Chapter 29: Getting limatized


    Another week rolled by but Nancy did not go to live in Jason''s staff quarters. She had expected him to


    broach the topic with her again but he did not. It was almost as though he did not care anymore.


    She was growing used to her job and duties and carrying them out effectively and effortlessly and even


    Jason had to admit that there was no need for Anna to continue coaching her.


    Nancy had got enough corporate clothes for the office and was looking more attractive and the men in


    the office had started giving her the eye. Jason saw all this and though he thought in passing that she


    was really beautiful and had a great shape, he felt no other emotion. He had killed any emotion he had


    for the opposite sex and took his pleasure where he found it. He could not risk his hear getting broken


    again.


    Nancy was in the office one day and she remembered what had bothered her for sometime. She


    wondered if Anna would know about it.


    ''Anna, why is Mr. Campbell still unmarried?''


    Anna was taken unawares and did not know how to answer the question.


    ''Why do you want to know?''


    ''Well for one, he was s handsome and Roch and not really a bully though stubborn. I would have


    expected him to have a wife and children''.


    ''Well, you must not let on that I told you.Promise?''


    ''Promise'', Nancy said thinking to herself that she had known all the while that there was a story behind


    his unmarried state.


    ''Well he was married to a very beautiful model called Reba. Their marriage I heard was in the


    magazines for months afterwards. It was a reallyvish affair.


    Mr. Campbell really loved her, giving her everything and more. It was a shock to us when the rumour


    started going round that Reba had run of with Mr. Campbell''s best friend Terry.


    He was so devastated that he did note to the office for almost three months. And when he did, he


    was a ghost of his former self. He is only started to recover fully but since then, he did not allow himself


    get too close to any woman.


    His wife also wiped their joint ount clean as well as the one he personally opened for her. If his


    sister had note to be with him,he might have died. It was a double betrayal, you know. The wife he


    loved dearly and his best friend who he trusted with everything. No one talks about his failed marriage


    and that was why I left that day you mention something like that to him when he was talking about your


    amodation''. Anna exined.


    Nancy could see now. She could also see why he felt that he had to protect her. They had alot in


    word wife is said, reminding him of his own wife''s betrayal. And she had been betrayed as well nit by


    her husband but by a man she thought she was engaged to and with who she would soon get married.


    She didn''t want to think about Robert. She always felt like wringing his neck. She wanted to make him


    suffer. It did not trouble her that he was the father of her unborn child. She understood perfectly his


    pain. And his was even a double barrelled one. His wife and his most trusted best friend. It was a


    miracle he survived the hurt and betrayal.


    ''A penny for them?'' Anna asked. She had been watching Nancy and had seen different emotions flick


    across her face. It was evident that she was deep in thought. What she had just heard must have


    affected her and why not? What woman in their right senses would leave Mr. Campbell for anyone


    else? Well everyone had their preferences and who was she to judge?


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    ''They are not worth a penny, I assure you'', Nancy said as she realised Anna was referring to her being


    lost in thought after listening to her narration. And indeed the thought of Robert was not worth anyone''s


    hard earned penny. He was just an inhuman viin. Lower than the lowest animal alive. Even then,it


    was not enough to qualify his bestiary nature.


    Nancy decided that she was going to tell her boss that she was ready to take up his offer of the


    quarters.


    But Campbell did note back to the office that day. Sheyer heard that he had travelled for a


    business sealed and would not be back for about three days.


    She did not think that she would be hurt but she was. She was supposed to be his personal secretary


    and he had gone on such a trip without telling her and she who was suppose to let others know of her


    boss'' appointments and trips was thest person to know of it.


    She seethed. She could not understand her feelings. Why was it hurting her so much? She nned to


    give her boss a piece of her mind when he came home. He would have to exin her job description to


    her again do that she is sure if she was there as a figure head or as his personal secretary.


    The three days went by still,there was no sign of the boss. Nancy was getting really impatient and


    worried.


    She had tried calling him but he wouldn''t pick her calls and she didn''t know what to make of it. Yet


    others in the office seemed to be having easy ess to him.


    He came back after a week. And he looked so handsome that Nancy could not believe that he had


    gone on a business trip. Business trips were supposed to be stressful but no part of his body shoed


    any sign of stress. He seemed to havee back from a vacation and if her suspicion was true, then it


    must have been with a beautifuldy. No other sort wouldmand such a man''s attention.