Nancy virtually ran to her quarters. She could not understand why she was reacting this way. Why had Jason's kiss affected her the way it had? She thought that everything concerning romantic feelings were no longer for her. She had schooled her body not to feel and had succeeded so far and why not given what she had been through and with her struggle for survival but one single kiss had made her wild.

She had lied about it being her way of comforting Jason but she knew that was not entirely the truth. She had enjoyed the kiss and had wanted it to continue and it was only because of her shock at her wanton behaviour that she had pushed him away regretfully.

Even now, her body was still tingling from the effect of that kiss. She had not been kissed so deliciously that way. Not even with Rodney had she felt her inhibitions give way that easily.

She had become intimate with Rodney to prove to him that she loved him. She had not really been ready to do that otherwise. She had thought that he loved her. He had showered her with so much love and attention and money. She had been spoilt by him. She was given whatever she wanted or needed even before she could ask, provided it was what money could buy.

She had mistaken his generosity for love and care.

She had thought that he must love her so much to take time away from his work in London to be with her and make sure that she lacked nothing and when he pressured her to give in to his base desires, she had felt that that was the least that she could do.

She remembered clearly her first time with him. They had been dating for about a month and he had started being persistent about sleeping with her. She should have heard the warning bells then but she was too smitten with him to have paid any heed to any warnings.

'Let us wait a bit darling, I am saving myself for our wedding night ' she had said snuggling close to him.

'You are saving it for me right? Well why not give it to me now? I love you so much that I cannot bear to wait any longer to make you mine. I am always afraid whenever I am not with you. I feel that other men would see your exceeding beauty and take you from me!'

'But nobody can take me away from you. I love you so much. I love you and you alone.I am a one man - woman and could never be disloyal to you, ever', she had sworn still wrapped in his arms.

He had kissed her then Thoroughly. And she had felt lived and cherished and her desires had been awakened.

'That is just one thing I love about you. You are loyal. There is no trait of disloyalty in you and I am like that as well. We are alike in that way. But can't you see, since we are vowed to be faithful to each other and we both love each other and know that we are meant for each other, what difference does it make when we consumate our relationship? Love does not count all that. It is merely childish and old fashioned. If you really want to wait till our wedding night, then I shall definitely oblige you but I do not see the need for that if we really love and trust each other except of course you have your doubts concerning our relationship?'

'No, no. I have no doubts at all. I may have had doubts at first but not anymore. I know that you could never hurt me'

'Then why hesitate? If there is really so much love and trust, why is there so much distance?' he asked and she thought that she could see the sincerity in his eyes and hear it in his voice and she had allowed his roaming hands to draw her even closer.

He had kissed her fiercely but must have recollected himself and treating her tenderly, he impatiently discarded her clothes, stroking her breasts, caressing her body and she had become hot. Hot and yearning.

He had taken her breasts in his mouth and she had moaned loudly especially when he had alternated the stroking of her breasts with his tongue and biting her nipple. Causing her to be hot and cold at the same time.

He had proceeded in lying her down gently and bringing out a condom, he wore it and drove his hard length into her. She had not been well prepared. Her body had not yet been well lubricated and it protested the entry, but he kept pushing and it had been so painful,but his calming words had soothed her until her body had eventually yielded.

He had tried to be gentle but he lost control of himself and rode her impatiently and before you could say Jack Robinson, he started convulsing.

It had not been the way that she had envisaged that it would be. She had thought that the earth would quake, there would be stars and lightening but none of those things had happened. She had felt disappointed.

He rolled off her.

'You are sweet darling. Now you have proven to me that you love me in deed. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did?'

She had no option but to lie to him that she did.

'I know that it may not have been as pleasurable for you as it should have been but it is only because it is the first time. The next time, you won't feel the pain and it would be a pleasure ride'.

His explanation had been enough to dispel her doubts and she felt flattered that he loved her so much that he had been impatient to take her and make her wholly his.

Truely though, the next time had been better than the first and she started enjoying being with him intimately. Rodney had to have her almost every time after that first time. It was almost as though he had gone mad for her body and she felt flattered that he could not take his hands of her and felt that that was evidence enough for her of his love.

That was until she became pregnant because Rodney became careless and forgetful of protecting himself before having her and she didn't think anything if it, afterall they were both in love and would soon get married.

These thoughts made Nancy sad as she remembered how vulnerable she had been and how Rodney had taken advantage of her vulnerability and naivety.

She had to stop this. Thinking these hurtful and sad thoughts was not safe for her health or her baby's.

She went into the bathroom and had a quick shower before going to bed. Sleep was slow in coming as her thoughts were disorganized but she eventually fell into a troubled sleep.

She woke the next day a bit later than usual and by the time she got to the main house, she was told that her boss had already left for the office but had instructed his driver to bring her in another car.

