Chapter 135: Chapter 135
It had not been my intention to desert you. I loved you too, you know but I also knew that I would be putting my family on the line if they got wind of your pregnancy.
They could pardon a father who became unfaithful but bringing an illegitimate child into the family would have been too much for them to accept or bear's he said.
'Snd I had to be the one to suffer through it all? Do you know, how you even imagine what I had to go through when you left? None of your friends was willing to assist. It was almost as though you had asked them not to help me in any way. How is that love? You could at least have thought of your blood growing in my womb, Rodney. Why did you have to do what you did? And I who loved you do much. Even your wife could never love you as much as I did but I get it. Afterall she is the legal wife and had full rights over you whole I was the other woman. I might not even have minded if you had just been more understanding but you left because I meant nothing to you!' she said allowing her voice to tremble ever so slightly like someone on the verge on tears but who was trying hard to hold it in.
'But if you still felt that way, why did you not try to contact me?'
'Contact you!' she asked incredulously. 'Did you forget that I was never to get in contact with you anymore? We're those not your exact words? How could I disobey and ruin your home? I loved you so much that if staying away from me was going to make you happy, then so be it's.
'And when I came to Jason, why did you act as though I meant nothing to you?'
'How was I to act? Give you a standing ovation for putting me through all you did? Hug out and ask you to allow bygones be bygones? I was not even sure you were serious and I was still hurting'.
'Jason and you seemed to be in love with each other'.
'He may be but I had to find a way to survive and so I tried to like him but found out that I couldn't because my heart was still yearning for someone who didn't want me. I understood his plight because I was feeling the same way about you. How was it possible to suddenly get over a love just a few months after the breakup? And not just that but to fall in love with another? If it is easy for you, then it isn't easy for me or for any girl who is truely in love, I must say'.
Rodney could not contain his elation st hearing this. So she had not been in love with Jason but had accepted him on the rebound?
'You were going to get married to Jason. At least he said so!' he accused.
'He said that to convince you not to due him to court. He wanted you to think that he would have a legal backing to adopt our child. Sincerely, that was the first I heard of the proposal but I couldn't show you that I was shocked but I also knew that he must have his reasons for saying that which he explained to me later to my relief because I didn't know how I could be married to one man while pining for another'.
'And the man you went out on a date with?'
'He is just a friend. We just went out to have a good time away from the house. Nothing intimate. Does that not show you that there was really nothing between Jason and me? If there were,why would he allow another man take his fiancee out on a date while he tagged along watching? And why would I do such a thing? Dies it make sense? I leave you to answer that'.
Rodney was deep in thought. Alot of things made sense now and he felt lucky that he had decided to take Nancy away. So she had really never stopped loving him? He was going to show his wife who was boss. She thought that he had lost Nancy but she would be surprised when she saw them together with their child after he was through with her and her family.
He did not kid himself that it was going to be easy but he would work on it.
Nancy felt that she should get some information from him while she was at it.
'But what I do not understand is how we are going to keep it from your wife'. She wanted to know why he suddenly did not care if his wife knew about them or not.
'You do not have to bother yourself about that. I shall take care of it,' he said in deep consideration.
'But why didn't you want to do anything about it before?'
'The situation was different then'.
'Different? How different?'
'Nancy you do not have to bother your sweet head about it. Just leave me to deal with it. Just be aware that I still do not want my wife to know that we are together but even if she does come to know, it will not make a difference to me'.
Nancy felt in her bones that there was something not quite right and that something was what Rodney was keeping from her. She wanted to see if she could force it out of him but she was afraid that he would grow suspicious.
' Provided I will be safe from the wrath of a jealous wife. I had not intended for it to be this way but since it is, I can only make the best of it but you are promising that I shall be safe and so will my baby?'
'You have nothing to worry about', Rodney assured her holding her close.
It took all her effort and discipline to keep from pulling away.
She nuzzled closer to him.
He combed her hair back and kissed her and Nancy nearly gagged.
'What is your plan now?' she asked to stop him from furthering the kiss.
'What do you mean?'
'I mean, we cannot stay here forever. We might soon be located and what then? You must have plans for us to leave. So when are we leaving and for where?'
'I plan for us to leave tomorrow and I have got us tickets. We shall have to disguise ourselves so that no one recognizes us.
I have an apartment already furnished for you. It is fit for a queen like you and I promise to treat you as such from henceforth'.
Nancy smiled trying with all she had to convey happiness and gratitude, emotions which she did not feel.
She was scared that she would not be able to escape before they caught their flight and it was not possible that she would be rescued before then. And when they were already airborne, all hope of being rescued would be lost forever.