I was so happy I could almost cry. I knew I loved him more than my mother did, she had changed to a completely different person from the one who married Steve, the woman I used to know.

Now she was just after his money. I was absolutely swelling with love and lust for him at that moment, seeing that he had recognised my feelings and even returned them. He carried me into his room and I felt like a bride being carried over the threshold.

Steve paused by his tallboy and reached out, laying a picture of him and my Mom face down on the top, leaving only a...