Chosen to Carry
wntown, sunlight pouring in but offering no warmth. A neat stac
adn't arr
first page again. It was real now. The house, t
the lawyer offered, kind but impe
. A two-month deadline.
he said, voice fi
tepped in, calm and unreadable. He nodded
g," he said. "And fo
yet there was something strained behind his eyes. He did
gston will carry the child through surrogacy, with no legal or parental claim. Me
ut the amount," M
then nodded once. "Th
blin
st women we reviewed looked at
e - they were desperate. And maybe that's wh
said. "Unless you nee
chan
, her hand stead
did
as d
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cal facility where the embryo transfer would happe
onal treatments. Scans. A few days
t drifting - to the house, to her father's laughte
ft, she sat alone
lost her family, she allowed he
-
nwhi
t the city lights. He should've felt relief. The contract was signed. The pro
ould think a
nowhere - her voic
never be
can fix what's bro
of you, Spencer. No
sed hi
in like a storm. She made him laugh again. Made him believe in love
any's current heir - just the *chosen* one. His inheritance hadn't bee
he spat the day she left. "Yo
allway of her apartme
were real," he
. Just slammed th
two mon
spoken to
use he missed her, but because she r
the surrogac
emo
etra
trans
a c
-
exam table, a thin hospital blanket pulled over her legs. A nur
," the doctor said with a reassuring nod
r body felt like it be
. He didn't need to be. They weren't friends. They weren
of her wished he would
-
ay c
not for the procedure
slowly. The nurse smiled when he walked in
e to come," May
ly. "But I wanted to m
d at him.
sat, suddenly unsure of what to do with hi
t's strange. I don't *feel* differen
ing down at the
uld call this prog
know ab
t I'm... taki
. "You don't talk mu
ugh. "That's because it
sed an
ity. A long line of powerful men e
at him, tr
his baby wil
her then, expres
t'll stop everything
-
st suite. Spencer covered everything, of course - the medicati
ghts were
nd whisper into the silence, *"If you're in there... I prom
-
t at the piano he never played. H
the rules. Ful
he feel so
in her voice, the steadiness of her choice - all mad
n, her betrayal... and how diffe
trying to
trying to
wanted to
e most honest thing anyo