Chapter 162: Chapter 162

When they got home, Nancy went into her room and locked it.

Jason went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Potts to prepare something good for Nancy.

'How did the check up go, Mr. Campbell Sir?'

'Not good at all and her baby is now on danger as well. Some body has been forcing her to recall things'.

'I knew it. When Miss Phoebe went out with her the other day....' her voiced trailed off. She did not want to seem too assuming.

'Yes, Mrs. Potts, you have my permission to speak'.

'Well they seemed in deep conversation and from a distance, I could see her facial expression change. Then not long afterwards, Nancy came in looking sickly and I made her some tea and took to her. I confronted Phoebe but she denied it like she was apt to do and fated me to tell you about it and that if Nancy denied it, then she would make my life a living hell's.

Jason saw how it was and nodded.

'You did well, Mrs. Potts. Do not be scared. I want to give you an additional duty. Keep your eyes on Nancy. Make friends with her afresh and gain her trust but you must not speak against Phoebe if you want her to learn to trust you because she thinks that Phoebe is her friend. You are wise. You know how to go about it.

Nancy's life may be in danger. So please keep a close watch over her and the activities of Phoebe. I shall try to keep her away from the house but you know how she is. I do not want to raise her suspicions at all'.

'I shall try my very best. Nancy is not just my friend, she is my daughter as well. I shall guard her with my life', she said and Jason smiled and patted her on the back.

Jason decided to pay Phoebe a surprise visit one evening that he knew she would not come to the mansion.

Phoebe was astonished to see him and wanted to alert Romeo who was inside but he, not thinking that Jason could come to the house came straight out of the bathroom to see who the person was, with a towel tied round his tiny waist.

'Good evening Jason, what a surprise', she said holding the door and not making any move to leave it.

'Who is that darling?' Romeo said as he came out and was shocked to find that it was Jason. He didn't know if he should run back into the bathroom or to stand his ground.

He remembered that he was a man and Phoebe was his woman and stood solidly behind Phoebe.

'May I come in? You both seem astonished to see me'.

Phoebe had no option but to leave the door while opening it wider for him to enter.

Jason came in and sat down.

'Won't you introduce us, Phoebe and please be at your ease. We both know that there is no love lost between us'.

'Jason, this is my friend Romeo and Romeo, this is Jason. You have heard me talk about him. He is the father of my unborn child'. She said looking at Romeo imploringly because she knew what he could do.

There was a moment when Romeo looked daggers at her but seeing the plea in her eyes, smiled and offered his hands to Jason for a handshake.

Nothing had escaped Jason's notice. The possessive way, the young man had come out to protect his love. The look of anger when she introduced him as her child's father and the forced smile he fixed on his lips. A smile that did not really get to his eyes but in all, he could see that the young guy was not a bad sort if you do not step on his toes. He was just in love with Phoebe. He could tell because he was in love himself but with a different person.

'Jason, to what do I owe this honour?'

'Is it now a crime to come and see the woman who might be carrying my baby?' he asked intentionally, looking at Romeo and that frown came to his face again before he schooled it.

'It is not but it is when you keep doubting me'.

'Oh?'

'You want me to trust you? And you stooped as low as you did with Nancy?' Jason asked in a calm voice masking his fury.

He had not wanted to confront her but he just found himself doing just that.

Looking scared, sure that her secret was revealed, she asked calmly, 'What did I do to Nancy?'

'You knew that she had a gun shot on her head and the doctor said we must not force her memory but since she got back you have been doing this and the last you did was just too fatal that she nearly had a complication', Jason said, wanting the Romeo guy to hear it.

'You are a woman and pregnant too. She is pregnant and in pain and for your selfish reasons, you would want to endanger a another woman and her unborn child? Don't you have any conscience?'

'You accuse me without basis. Is this how we are going to make a go at the contract marriage?'

It was on the tip of Jason's tongue to say there was going to be no marriage between them, contract or otherwise but he bit back his words.

'The doctor found out that she had tried to force her memory and the last person who went out with her was you. I saw it myself. I hadn't wanted to allow that due to other things you had been doing since she got back but I decided to trust you, now see where it had led me!'

'You speak as though Nancy is dead and how come you are willing to believe the worst of me? Someone else could have done it's.

'Eho else but someone who had posed as a friend who could tell her the truth others were hiding from her though this good friend knows that it is detrimental to her health to be told such truths at the moment.

Because if the effect of what you had done, she nearly lost her baby and she is blaming me. Telling me about Richmond and not I bring the biological father of her baby. Who knows what else you fed her with that she suddenly despised me this much? And what were you hoping to gain? Whatever that is, you will end up getting the opposite, I can assure you!'

Romeo who had been silent all these while listening to this exchange asked Jason why he thought Phoebe was capable of doing such a hideous thing and Jason patiently told him all that he had found out while trying to protect his sources.

'You are Romeo and it is a befitting name for you but please tell your Juliet to let that little girl stay alive and healthy for her baby and stop all her schemes because it would get her no where but in deep shit', he ended as he stood and walked out of the house.

Everywhere was quiet after he had left as Romeo kept looking at Phoebe as though she had grown horns.

'I never knew you could stoop this low to get what you are so obsessed with. Even harming a pregnant woman who had lost her memory and is in pain? You couldn't continue the battle after she recovers bit had to fight her now? This is shameless', Romeo spat out.

'Please, please. Keep your views and opinions to yourself. It does not move me!' Phoebe said walking into the bedroom.

'Why would my views move you when you have become as heartless as Jezebel herself!' he said shaking his head sadly.