Leslie. After the near-death experience, he finally understood that the most important thing in the world was not outer beauty but having a conscience.

“We’re done. All I want to do now is to compensate for what I’ve done to Queenie,” he stated.

“Leslie, have you forgotten how she brought Nigel to dinner last night and humiliated you? I don’t recall seeing her being sad about that!” Bonnie snorted lightly and argued.

At that moment, Leslie received a call before he answered it while rising to his feet. “Has everything been sent over?”

Then, he quickened his pace out the door. Bonnie involuntarily got up and stood before the French window, wondering what he sent over. As he was from a well-off family and was not a stingy person, the gifts he had given her throughout the six months they were together might have exceeded a few hundred thousand.

Soon after that, she saw him returning with three employees from a jewelry store. They were wearing gloves as they carefully drew out four sets of jewelry from the suitcases they had brought.

The sun was shining down on them, making the jewelry dazzle ravishingly, and every piece made Bonnie’s heart skip a beat. These four sets of jewelry must have cost at least a hundred thousand! When has Leslie become so generous?

“Mr. Payne, the jewelry you ordered has arrived. Please sign here.”

“Very well. I’ll contact you if there’s any issues.” Leslie nodded as he sat down on the couch.

Once the jewelry store employees had left, Bonnie quickly sat down beside him and pointed at one of the necklaces. “Leslie, the dress I ordered just happens to need a matching necklace! Can you give me this one?”

“You see these four sets of jewelry? Well, none of them are yours and you can stop dreaming about it. These are all for Queenie.” After finishing his words, he shut the jewelry boxes and carried them upstairs.

Bonnie, who was left alone in the living room, narrowed her eyes and secretly stomped her feet. As expected, one never knew what they had until they lost it. At this point, she realized that she was now more attracted to Leslie than before.

Yet, the man only had eyes for her sister now.

On the other hand, Queenie was passing the time in her room by flipping through books. She was waiting for the clock to strike 11.00AM so that she could leave for her date with Nigel. Unexpectedly, someone knocked on her door.

“Queenie, open up. I have something to tell you.” The sound of Leslie’s voice rang from the outside.

Frowning, she wondered why he had yet to leave. She wanted to ignore him, but he would knock on her door every few seconds, which annoyed her. Thus, she got up and opened the door to see him carrying a few jewelry boxes in his arms.

“Queenie, why don’t you have a look at these and see if you like them? I picked them out especially for you.” Leslie clumsily unlatched the first jewelry box to show her the contents.

However, Queenie merely swept her gaze over the jewelry before looking back at him. “Leslie, I’m telling you, don’t bother me ever again. We can’t even be friends, let alone be lovers, so please leave my house.”

Leslie pursed his lips. Of course, it did not feel good to be rejected, but the usually proud and arrogant man was humbled at this moment. He reasoned with her while hugging those jewelry boxes to his chest. “If you want me to leave, sure, I’ll leave, but you have to accept these. I’ve hurt you so much, so I must compensate for it.”

Before Queenie could react, he pushed her door open and placed all the boxes on the couch in her bedroom. Then, he turned around and left.

“Leslie, take them with you,” she called out from behind him.

However, Leslie ran downstairs and left through the living room. Bonnie approached him and wanted to converse with him, but he did not bother to even spare her a glance.

“Leslie,” she called out again as she bit her lips.

After he left, Queenie looked annoyedly at the four jewelry boxes without any desire to look at them. For her, those were not anything good; they were trouble.

Before she could close the door, Bonnie came over with a resentful expression. “Queenie, what did you say to Leslie last night? Did you talk sh*t about me?”

She believed that Queenie definitely had something to do with why Leslie suddenly changed his mind about her.

While raising her eyebrows, Queenie questioned, “Didn’t you say you never loved him? You should be happy he chose to break up with you.”

