When Rose* saw Jason* across the room at an event, she recognised him immediately. And not for good reasons.
"He had a terrible reputation for being a real pr***," Rose told Mamamia . "I didn't care though, I just thought he was absolutely attractive."
Jason thought the same about Rose, who was a few years his junior.
With an instant physical connection, the pair started dating.
Eventually, they began working together and later built a successful business together.
While the couple never married, they were happy. Until Rose started noticing some suspicious behaviour.
"People in the industry would drop hints to me that things weren't quite right," she said. "There was weird stuff going on."
But when she confronted Jason about the rumours, he always deflected.
"He had an excuse for