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Justin, in the meantime, was becoming more and more obsessed with Ruth. He had struck up a chat with her via Facebook, and then slowly worked up a routine with her. By the end of 2 weeks, he’s got her phone number, and was regularly texting her. Being just 5 years older than her, he was able to still converse with her on many things. She was fun, more than up to a banter with him, and she felt at ease with him because he would talk about his wife, making her feel that he wasn’t trying anything funny with her. She was glad, since seldom was she able to be friends with her patients, for fear of any complications. Yet being friends with her patients had always been what she wanted, seeing it as a natural outcome of caring for them. So it was a welcome experience to have made a good friend in Justin. He even talked about bringing his wife down to see her when she fell sick. Too bad it didn’t happen because his wife’s company was on a different insurance plan, and so would have been unable to make any medical claims with her clinic. More and more he had talked abt introducing her to his wife, and she was quite interested to meet the woman behind such a guy. She had briefly entertained the notion that if he was single, she would have easily found him attractive, but she quickly brushed it off as nonsense, since he was obviously happily married.

Justin had deliberately guided the conversations along the way, making her feel at ease by being non-threatening. Of course, he was never going to let Ruth and the wife meet. That must never happen. Meanwhile, he has learnt much about her. She was confused about dating, not having had any serious boyfriends in the past. She had always been so focused on her studies, and she has enough girlfriends to keep her social life active without the need for boys. She likes confident men with a sense of humour, and she hasn’t met too many of them. Justin knows that its because she was only looking for guys that were her peers. She needed to be looking at guys older than her. Guys like him. Feeling like he’s on more solid ground now, he was elated at finally having gotten her handphone number. By doing a little more research on the internet, he managed to figure out her favorite styles of music, movies and activities. He was thus able to sneak them in during their conversations, feigning a similar interest. Ruth was pleasantly surprised at their common interests. That in turn helped her open up more to him, and feel a greater sense of kindred spirit. Very quickly, in the space of a couple of months, she found herself looking forward to their daily chats, and felt free to tell him things that she normally wouldn’t tell a friend.

Justin’s obsession with Ruth also meant that he was neglecting Pei Pei. He found that she was becoming a little weird, and their lovemaking had become a little awkward again. Missing the days of her being that confident and playful sex kitten that he thought she was finally becoming, he dismissed it as stress from her work, not realizing that it was actually her double life taking a toll on her. After the initial love bites that Ming Qiang had made on her breasts, she had to feign some excuse to avoid sex with Justin for a week, and she knew how frustrated he was at her lame excuses. The once-golden couple slowly drifted apart, and each began to care more only about what was going on in their own lives. Pei Pei made her work the main focus of her life, feeling that it was the only thing left which she had control over. She worked hard, and was glad when she saw that she was producing results in the company. She told herself that she would get promoted to a position where she could have some measure of control over Ming Qiang, so that she would no longer be totally under his control.