Chapter 68: Chapter 68

Anna allowed her to cry to her heart"s content.

'Let it out. It is better that way than bottling it up', she said as she allowed her to cry her heart out.

Nancy calmed later and wiped her eyes.

'I am really sorry. I am normally not such a nuisance', she apologised.

'It is good to let out your emotions once in a while because it is not too good bottling them up all the time. Now will you tell me what this is all about? And I need the truth. Don't tell me it is about your baby's father because I will not buy it. I know it had something to do with Jason. I am not a fool'.

'But how could it be about Jason? What do you mean?' Nancy hedged.

'I am your friend Nancy. At least I hope I am because I consider you to be my friend. Don't take me for a fool.Tell me what our boss has done that has troubled you this much. You know of course that your confidence is safe with me'.

'He had gone and got one of his mistresses pregnant', Nancy blurted.

Anna could see. But she kept quiet so that Nancy could say more but Nancy kept quiet thinking that she must have said too much.

'How does it affect you that one of Mr. Campbell's lovers is pregnant for him? Are you in love with him?'

'How can I be in love with him when I am pregnant for another despite the fact that the fool abandoned me?' Nancy asked still hedging.

So tell me what exactly is bothering you about that person's pregnancy. Remember that a problem shared is already half solved'.

'Rodney and I met when I was still in a nursing school. I was not taken in by him at first because he appeared too smooth. I wish now that I had listened to my head and heeded the first impression that I had of him.

He didn't relent. He refused to accept 'No' for an answer and pursued me relentlessly.

Some of my friends in college thought that I was being a snub and that I should give him a chance.

What harm could it possibly cause? I thought to myself and accepted to go out on a date with him.

One date led to another and he was so charming and attentive that I started feeling that he was not as bad as I had previously imagined'.

Anna nodded. She knew the feeling. She had been there for three times and had suffered for her foolishness. She did not want to interrupt Nancy but she already knew where she was going. She could feel her pain and felt sorry for her.

'My likeness turned to love. He lavished me with gifts. He was very generous. He made sure I lacked for nothing and the other girls were jealous. They tried to get his attention but he had eyes only for me, or so I thought at the time.

I thought that he loved me as well. He was really a great actor. He kept professing his love and undying attention for me. He proposed to me and I accepted be ause by then, I was crazy in love with him.

I wanted to make our wedding night special, so I told him that he would have to be patient about being intimate with me, since I was still a virgin and I was saving for out wedding night.

He laughed and told me that was all okay but a little old fashioned. He said that making love now or our wedding night would not change anything. Not his love for me nor his desire to be with me always but that it would rather draw us closer together.

I was still sceptical but he managed to alley my fears and told me that he was glad I was still a virgin but that if I sincerely loved him, then why was there so much distance between us and that he had been patient enough to wait for me for the several months it had taken him to woo me.

He was persistent and I started feeling that I was being selfish and thinking only about myself.

I gave in and I thought it was the most wonderful experience. Not because of his prowess, it was not that great but I attributed it to fear and the pain of the first time, but because I ft that I had united with the person I loved and who loved me too.

After that first time, he could barely leave me alone. I felt flattered and cherished.

I soon started having morning sickness and found out that I was pregnant. I was very happy and glad that it happened just after I had graduated from nursing school and got a job in a hospital.

I loved my job very much but my ill health kept me at home and when I shared the happy news with Rodney, thinking that he would be filled with euphoria like I was, I was shocked when he asked me to abort the baby.

I could not believe my ears.

He couldn't be serious. But he was. I tried convincing him to let us keep it since we were going to get married anyway,the only difference being that we would have to perform the ceremony earlier.

He threatened to leave me if I didn't abort the baby and left a huge sum of money for the abortion.

When I didn't comply, he revelled to me that he wanted nothing more to do with him and that he didn't want me coming in between he and his wife.

I thought I had not heard him clearly.

'Your wife?' I asked and he confirmed it.

'I have a wife whom I love very much and four wonderful children. I was with you for the fun of it and it was great while it lasted. Now we have to go our separate ways'.

'What about the baby?' I asked grasping at straws and not knowing what to do or what I wanted from a cheat like him.

'You can do whatever you please with him. I do not care. I have enough of my own and under no circumstance must you contact me again!'

He stormed out of the house and that was the last I saw or heard from him.

I tried to solicit the help of some of his friends who knew we were dating and no help was forth coming from them. He must have warned them not to assist me and they did not want to invite his wrath.

Some even told me plainly that they thought that I was aware that he was married but was dating him for his money. Can you imagine that?'

I saw hell. Lived on a hell hole because I had to quit my job and move away to hide my condition from my parents, especially my over observant mother.

I didn't want to shame them by causing people to refer to them as the parents of that morally lose woman.

I could not get any jobs and was wondering what to do,thinking that I may have made a bad decision to abort the baby.

I felt defeated and wanted to kill myself but I was a coward and then I decided to take the easy way out.

I unconsciously started walking into the road. And got hit by a car. Luckily the driver stopped and rushed me to the hospital. That was how I met Jason be ause he was the one who cause my accident,he offered to take care of my needs like job, accommodation and so on.

I have grown to like him quite alot and have never been jealous of his female friends and lovers.

Till his ex-wife started making me feel uneasy and now this! Phoebe being Pregnant was the last straw'. Nancy said ending her narrative.