A wicked glint flashed across Bonnie’s eyes as she smiled. “That’s right. I don’t love Leslie anymore because I fell for another man.”

her fists. “Bonnie, you can have whatever that belongs to me,

not to touch

where her rage came from, but when she saw the smug look on Bonnie’s

Though Queenie never slapped anyone, Bonnie had stepped on her

back. However, just at that moment, she heard her parents’ voices

over? Where is he?” It

Bonnie looked at Queenie and threatened, “Just you wait for the day where you’ll be chased out of

finished, she turned around and ran into

“Ahh!”

Queenie could react, she saw Bonnie crash into the doorframe as a trail of blood was running down her hairline.

drink of water when they heard the commotion from upstairs. They

Queenie was stunned by what had happened. She never expected Bonnie to be so ruthless as to run into the wall and injure herself just to frame

gosh! Bonnie!” screamed Maggie when she saw the terrifying scene of her daughter lying on the floor with her face covered

did you push me? What did I do wrong?” Bonnie struggled to

the hospital, quick! Send Bonnie to the hospital. She’s going to

arms and yelled at Queenie, “What did

the wall herself.” Though Queenie was telling the truth, the current situation rendered her

was also looking at Queenie as if her youngest daughter’s distressed state was all caused by Queenie. Besides the blood flowing from Bonnie’s forehead, there was a visible handprint on one side of her face, but her eldest daughter was standing there

those words in disappointment, she quickly left with her husband, who had Bonnie in

there. Tears of grievance welled up in her eyes as she thought about the questioning gazes her parents threw at her as if she was a ruthless person; those gazes were like knives

a deep breath and suddenly had the

so, she could move out for

went to her closet, took out her suitcase, and began to pack her clothes. She had decided

in the

face, which was left by

arguing about? Why did Queenie

said something wrong and triggered

did you

break up with Leslie, and she suddenly became irritated. She even framed me, saying that I was going to steal her current boyfriend, Nigel. I felt so wronged. Does breaking up with Leslie mean I wanted to snatch her boyfriend from her? How could she think of me this

sighed.

have pushed you or hit you for that matter. If you had to be taught a lesson, we should have

hates that I look like her. She said she hated my face. S-She wanted to ruin my face! I was so

is that? You both are twins. Of course, you two look very

my face someday and that I will steal her boyfriend again, so she wanted to disfigure me.” Bonnie was desperately trying to

Bonnie, you must have misunderstood her.” Maggie did not believe her eldest daughter would bear

Master Nigel so much that she wouldn’t let anyone steal him from her. She must be in over her head. That’s why she did this to me, but I understand her and don’t blame her.” Bonnie put on a selfless

daughters saw each other as enemies and they would feel distressed if any one of them got

the passenger seat of her car before stepping hard

bad-mouth her as much as possible before their parents. Instead of letting her parents lecture her

to them until

onto the road, she

my way

need. I drove my car out.” She

caught something wrong with her

in a fight with my sister. I want to move out for a

meet up

“Alright.”

at the restaurant where she and Nigel agreed to meet. Very soon, a black SUV entered the parking

the approaching man with an elegant and handsome demeanor, she imagined Bonnie wrapping her arms around his and showing off her victory to

let someone like Bonnie get close

in a

She felt a warm feeling inside her when he held her hand and all the grievances she had suffered

hurt her,

restaurant, he narrowed his eyes as he asked, “So, tell

expose the skeleton inside her family’s closet, nor did she want Nigel to know that Bonnie was plotting to get close to

that if he was someone who other women could easily

and foremost. She

you believe in my character, you don’t have to stay at the hotel.

that be such a hassle?” Excitement secretly flashed across her eyes. She had thought

according to her twenty-four years of life

lips into a smile, he persuaded, “Did you forget? If we were to be together, wouldn’t we have to live closer

for a few seconds. Does he

offer.” Queenie still remembered his junk food stash. If she stayed at his home, she would be able to eat all the snacks she wanted for free. She could use dating him as an excuse to eat all his delicious snacks. Wasn’t that something to look forward

his suggestion, he could not help but wonder if she would do

the woman before him was so naive

that moment, Queenie’s phone rang. She glanced at it

between the phone and Nigel, she decided to answer the call in private so that he

