Chapter 1

 

'Get your hands off me!' Poppy yelled.

Steven took a breath as he stepped away from Poppy, releasing her from his hold.

'Poppy, I don't understand. You won't see or speak to me, and now I see you with some random guy in the bar, the bar that we used to go to together! You are not playing fair!'

'Are you joking? You have a right nerve,' Poppy laughed bitterly. 'I don't owe you any fairness, not after what you've done to me.'

'You never let me explain,' he pleaded in frustration.

'You must take me for a fool. What is there to explain? I saw what you did with my own eyes!' She remembered the painful vision of Steven and her flatmate wrapped up in a passionate embrace. Steven, her new boyfriend whom she had thought was so wonderful - and whom she had believed up till the terrible incident that she had been falling in love with.

But she saw now that all of her thoughts and feelings had been based on an illusion of what and whom she had believed Steven to be. She had thought him to be sexy, charming and loyal, when in fact behind his handsome exterior was hiding nothing more than a calculating womaniser.