Chapter 59: The Desirable Stranger

'If you are not in love with Jason, then whatever your foolish ex boyfriend has to reveal about you should not affect you at all. Jason was not expecting you not to have had a past now, was he?'

'No. But Richard, that's the fool's name. He cooked up the story'.

'Really? Then why are you so bothered?'

'It is because the way he said it, he nearly convinced even me. He twisted the whole story to favour him'.

'You are not making much sense. Maybe you should tell me everything'.

'We met when we were still teenagers. I fell in love with him and we grew on each other or so I thought.

After high school, we started co habiting. He didn't have a job and was not really very brilliant at school and so did not want to further his studies. I wanted to,very much. I started working and enrolled part time.

He stayed home and I thought nothing of it when he would come home and say that he had gone round but couldn't find a job.

I footed his bills,bought all the clothes he wore and the food he ate. Ever