Soon, she grabbed her phone, exited the

first words would be very loud, she

are you?” As expected, her father’s voice boomed out of

grievance before putting the phone closer to her

seriously injured, yet you’re still in the mood to eat? You’re lucky Bonnie isn’t disfigured. Do you know what the consequences would be if she

chose to hit the part of her head that she could cover with her hair. No matter

it to herself.” Queenie could not help but reason to him because

do this to herself? Also, did you leave a slap

do.” She was also a person with integrity. If she did it,

nicer to her?” Brandon was

her lips and stated, “Dad, I’ve already decided to stay at a friend’s house for the time being.

mean to chase you away… Why are you—”

me. Take good care of my injured sister.” After saying that, Queenie hung up. Now, it would be more peaceful at home and around her. Also, she did

At the Silverstein Residence.

ended the call, she pretended to come down the stairs and asked, “Dad, where

always been stubborn and she’d

Bonnie’s eyes. Could the friend Queenie was

she could get her parents to scold Queenie and drive them away from each other. Yet, she never expected she would give Queenie

unlike Leslie. She could not meet him as easily

staying at Young Master Nigel’s home!

if it might be true. Was his eldest daughter staying at Nigel’s home?

son-in-law too.”

into a family that is not as good as Queenie.” Then, Bonnie shamelessly ran toward Brandon and

alright. I will introduce you to men with prominent backgrounds if I have the chance. Oh, right. I have an invitation

a

largest business banquet Averna has had in recent years. You can meet a lot of excellent young men

other than Nigel. As long as she paid more attention to her outfit and makeup, she would

met at a banquet

that no man would dislike a taste of something new, especially men like Nigel. She had the

Back at the restaurant.

mood as Bonnie had given

father scold you?” Nigel

course, he did, but I’m thick-skinned enough to not be afraid of getting a scolding from him!” She smiled as she started to anticipate staying

her car to Nigel’s home. As she got to the parking lot, she discovered her car was the cheapest one among all

is my first time seeing this car. This must be a sports car, right?” she asked

I’ll take you out on a ride in it someday.” The gaze Nigel showered at the car also seemed like he was looking at

how it was to sit

brought into the elevator by Nigel as they went straight up to the third floor. She was shown to the

a long stay, she brought many clothes with her and a full set of her daily necessities like facial cleansers

scenery, she felt a hint of sorrow rising inside her. Avoiding the problem should not be the

peaceful life without having to help Bonnie clean up the mess she

can I do about this sister of mine?

chocolate box appeared in her sight line. Her eyes lit up, and all her worries were thrown out the window as she reached for the box of chocolate and looked up at the man offering it to

down beside her. Then, Queenie silently returned

the box of chocolates back into her arms. “Good

astonishment as if those words were sweeter

liked about her, she felt happy

unwrapped the first one and

bite, Queenie looked at the half-eaten chocolate and waited for him to finish before feeding it to him. Unexpectedly, he mischievously held her

a bite! Don’t be

and tasted the same rich taste from the same chocolate piece

finished the whole box alone, but since two

had enough, she said, “This chocolate is so good. It’s a pity we can’t get

available in the country did not mean that

moment, his phone rang and Queenie just happened to see Julian’s name. She thought,

“Hey, Julian.”

I come over to your place and play

to come over during this near

it

“What do you think?”

the person who drew

Nigel did not want to publicize this matter, as it was better to date someone in the dark. If anyone found out about this, especially his parents, he would not be able to enjoy dating someone because his parents would start

your senses?” Julian asked.

her eventually.” After Nigel finished,

movie star?”

she was Julian’s fan, so before she could completely fall in love with

probed while

All my friends

the man’s eyes were dangerously narrowed as he