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Chapter 5

Author: Tomato Scramble
"This is Hugh Moore." Once the call connected, I suppressed all my emotions. My voice was unnaturally flat.

The door frame was about to crack wide open from the battering, but I ignored it. "You might not be able to stomach what I'm about to tell you, but I have a complete chain of evidence. Mabel's demanding 50 million dollars from me. She plans to use the money at Gilead to purchase Mateo's frozen sperm for surrogacy. She's telling the world that this is Mateo's dying wish."

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    "This is Hugh Moore." Once the call connected, I suppressed all my emotions. My voice was unnaturally flat. The door frame was about to crack wide open from the battering, but I ignored it. "You might not be able to stomach what I'm about to tell you, but I have a complete chain of evidence. Mabel's demanding 50 million dollars from me. She plans to use the money at Gilead to purchase Mateo's frozen sperm for surrogacy. She's telling the world that this is Mateo's dying wish." Silence fell on the other end of the line, broken only by heavy, labored breathing. Half a minute later, Naomi's voice trembled uncontrollably. "What did you just do? That's impossible!" she roared. "Mat doesn't even have the strength to speak anymore! He's being kept alive by a ventilator every day. He wouldn't even know the first thing about surrogacy. He's never mentioned anything this absurd!" