Sore

It was noon by the time she woke up the next day. One look at the clock on the bedside table make her jumped up from the bed resulted in her falling on the floor. Her legs buckled and her thighs muscle are complaining they have work hard last night.

Steven came rushing in after hearing the thud sound."Need some help?" he pull her up against him. "Hmm....you smell like me,"he remarked placing a kiss on her neck.

"Stop it! You are not an animal although I am not so sure after last night. Are you a werewolf or some other kind? Tell me, I can take the news you know. For better or worst remember? And Why didn't you wake me up? I am soooo late for work!"she yelled the later part.

"Wow,wow....slow down wifey. First, knowing how new you are to this, you need rest. Second, I already called HK office to inform them you are only going in after lunch. Practically you are under my employment not theirs. Third, we are in our honeymoon phase without the actual honeymoon due to work so let us indulge a bit to be fair,"he list the points with his hands up in the air. One of the main quality Steven admired in his wife is her fierce loyalty to her family and now he is one. Loyalty as he learnt from his scandalous past cannot be bought and hard to come by even if they are sleeping with you.

As my knees threatened to give way again, she was hanging on one of his arm like a monkey. "Stop joking and help me go into the bathroom please,"she pleaded.

A long while later, she managed to clean herself with his help. Everything is done in slow motion since her whole body is aching. However, the feeling was forgotten when she saw the most beautiful knee length qipao pair with a short coat on the bed.

Steven return to the room with a hot cup of tea for her,"I got someone send it for you on express. It just arrived this morning and my mum send the light foundation and rose lipstick. She said you don't need anything on your baby skin until you are her age."

"Don't be ridiculous. I would give anything if I look as good as your mum at her age,"she said. "Anyhow, thank you for the dress. Initially I was planning to wear one from our previous shopping trip when you appoint me as the consultant for the project."

"Of course I think of you wifey. Believe me, I think of you every minute in the day,"he threw her his devilish grin.

Argh! He has to use his charm in the morning. She didn't feel like going to work or the dinner at all. Luckily having her long hair since young, she learnt to style it however she like. The skill save a lot of time and money like now. She plait them and shaped it into a low bun to go with the attire. With the light makeup kit her mother in-law sent, she look elegant and regal with a touch of innocent.

Steven can't help but admire his own wife. He is very sure of his own choice. He won't get tired appreciating her beauty as she mature. "I'll come to fetch you after your dinner tonight. I will be in the same area for a meeting too,"he must make an appearance to swat away potential flies he decided.

All head turn when she walked into the office today including Liliah. YaoYao was pleasant to the eyes but she never posed any competition back in university. Costume do make a person. She look completely different today; like a phoenix, and the way she walk changed too, as if she is taking in her surrounding before she step through.

Little does she knows YaoYao is cursing her husband inside. She is so sore that she has to walk so ever slowly. She has to plastered a smile on her face just in case people won't noticed.

"Well, well, well....you clean up good Ms. Qin,"Felix sound sly.

While Gillian and Naomi seldom asked her personal question, Felix is like a woman in a man body. He is most interesting in Steven of course and he lost interest awhile back when there was nothing to tell. Today however, he look like a cat got a fish at her.

"What?!" she snapped.

"You've got some didn't you?"Felix smile creepily.

Yes, he is most interesting on the topic of my husband libido. I have no idea why and he is giving me his stubborn chin out so I think he is going to keep asking until he got the answer.

"Yes, happy. Can we get back to work?" she hope he wouldn't want details of my sex life.

"Not so easy Ms. Qin, some basic information at least to satisfy public curiosity...."his eyes grown round which reminded me of Puss in Boots.

"Why are you calling me Ms. Qin today? And... I have no obligation to satisfy public curiosity," she replied.

"I called you Ms. Qin because you look like Ms. Qin today,"he gestured at my attire " And... if your Steven is The Steven, people would want to know if he could really you know....."Felix didn't finish his sentence but he lay a negative undertone to his statement.

"You mean there are rumours going around Steven that he, he, he underperformed?" it was difficult for her to find the right word.

Felix just raised both his brow twice at her.

"Well for the record, I'll have you know he perform very well thank you. At least twice yesterday and my muscle protest as we speak is the best proof to that!" she defend her husband.

"Only twice, what about you? Were you satisfy?" Felix took the opportunity to probe deeper.

"Of course I do. After three times the first hour I kind of black out so I lost count...."she realised he was trying to fish more information. She pressed her lips together and threw him a deadly glare which look cute to him.

"Ok, I am sorry but you can't blame me for trying. So the rumors are true, he can go on for hours. No wonder women threw themselves at him like moth to fire,"Felix comment.

"Are you telling me that Steven is a womaniser?" she was shocked.

"Was dear, as in past tense. He was a well known playboy until six months ago, he stop. Like totally stop. Rumor has it that he became so ill that he couldn't get it up you know. Maybe some sex disease and kaput! No more casanova,"Felix went on.

"What?! Steven is well known for being a playboy?!" her unstable voice portrayed her fear.

Felix had a feeling he will regret this conversation if he doesn't salvage Steven's image,"Well that is not the only thing he was known for but yeah, he was a casanova back then. I am sure his reason to stop is because he'd found you."

She didn't comment further but deep inside she was in turmoil. Steven knew her for two months not six months, what happened in between.