"Do you expect me to believe that? he never ever mentioned you once to me" I said letting out a loud laugh and used my palm to cover my mouth.

"So you don't want to believe me huh?" she paused and looked at me in disgust then brought out her phone from her handbag.. She kept scrolling through her phone and paused at a point as her face lit up. She then shoved the phone in my face, it was a picture of her and daniel chilling at some beach side, she then brought a card from her handbag which seemed like a wedding invitation card, she handed it over to me, I took it from her and opened the card and it had an inscription which was written"Daniel Rogers weds Andrea Jackson". The wedding was set to five months time.

I was sincerely shocked and I gulped hard, I felt tears forming in my eyes, did daniel try to play me?

"So do you believe me now" she said as she snatched the card from my hands expecting an answer from me, I felt my voice hang and I couldn't say anything, my cheeks became flustered as I tried to hold my tears from falling off.

"Although this is not the real wedding card, we are still processing the card that would sooth us best....but one thing is for sure, the date is set and nothing in this world is changing that, not even you Anne" she then bent over to look at my teary eyes.

B"Poor anne....what are you going to do now??. Anyway I think its a thing in your family to go after business men , your mother went after my dad and her daughter is going after my fiance." She paused and chuckled then placed her fingers on my chin as she moved my chin up so that i could meet her eye level.

"Daniel and I have been betrothed to each other since birth and we even studied together abroad, he is quite good to me too ...So this would be the first and last time I would warn you to stay away from my husband-to-be and stick to your strip shows" she said then let go of my chin and walked out of our house slamming the main door behind her....I just fell to the ground speechless.

"Anne...did you really go for a strip performance?" i heard my brother ask from behind me, he had kept mute since when andrea had come in. Andrea had threatened him not to talk and forced her way into our house when I escorted daniel out.

"Its not what you think i -I needed the money..." I kept stuttering not knowing what to tell him

"You shouldn't have, you just proved what everyone kept saying about our family right, isn't it enough that people kept calling mom an whore, why would you want to put us in a bigger mess??"he gulped hard then continued

"You are the one who kept telling me money wasn't everything but you did it for the money??" . he asked rhetorically then left for his room.

I really didn't know what to say, I just sat on the ground hitting my self on my head and letting out a loud groan, I felt hot tears pouring down my cheeks...

I had told daniel about Andrea Jackson, i even told him her full name and he felt bad for me or so I thought but he looked really sincere, he even promised not to break my trust like what Andrea did, we even made a pinky promise. Only to find out the so called Andrea jackson he promised to be different from was his fiancee, he didn't even tell me he knew her personally. He even had the guts to ask me out despite having a fiancee and the worse thing was that I had already started developing feelings for him, he made my heart flutter.

I sat on the ground through out the night as I cried my eyes out

"Was I just a play thing to daniel?"

"He obviously just wanted to use me despite being aware of the fact that I would get hurt"

"That jerk"I whispered to myself,

Maybe Jasmine was right all along.

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It was a monday morning and I decided not to go to work, I sincerely didn't know how I would face daniel, what if he just told me more lies to cover up for his lies??

He had not texted or called me since probably because he wanted to give me space so that I could think of my answer which was definitely not going to happen.

I woke up really early because I could hardly get any sleep..the feeling of being betrayed was not something I could cope with..

I decided to only visit the ballet school that day and even if the kids were not taking ballet lessons throughout the day I could just watch them take their other lectures.

After my morning exercise I wore a light dress and put some light makeup on to hide the fact that I cried almost throughout the night and was hardly able to get any sleep, I put my ballet clothes in a small bag so that I could change when it was time for my period with the kids.

I had watched the kids through out their other classes ... They were between the ages of four and five so they were easy to control by their teachers.. I informed the person in charge that I wouldn't be heading to the company that day.

It was time for my period with the kids so I changed to my ballet clothes and also told the kids to change to theirs because I decided we would be doing the practical aspect of ballet that day...

We went into the dance studio and I connected my phone to the speaker so the kids could watch me dance then follow my steps...

I started dancing and became too engrossed in the dancing that I didn't notice the kids had stopped watching me dance and started looking elsewhere....I kept on dancing and twirling in the air until someone stopped the music.

I looked around only to find daniel beside the speaker, he then motioned for the kids to leave us alone in the studio and they ran out happily, some of them even gave me a sheepish smile while leaving the studio.

"Who do you think you are to interrupt my class" I said as I took a towel from behind the speaker to clean my neck, because I was sweating profusely .

"You didn't come to work today and I felt you will be here, by the way you dance really beautifully, I have been watching you for over five minutes now." he said and began to move closer to me.

"Stop right there.....just stop it....I really don't want to have anything to do with you and please wait for my resignation letter, I would make sure I shove it in your face"

"Why are you suddenly acting this way? Did I do something wrong??" he asked...and the fact that he kept on acting sincere really enraged me more than ever before, my eyes became teary and I hit him hard on the face and pulled him by the two sides of the jacket as I dragged him closer to myself.

B"I must have being nothing more than a toy to you....you must have had so much fun trying to deceive me."

"What are you talking about anne" he asked with confusion written all over his face.

"Pls just stop pretending....you are engaged to Andrea and you wanted to two time me huh? You pretended not to know who Andrea was when I told you about her only for me to find out she is your fiancee.....You even had the guts to ask me out , you really toyed with my feelings daniel, the worst thing of all is that I have already started having feelings for a jerk like you. You should have just let me be." I said frustrated as tears kept dropping from my eyes. I wanted to vent my anger on him.

"Did Andrea come to meet you?" He asked as he slowly pulled my hands from his jacket's collar and held it in his palm, I didn't know what to say and just nodded in pain. I could feel my whole body shiver.

"Listen ....I didn't mean to keep it from you, I don't love andrea , I don't know what she told you but the only reason our family is trying to get us married is because our families have been friends for about thirty years now and they formed a kind of business partnership for that long, that's why we were betrothed from birth. Both my family and her family thinks we would build a stronger partnership if we were married but trust me i'm doing my possible best to break away from this engagement. You wouldn't have wanted anything to do with me if I had told you andrea was my fiancee, you have to trust me Anne, I really love you alot." he said as he bent over to look at my face with my hands still in his palms.

"Don't give me that crap....you are about to be married for goodness sake and you still chose to flirt with me. All you men do is lie. " I said then paused as I wiped my tears with the back of my palm, I had taken my hands out of his.

"You know what....just get out of here... Get the hell out of here daniel" I yelled as I kept pushing him out of the studio with all the strength I had left in me.