Chapter: A Trap?Chapter five- A trap?Alexander’s POV“What exactly is going on here?”Elara’s voice cuts through the silence like glass shattering on marble.I don’t answer.I can’t.The name still echoes in my head like a gunshot.Celyne.Of all the people in the world… how is it her?My fingers remain locked together on the desk as I stare blankly ahead, but my mind is racing with a thousand questions I cannot answer.Across the office, Elara begins pacing slowly, her heels clicking sharply against the polished floor.“How is Celyne suddenly a surrogate at our hospital after disappearing for five years?” she continues, her voice tightening with irritation. “And how convenient that she just happens to be carrying our child.”Her words hang in the air.Our child.The phrase feels strange… foreign.I still haven’t processed it.I had walked into that clinic expecting a routine check. A quick confirmation that the surrogate agency had finally matched us with someone suitable.Instead I walked into a g
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Chapter: My LossesChapter four: My lossesCelyne POVThe blood wouldn’t stop.By the time I reached the hospital, my vision had already begun to blur. Nurses rushed toward me the moment they saw the state I was in. Their voices overlapped as they guided me onto a stretcher.“Get the doctor.”“She’s losing a lot of blood.”“How far along is the pregnancy?”My fingers trembled as I clutched the edge of the sheet.“I… I don’t know,” I whispered weakly.Everything felt distant after that.The bright hospital lights above me streaked into white lines as they wheeled me down the corridor. Somewhere in the haze of panic, I remember hearing Alexander’s voice.Sharp. Urgent.“Celyne!”His hand gripped mine tightly.“I’m here,” he said.But fear had already swallowed me whole.When I woke up, the room was silent.A steady beeping from the monitor filled the air.For a moment, I didn’t remember why I was there. Then my hand moved instinctively to my stomach.Flat.Empty.The door opened quietly and the doctor ste
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Chapter: Love at first sightChapter three: Love at first sight Celyne Pov“Alexander…?”The name leaves my lips before I can stop it.For a moment, no one moves.Alexander’s eyes lock onto mine, and the world seems to collapse into that single point of recognition. The same steel-gray gaze that once softened when he looked at me now stares back in disbelief.His jaw tightens.Elara’s fingers curl possessively around his arm.“What did you just say?” she asks, her voice still smooth but also edged with recognition.My heart begins to pound violently against my ribs.Alexander opens his mouth—perhaps to speak, perhaps to ask a thousand questions—but the panic flooding my veins is louder than anything he might say.I can’t breathe.I can’t stay here.Before either of them can move, I spin around.“I’m sorry,” I blurt out to no one in particular, my voice shaking.Then I run.The hallway stretches endlessly as I rush past nurses and patients, my pulse roaring in my ears. My hands tremble so badly I almost slam into
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Chapter: The Intended ParentsChapter two: The intended parents Celyne POVClara’s reaction is immediate.“Are you insane? Or are you drunk?” she explodes, pacing across the marble floor like a storm in designer silk. “Tell me this is shock talking. Tell me you’re not actually planning to risk your life for strangers.”I don’t flinch.“I already made the calls last night,” I say quietly. “I have an appointment at a fertility clinic in three hours.”Her head snaps toward me. “You what?”“I’m going.”Clara lets out a sharp, disbelieving laugh. “Celyne, you were diagnosed a week ago.”“I know.”“You have stage two ovarian cancer.” Her voice cracks around the word. “Your body needs immediate treatment, not hormones. Not pregnancy.”I grip the edge of the counter to steady myself. “They’re taking my uterus within the year.”“And that means you gamble with the months you have left before surgery?” she fires back. “You don’t even know if you’re fit to carry a child right now! What if something happens along the way to y
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Chapter: A Surrogate MotherChapter one: A surrogate mother Clara povThe paper trembles in my hand.Not because of the cold.Not because of the wind slicing through the quiet Paris evening.But because of the word printed in bold across the top of the page.Malignant.The doctor had said it gently. Too gently.“Stage two ovarian cancer, Ms. Celyne. We caught it early, but your uterus will likely need to be removed within the year and you need to start treatment immediately to avoid it from worsening.”A tear slips down my cheek, warm against the winter air. Then another. And another. They fall soundlessly onto the diagnosis sheet like quiet confessions.I don’t remember leaving the hospital.I don’t remember how I ended up walking.But I am walking now.Endlessly.The streets of Paris blur around me—golden lamps reflecting off wet pavement, the distant hum of traffic, laughter spilling from cafés. Life moving forward. People living.And I am standing still inside a sentence that has already decided my future.
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