It felt like he was sucking out her soul. No man had ever had that effect on her, but she also never allowed anyone so close to her that he could kiss her and do whatever he liked to her. Something about this man made him different from others. Even Ricky Henderson whose relationship with her went way back gave her a null reaction.

But this man, he had just appeared in her life and told her she had retrenched him, over hundreds or maybe thousands of non-performers and low performers ...