Rebecca came out of her hiding place as soon as Jason left the house of the woman he had brought to the luncheon.

She did not know the reason she felt that she should follow them. Jason was normally very observant and she had taken care not to be seen by him as she tailed them but it had not been too hard. It would seem that he had been busy smooching the girl in the car while driving which was very unlikely. Jason was a very cautious man when it came to driving. He observed all the rules of safe driving, unless of course he had suddenly changed since the last they saw.

But if not, then he must be very distracted or bothered about something and she hoped it was because of her.

She had expected him to ell at her, be angry but she had been surprised at the civil way he had handled seeing her again after the way they had parted and she was sure their parting had really hurt him.

Could the reason for his obvious nonchalance be because he no longer cared for her let alone love her? Or maybe he was already in love with someone else?

She had thought that he would spend the night with his companion but he had left her and gone home alone. Of course they had gone in together but she doubted they did anything intimate be ause the time that elapsed before he came back out was not enough for them to have had sex.

She had felt strangely relieved that he had not spent the night with the Phoebe girl but that does not mean that they didn't have something going or that there was no other person in his life.

Her informants had told her how he lived now. Having numerous female companions. She had just wanted to check out the competition and knew intuitively like women did that Phoebe was no match for her and that was why she had gone back to her hotel rather than follow Jason home to see if there was any other rival she should be aware of.

One might want to ask her reason for all this. 'The reason is that I want my Jason back!' she said aloud.

She had not wanted to say it loud all these while because she had not known what his reaction to seeing her again would be but now that that first hurdle was jumped, she was going to proceed with her plan to get Jason to want her so desperately that he would want her back and not just that but beg her to come back into his life.

He may not propose marriage at first but at least they could start as lovers and once that was established, she knew how to go about getting her ex husband to agree to remarry her.

She had Intentionally said something about not wanting to be trapped in marriage but that was all a lie. She had realised the mistake she had made when she divorced him

She had thought that she loved Terry but they had been together for about six months before she realised that it had been mete infatuation. The novelty wore off and she was on the run again with another man when she could no longer stand Terry.

Terry had really been in love with her and she had thought that she felt the same way. Her attraction to him must have been due to boredom. Now she realised that she had not been wise enough

She could just continued having an extramarital affairs with Terry while she remained married to Jason and still have access to his wealth and all the luxury his money provided.

She had wanted too do it that way but Terry would not agree to that. Terry had infact stopped making love with her and she enjoyed his lovemaking to the point of obsession. She felt she could not do without feeling him inside her and if eloping with him would keep him by her side, then she was willing to do it.

She had tried to take as much money as she could possible steal from Jason and demanded more and properties from him during the divorce. She had been so lucky that he had not contested the divorce or her demands but with her lifestyle, the money was dwindling to nothingness.

She had had many wealthy make friends who had supplied her with money and fame but she could not get over how generous Jason had been

No one could measure up to the standard he had laid in her life and that was why she wanted him back. Not because of love. Love, my foot! What was the meaning of love?

Right next w she didn't know where Terry was and had been grateful when that girl had interrupted them, else she didn't know what she could have told Jason about Terry and if he found out the real truth,it might paint her in a bad light in his sight.

She planned to make an entrance at his office the next day and see how all went. It was also part of getting Jason's attention once more and finding out if there was anyone in his office who was close to him which she should be aware of.

Jason was not into office romance, so there was no threat there but just to make sure.

He also would not want to make a scene. If she could get him to take her out to dinner, then the first hurdle will have been jumped.

From the dinner, they could settle their differences and he could end up in her hotel room and on her bed or she could end up spending the night with him in his mansion. Only then would she know she was triumphant.

But she realized that it was not going to be as easy as she was thinking it. She had hurt Jason deeply and he just might not want to have anything to do with her and even if he consented to taking her out to dinner,it was no guarantee that he would want to stay further with her after the meal but that was where her skill at seduction and persuasion would come in.

She was not called 'Hot Rebecca' for nothing.

The first thing was to surprise him with a visit to his office. And to look good, she had to have her beauty sleep and get ready for the kill.

Nancy did not know if she should be happy or disappointed that Jason had gone ahead to the office without her. She found out that she felt both emotions.

She was happy that she didn't have to face him that morning after the events of the previous night. The kiss that is. But she was disappointed because she had wanted to know what he would say about it and how he would react to seeing her that morning and to tell this truth, she had wanted to stay close to him as they drove to the office. She missed their friendly chatter.

She consoled herself with the thought that they were going to see each other at the office in any case.

She got the driver to drive her to the office. She was growing used to her new life style and could not have asked for more. She had a comfortable dwelling place, friendly people surrounded her both at the office and at home. She had a good, well paying job and though her boss was a perfectionist, he was not a bad boss at all but ....

