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    Bella wasn’t sure how she’d left that office, or
how she’d made it back home. All she knew was that she was standing inside her
living room, staring into space and wondering how things had just gone from bad
to worse.
    Seeing Jason again, coming face to face with his
frosty thirst for revenge – she hadn’t exactly foreseen that when she’d
woken up that morning.
    She had to remember that she had only a certain
number of hours in which to make her decision. The bastard! His misplaced
desire to make her suffer in some way for the past was going to cost her more
than she ever dreamed. In her heart, she knew she should tell him to go to
hell. But could she pay the ensuing price?
    “Bella? Is that you?”
    Bella turned sharply, dashing the tears from her
cheeks and pasting a smile on her lips as she faced the woman who’d just walked
into the living room.
    “Hello, mom,” she said, and hoped she sounded
normal, and she moved forward to embrace her mother.
    “You’re back so early. Is anything wrong, are you
unwell?” the older woman asked with concern. Katy Turner was still a very
beautiful woman, but a frail one ever since she’d had to fight off cancer for a
whole year. Now, she still had several treatments to go before she could be in
the clear. Treatments Bella had to make sure were paid for.
    Bella swallowed down a sigh, and then pulled back
to look into her mother’s face. “I had a meeting earlier, mom. It really took a
lot out of me. I decided to come home instead to rest…and think.” She patted
the only slightly wrinkled cheeks of her mother with tenderness. “Or maybe I’ll
just hang out with you. What are you up to?”
    Katy Turner smiled, not really fooled by her
daughter’s bright face and words. But she decided not to push. “I was just
about to go into the garden, dear. My green fingers have been itching all
morning to put those seeds in. It’s a few days early, but…”
    Bella wrapped an arm around her mother’s waist. “I
think it’s a great idea, mom. Let’s grab some gloves and an apron.” That, would
at least, take her mind off her immediate problems. When her mother had walked
in and Bella had seen her, with her graying blonde hair only just growing out
after all that chemotherapy…she’d known what her answer to him was going to be.
If she had only herself to worry about, then she’d have told him where to stick
his filthy proposition. But there was her mother, whose expensive medical bills
had to be seen to, among other things. Bella thought of facing Jason again the
next day with her answer – and an involuntary shudder passed through her.
Only heaven knew what lay in store…
     
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    "So you actually came."
    The triumph, the scorn that laced
his words was enough to make her want to turn right back around and leave. But
she stayed still in the middle of his expansive, ultra-modern office. She’d
been shown in just a minute ago, and her heart hadn’t stopped pounding in confusion,
anger, and helplessness. Bella knew what she had to do, but it was the how that worried her…
    "Yes, I came," she said
through gritted teeth, "but only to see if I could talk some sense into
you one last time. Jason..."
    "No begging, Bella," he
said coldly, face set in stone now as he rose to his feet in irritation.
"It didn't work yesterday; it certainly won't work now. I'm afraid
absolutely nothing could possibly convince me to change my mind."
    Bella felt tears of anger sting the
back of her eyes, choking her throat. "Why are you doing this, Jason, when
you can have any woman you want?"
    "Ahh, but that’s not true, is
it Bella?”, he declared huskily, moving forward to where she stood still as a
pillar of salt. “I couldn’t have you.”
    Bella forced herself not to flinch
when he placed himself behind her, his hands falling heavily on her shoulders
as he whispered in her ear, "A man never really gets over his first love,
you know. That first youthful, erotic