Chapter 41: A Sharp Comeback


    ''If you are so sure that he is yours, why are you standing here speaking to me? If you have an issue we


    hy don''t you discuss it with your lover, why involve me?''


    Phoebe was shocked at what Nancy had said. She was right but that only served to incense her


    further.


    ''Jason is a very kind and generous man and most times, too trusting and I know the likes of you. You


    want to reap where you have not shown. Just a few days after moving into these quarters, you are


    already sharing breakfast with him and and soon, you would want to move into the main building.


    Gradually warming your way into his life but I warn you that I shall not allow that to happen. So you


    better stay in your limit and face your work as a secretary and not get any funny ideas because if you


    do, you do not know what I am capable of doing. If you sincerely do not have any such intentions


    towards him, then move out and find another apartment so that I do not show you the dark side of me'',


    She threatened.


    Nancy was so shocked that before she could think of any other thing to say to her, she had stormed off.


    Nancy wanted to go after her and tell her that she got it all wrong and that there was nothing between


    her and her boss but a professional rtionship and that she was not interested in any other


    rtionship with him for that matter but she restrained herself.


    ''I do not owe her any exnation. If she does not know how to keep her so - called fiance, then that is


    her business and not mine. I shan''t lose sleep over the fact that my presence here is making her feel


    insecure. If she is notfortable with my presence here, then she should discuss it with Mr. Campbell


    and I will willingly leave if he asked me to. Apart from that, nobody was going to drive me from the


    quarters my boss has given me except I decide to move out of my own ord''. She thought to herself.


    Phoebe on the other hand was fuming


    imagine that non entity speaking to her that way. She couldn''t me her though. Jason was


    responsible for the girl''s attitude to her.


    She just didn''t know what to do. To go steady with Steven and encourage him would be epting


    defeat and she was not going to do that. She had been able to show Richard the stuff she was made


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    of, a tough stuff. He had thought that she would not survive without him but he had been wrong and


    she wanted him to see how wrong he had been and that she had done better than him when he found


    her name linked with such a famous man as Jason Campbell in the papers. She wanted him to die of


    shame.


    As she came round,preparing to go back to her apartment so that she could go out with any of her


    male friends who was avable, she saw Jasoning in.


    She decided to wait for him.


    ''Phoebe, you are still here?'' he asked as he got to her. Sometimes rather than drive,he preferred to


    walk. It was a form of exercise to him. He wanted to remain fit. It was a hobby he had adopted since he


    recovered from Reba''s betrayal and was not ready to give it up.


    These days though, he was walking out more because of the attraction he had started feeling towards


    Nancy. She was everything that Reba was not ande to think of it,they had more than their love


    for their job inmon.


    They both had been betrayed by the people they loved but had survived in spite of that. So, Nancy was


    a survivor just like him.


    True,he had been fed up with life at first and had wanted to end it all, albert in a cowardly way through


    alcohol but he had pulled through just like Nancy who had also tried to end her life by walking into his


    oning car but she had also been able to move on with her life but she was pregnant and he knew


    that that singr fact would always remind Nancy of her love and she may never forget the viin


    enough to trust and love another. Though it was not his business if she did not.


    She had not told him what had really transpired but she didn''t need to. He could deduce it all.


    He had sworn off women and so could not encourage this attraction. It had no future at all. He was not


    ready to go into a rtionship where the feelings was not mutual. He had done that in the past and it


    had nearly destroyed him. Not anymore. So this attraction won''t be encouraged at all.


    Therefore to ensure that does not happen, he decided to go to a luncheon with Phoebe and thank


    goodness he found her.


    ''You are not happy about the fact that I am still around? You do not have to be afraid or think that I


    have be clingy. I just wanted to get to know your secretary better. So I went to have a chat with


    her. As a matter of fact, I am just from her quarters. I hadn''t expected to see you. I thought you went


    out with some friends''. She said trying to dispel any suspicion he may have about her.


    ''Oh, I wasn''t thinking along those lines. How could you be clingy when you can have your pick of


    the men in your life and anyways, we have both been keeping our agreement to have a no strings


    attached rtionship. No Phoebe, I was not thinking that'', Jason said and Phoebe seethed but forced a


    smile to her lips.


    Jason continued, ''I am d you are getting to know Nancy better'', Phoebe bit her tongue. She felt that


    she was going to explode if she heard that girl''s name one more time but she kept the smile pasted on


    her face but it was bing increasingly difficult to keep it up.


    ''I am happy though that you are still here because I had wanted to call you. I would like for you to


    apany me to a luncheon. Would you like to be mypanion or do you have other


    Phoebe could not believe her ears. It had been long that Jason had taken her out on any social


    gathering and he had not thrown any himself as well since that first time they met. This was indeed


    great news.


    The smile that spread through her face was genuine this time.


    ''Of course!'' she blurted out and thinking that she sounded too eager, amended, ''I shall not mind being


    yourpanion for the luncheon, if you are sure''.


    ''I am. Why else would I be asking you if I weren''t? It is for tomorrow Sunday''.


    ''So soon, why hadn''t you informed me earlier?


    ''What? You are already engaged for tomorrow?'' he asked, thinking of calling up another female


    ''Not exactly. I just thought you should have told me about this earlier so that I could get a befitting dress


    for the asion''. She pouted.


    Jason thought that women could not do without these things. They were all the same.


    ''It is not taking ce early in the morning. It will take ce around 2pm. Do you could get whatever you


    need from now till then. Come in and I''ll make out a cheque out to you. It escaped my memory and I


    have just remembered about it because I met one of my acquitance who reminded me a d that is why I


    am back this early. Doe in for the cheque. I trust you to look your absolute best''.