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Chosen to Carry

Chapter 2 Terms and Ghosts

Word Count: 1159    |    Released on: 25/07/2025

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

-

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

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