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Jessica reached up and gently touched his cheeks as he deepened the kiss, letting his fingers rest at the back of her neck and the other on her hips. She kissed him back slowly at first, then gradually with more need and passion.

She tasted him and it ignited a fire in her soul. When she prayed the kiss should last forever despite the shock she was still in, he broke the kiss but didn't release her. Instead, he embraced her and she laid her head on his chest. She smiled at his sudden behaviour but when the thought of maybe because he was drunk which made him get turned on like this popped into her head, the smile disappeared.

She broke the hug and decided to help him upstairs to take a rest. Whatever happened that made him dash out of the house and come back drunk will be discussed tomorrow. She called her mother to inform her that she would not be coming home tonight and will spend the night at Drake's place.

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Within five years of the establishment of Solar Light Organizations Limited, it had caught up with companies, home owners and served over hundred million customers.

Eduardo was reeling from the remarkable success the company had chalked up in the continent. Solar Light was also expanding to neighbouring continents which meant the more money he got. Whenever he was in the country, he would travel across the length and breadth of the country in his private jet.

During all those times he enjoyed himself without not thinking or letting anyone distract him apart from his parents, but now he couldn't think straight because of one woman he had been in search of. Did she play him and then run off when she was satisfied. No, Carissa would never do that, he said to himself.

As he drove towards town he kept looking from his left to his right just in case he caught a glimpse of her shadow. He was very sad. It's been a week since he last saw her and his heart was aching deeply. From time to time, he would get down and give her description to people asking if they saw someone like that.

That went on for hours until he got to the lucky old man who claims he knows someone of such who just moved into the community. Eduardo took the directions from him to their house and sped off to that location.

He was surprised to see a wrecked house instead of an embellished apartment. But what could he say, she was living with a drunkard anyway. Slowly, he strode towards the house shuddering fiercely without any reason. He knocked on the wooden door and waited for someone to open it up.

After some few more knocks and this time louder, he heard the voice of someone yelling from inside. He sighed In relief as he recognized the voice of Belinda.

"Why are you knocking so loud.." she stopped halfway in her sentence when she noticed who had come. A weird smile materialised on her face which caught the attention of Eduardo but said nothing since he was not here for her but someone else.

"Good evening madam, is Carissa home."

"No, she went out and will be back in a minute. But you can wait for her if you want." she suggested. Eduardo smirked and thought "I would surely wait for her even if the end of the world would come now".

Later the minute turned into minutes and almost an hour when the door opened and there came in the lady he had been looking all across the country for. She gasped in surprise and they just stood there staring at each other till he broke the silence.

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Drake woke up with a terrible headache and his eyes seemed too heavy for him to open. He sat down on the bed as memories of last night came flashing back into his mind. How he had dashed out of the house because of the call, how he got drunk with a bartender advising him and how he got rescued by Santo from who knows what could have happened.

The door to his room opened and Jessica came in with a tray in hand and a jug of water with some pills beside it. He took it and gulped it down without even looking at her even though he could feel her gaze fixated on him.

Finally unable to hold it in anymore, she asked "What happened to you last night? What was the call about? You made me worried there."

"Nothing." was all he could say as he didn't know how to go about it to her. He didn't want to say something that would hurt her feelings, but he can't hold his in anymore.

"Am I the first man you've ever been with." he asked looking deep into her eyes.

"Why are you asking me that?" she asked, feeling hurt by his question.

"Just answer my question." he said coldly, in order to force her to answer it.

"No, I've never been with any man. I have never thought about it, and never did I think I could even think of a man let alone be with one. Someone would ask me why, and I would give that answer truthfully. All the men that proposed to me claimed they loved me because of my father's money and they only fell for me because of my beauty. I had once thought I had met Mr. Right, but was rather being deceived as I later found out that he was married and had kids.

Back in highschool, I had been proposed to by different men, all saying they will wait till I complete or graduate then marry me, but that also I found out they did to many girls who end up being impregnated by them. Someone might think I don't have taste for men, but no, they are wrong. I do have a taste for men but not just any kind of man, but the one who will love me for who I am, what I am and who I will become. And I found those things in you, that's why I gave myself to you. For you to have your own and keep me, I just hope you will influence me in the right way, not the worst."she said as tears began to form in her eyes.

Drake stood up from his side of the bed, and went towards hers. He took her hand, pulled her up and wrapped his arms around her, forgetting about who or what was trying to come their way, for he surely knew that this woman was the one who he had been waiting for.

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