Kate woke up to a warm chest and steady heartbeat against her cheek. She smiled and pulled herself and looked at Jay fast asleep next to her, one hand under his head and the other loosely hung around her waist.

She looked at the ring on her finger. It was real now. This man was hers for this lifetime. If it was up to her she would have him in every lifetime just to bask in the glory of his love.

"Don't get blinded by it" Jayson said as he stretched and yawned.

Kate thrust her hand away and smacked him across his chest.

"No no carry on. It gives me great pleasure to know that you are satisfied with the ring."

Kate simply shook her head as she slid out of the bed.

She could feel Jayson's eyes on her as she grabbed his shirt and threw it on top her bra and underpants.

"I have to go to work today" Kate said as she pouted.

"Call in sick" Jayson grinned

"Not everyone has the perks of being the CEO" Kate rolled her eyes.

Kate hurriedly showered and just as she was about to step out the bathroom, an idea struck her mind. It was a bit bold for herself and she was a taken aback but she smiled just thinking about Jayson's reaction. She came out of the room and her eyes looked at the clock. She still had good 45 minutes before she had to be at the museum.

She noticed Jayson straighten up as she entered the room with a towel wrapped around her and her hair piled on her head in a bun. She gulped and threw caution to the wind. She knew she was about to play with fire.

She turned and faced the closet double door which was on the opposite side of the bed. She pulled open the doors and left it open as she stepped inside. She pulled the pin out of her hair and let her hair cascade down her back. She heard Jayson shift and his foot hit the floor.

Without a second thought she pulled the towel and it dropped around her ankles and she heard Jayson'a sharp intake of breath.

Jayson almost groaned when he saw the towel drop and her soft slender body was exposed to his eyes. All the curves that he knew like the back of his hand were beckoning him. He closed his eyes and took deep breathes.

Kate reached for her lingerie drawer and rather than opting for her normal pair of underpants, she took out a black lacy thong and slipped it on followed by a black bra. She put on her stockings, rolling them on her shapely legs as she drew them up.

She was about to reach for the grey dress she had decided to wear today when she felt Jayson collide into her. Before she knew she was at the opposite side of the closet, pushed up against the wall. Jayson had his forehead pressed against hers, his breathing fast and shallow.

"Kate..." He whispered and his eyes bored into hers. They were a deep emerald green now. Kate loved how his eyes got a shade darker.

Jayson was barely hanging onto his control by a thread. It would snap any minute.

"You start praying that these two months that are left, don't end soon." Jayson whispered and backed away from her. Kate let go a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Fucking cold showers" Jayson cursed as he headed for the bathroom.

Kate got dressed and went downstairs and saw that the housekeeper had already prepared the breakfast. She finished her breakfast in fifteen minutes. Jayson came down, dressed in a three piece business suit, with his hair slicked back. He smirked at Kate as he fixed his cufflinks.

"I am running late" Kate said as she stopped stripping her fiancée naked in her head.

"Peter is downstairs, waiting. He will drop you off. Have a good day at work love" Jayson said as he leaned in and kissed her on her temple, his cologne assaulting her senses.

Kate simply nodded and stumbled out of the penthouse.

Jayson shook his head to clear his thoughts.

"We are going to spontaneously combust" Jayson muttered as he poured himself a cup of coffee.

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"There you go sweety. Take it easy" Cynthia Campbell said as she helped her daughter settle into bed.

Stella was discharged late this morning and was now being helped by her overtly fussy mother in to her bed.

"Mother, I am fine" Stella said as she pulled the covers up and away from her mother's flustering hands.

"Look at your pretty face darling. Thst is a nasty bruise. Take care when you are driving baby" Cynthia said as she settled at the foot of the bed.

"Mother, please I am fine"

"Oh dear don't you say that. You have any clue how worried I was? Thank god for Jayson who called your father, he said you had tried reaching out to us. God bless his soul" Cynthia chattered on in her southern drawl though she had been living in NYC ever since she got married to Andrew Campbell.

Stella smiled at the mention of Jayson's name.

"I did wish things would have happened between you two but he always took you as a little sister but thank heavens our darling Kate has him by her side. That poor girl went through so much and then your father made her suffer more. Serves us right that she no longer contacts us but I am happy and thank god that she has a man like Jayson by her side"

Stella gritted her teeth. Her mother had tendency to chatter away without thinking and she was hare brained.

"Mother leave please" Stella said in a controlled voice.

"Oh dear, I should be going. I do have an appointment at the saloon. You take rest dear" Cynthia got up and scurried out of the room.

Stella almost saw red. Jayson was not that stammering whore's man. He was her and only hers. Stella grabbed the remote and turned on the TV.

She flicked through the channels and she stopped when she saw Jayson addressing a crowd.

It was normal for him to be on the TV and Stella decided to admire him but when she focused on the headlines, her blood boiled.

The newsflash read "

"What the fuck?" Stella whispered as she watched the news coverage.

Jayson was surrounded by a group of reporters. He had his poker face on and his green eyes were covered with his Raybans.

"Mr. Reynolds we got to know this morning that you got engaged last night? What about the previous time this same news made rounds in the media?" One of the reporters yelled.

"Last time it was all a big misunderstanding and things got blown out of proportion. I had never proposed to Ms. Arquette"

"So it is true that you are now engaged with the love of your life?" The other reported asked.

"Yes. Katherine and I are engaged to be married soon. We will be doing interviews for various magazines but till then I request privacy for myself and my friends and family so that we can celebrate this occasion in peace" Jayson said and turned around from the cameras as his bodyguards escorted him towards his car, the other questions yelled by the reporters falling on deaf ears.

Stella got up from the bed. She hurled a vase at the screen and then pulled out the wires from the socket.

"NOOO NOOOO" Stella shrieked as she pulled her hair.

She didn't have time now. She had to remove Kate from his life and she had to do it now.

---------------------------------------------------

Kate frowned as she heard yelling from the corridor outside her small office which at the moment was completely flooded with the new shipment of artwork that came in.

Kate pulled open the door to see what the commotion was about outside.

She saw Stella running towards her room with the receptionist hot on her heels yelling at her to stop.

"YOU BITCH!" Stella roared and pushed Kate back into her office. Kate stumbled back but grabbed the desk and stabilized herself.

"Kate, I tried to stop her but she---"

"SHUT UP! YOU ARE SO ANNOYING" Stella snarled as she pulled out a revolver from her pocket and pointed it at the receptionist.