Chapter 66: Chapter 66

Nancy flew to her quarters, not wanting nor waiting to chat with Mrs. Potts her good friend.

She did not even remember to wish her a good night.

Only one word kept ringing in her ears.

'Pregnant! Pregnant! Pregnant! Preg...'

She could not understand why she was feeling so restless and tearful. Afterall she was pregnant herself and would be due in about five months. So why was she so upset about someone else's pregnancy?

She could not deny it. She knew the reason the news bothered her. It bothered her because of the involvement Jason. The father of the baby was her problem because she had foolishly fallen in love with him and with the recent developments between them, she had hoped that he was beginning to like her as well but his ex wife was always with him and from the look of things,Jason liked working and going out with Rebecca his ex wife. She would not be surprised if they had become intimate and would soon remarry.

She had been consoling herself with the thought that it could just be business and nothing else like Jason had taken the pains to tell her.

At that time, she had pretended not to care what they did with each other behind close doors and had told him so but his reassurances that it was just business and how he acts as though her touch irritated him on some occasions when they thought no one was watching had gladdened her heart and given her hope, fool that she was.

Now, this! She knew that Jason was an honourable man and would do right by Phoebe and Nancy knew that if he did anything less, he would fall from the high pedestal she had placed him but that would also leave her with a broken heart!

But she was not selfish enough to want what happened to her to happen to another. She knew the pain and humiliation, she had had to go through but putting someone else through that was not going to be because of her of she could help it.

Jason had cared for her as though it was his baby she was going to have, it hurt to think how he would care for the woman who was really carrying his own baby.

She did not think that she could endure seeing them together and yet she would not want him to abandon Phoebe and knew that Jason did not have it in him to abandon Phoebe and definitely not in such a vulnerable condition.

So, she was no t going to stick around and see how they got married. She was going to leave the house and after a few months of working, maybe till her baby was born, she would not go back to the company after her maternity leave but look for a job else where.

She just must have been jinxed

She was not meant to find true love and be truely happy.

Having decided on moving, she started looking for possible places that would be good enough for her to dwell comfortably with her child.

She knew it was yet too early but she felt that the earlier she started looking, the better. And if she got what she was looking for, the right kind of place, well then, she would not mind moving into the place immediately. Afterall, what was the use procrastinating? When her heartbreak would endanger her health and that of her baby once she kept being anxious and bothered about the activities near her?

After tossing and turning, she wanted to go for a dip in the pool to help her sleep but she was scared that she would meet Jason there and the pool encounter would be repeated and she just couldn't risk that happening again, not with the present developments and she could not possibly ask him what he was doing in the pool, afterall, it was his house and he had all the right in the world to his pool.

After the last encounter, Jason had apologised profusely but had been sincere to tell her that he could not deny the fact that he was attracted to her and wanted her but that had not been the word she was looking for.

The other person she had loved in the past had just wanted her body and when he got it, could not stick around to share the responsibilities of the consequences of their lust with her.

He abandoned her to care for herself and her baby because she refused to abort the baby and continue to be his bed mate.

She was happy that she was rid of such a nuisance and her baby was better off without such a father anyways.

Then how could she put herself in such a similar position again?.

The jewelry Jason had bought to placate and show her his interest was not accepted.

She had told him what to do with the expensive gold and diamond necklace.

'I cannot be bought with money, Jason. I am not a prostitute. And I do not need your money nor your Jewelry'.

'Then what do you want from me? You had said you didn't want to be my toy, but I can assure you that that was not what I had in mind'.

Nancy of course could not tell him what she wanted from him if he was daft enough not to realise it for himself.

'Then what do you have in mind?' she asked, her heart beating rapidly, thinking that he was going to say that he loved her and that it was possible they would get into a permanent relationship like marriage.

'I will keep you satisfied in everyway. You only need to ask me whatever you want. Provided it is within my capability, you shall have it and your child would have a father figure and live a secured life' he said feeling that she could not possibly reject such an offer.

She looked away and he could have sworn that he saw tears in her eyes before her lashes his them. He assumed they must be years of joy and was expecting a favourable response. His mind already making plans of how they would live.

'I cannot be your mistress, Jason I am sorry. I tried that once and see where it got me?

Once the man found I was pregnant, he asked me to abort it, and when I refused be ause I reminded him that there was no need for that since we were going to get married in any case, he abandoned me but not before he accused me of plotting to trap him with my pregnancy and informing me with great merriment that it was good while it lasted but that he couldn't continue with me since he already had a wife whom he loved dearly and four adorable children. He was just having his fun with me, you see while professing love to me and promising me marriage.

He also gave me lots of gifts and jewelry because he was rich. Though his money was not what I had been after but his love.

So please, take your jewelry and give to one of your numerous lovers, because I cannot be one of them or you sell it and give the money to charity. They will appreciate it more. I do not want it. And please do not add to my troubles, I have enough as it is'.

This discussion had taken place one day on their way to work. Jason had specially asked her to make sure she waited for him so that they could go together and by the time she was through with her speech, he had driven into the company's premises. She opened the door and walked up into the building without a backward glance and she knew that Jason must have been looking after her, shocked that anyone could reject him.

She had not spoken to him since then except at the office to tell him his schedule and answer his questions until she decided she wanted to make some suggestions concerning some issues about the office and had stumbled into Phoebe's pregnancy announcement.

She felt that she had thought enough, forcing herself to stay away from the pool, she soon fell into a troubled sleep.