She must make sure that the kiss was never repeated, else it could cause complications in their friendly and cordial relationship and the last thing she wanted was for their working relationship to be strained.

Jason had intentionally gone a little to early to the office because he had wanted to avoid Nancy. He did not know what she thought of him now. Most probably as someone who could take advantage of a vulnerable woman. A man without scruples? That would serve him right but it irked him to think that Nancy might want to place him in the same category with the bastard that was so heartless as you get her pregnant and desert her with no thought to her welfare.

He still had not got round to getting her to tell him the whole story but he was sure that it was not going to be a pleasant tale at all.

Also, he didn't want to force her to confide in him if she was not ready. He believed that she would at her own time. But he would see if he could get her to confide in him just like she expertly did last night.

That night again! He didn't want to think about it because the more he thought about it, the more he wanted to kiss her again. He had not felt that way in a long long while.

What magic could she have woven in that little kiss? And she was not the one that initiated it but she broke it off, else he would have maybe started suspecting that she was trying to seduce him but since that was not the case, then he was the one guilty of trying to seduce a pregnant woman for goodness sakes!

'Jason where are your morals? Have you totally lost it?' he screamed inside his head.

He knew that he would have to put up the act of his life and pretend as they meet in the office that morning that it was nothing but just a brotherly kiss and that he had already forgotten about it and then she would have no option but to do likewise.

Why was he even bothered? Nancy may already have forgotten about the kiss. She had more important things to think anyways. Her pregnancy and what lay ahead was enough to distract her from thinking about it.

Rebecca woke and stretched luxuriously on her bed in the hotel room. Today was going to be a hell of a revelation. She felt the stirrings of apprehension but was not going to allow that deter her.

She called for room service and ordered her meal. Then she started preparing to go out as she had planned. The meal was brought and she ate and passed the time going through fashion and gossip magazines.

It was in one of such magazines that she found the heading:

'Is this pretty lady, the one for our Jason Campbell?'

The paper went ahead to talk about how Jason had brought Phoebe to such an important luncheon and that she must be important to him for him to have brought her and stated that they hoped this time it would be permanent and not like the other flings with the other ladies he had been seen with.

Then there was a portion that she was sighted at the luncheon with some influential people and wondered if she was there to reconcile with her ex or was just a guest at the luncheon.

'That remains to be seen. We hope that if she is back, it is not to cause more problems for the illustrious Jason Campbell', the paper ended.

Rebecca would have got angry if she thought that there was any truth in it but she had seen for herself and had come to the conclusion from her deductions that there was no threat there.

Afterwards, she dressed up delibrately in a very provocative cloth. It was not daring. It left no part of her body exposed but it was like a second skin to her and was very becoming on her. She looked herself in the mirror and felt satisfied with the outcome.

She knew she looked younger and irresistible and that was the impression she wanted to make. She wanted Jason to find her irresistible.

She got to the office and at the reception, she would have been stopped but because the receptionist recognised her, she didn't know what to do. She was noth shocked and amazed and didn't want to lose her job by denying the boss'ex wide entrance since she didn't know if they had reconciled or not.

She asked Rebecca to be seated and she quickly called the personal secretary to the boss.

Nancy picked .

'Nancy, is the boss around?'

'What is it Lizzy?'

'The boss' ex wife is here and I do not know if he is expecting her or not. Could you find out?'

'Right away!'

Nancy pressed a button on the phone that connected the call to her boss and asked him if she should ask his ex wife who had come to the office to come in.

Jason was shocked afresh at the woman's guts. What had she come to his office to do this time? He had not invited her. What was she doing there?

'Sir, are you still there? What should I do, send her in or tell her you are not in?'

Jason was tempted to ask them to tell her he was not in but he knew that she might wait there till he came out and he didn't want to cause a scene.

'Ask her in after about five minutes', he said and disconnected.

He had acted formally with her since they saw that morning.

Nancy felt that he must have forgotten about the kiss and why not? It had not meant anything to him.

After about five minutes, Nancy called Lizzy and asked her to ask in Rebecca.

As she ascended to Jason's office, the employees who knew her stopped what they were doing and greeted her and stared after her wondering if the boss and his wife were back together again.

Some gossip erupted as they contemplated the new development.

She came in and Nancy looked at the apparition before her and was dumbfounded.

The woman was a mermaid. Her beauty was unparalleled. Little wonder that her boss was so disturbed after seeing her yesterday. How could he resist this beauty personified?

'You may go in ma'am', Nancy said respectfully.

'Thank you!' she smiled and even her sing song voice was an attraction in itself.

Rebecca waled in and was face to face with Jason once more for the second time in less than twenty four hours.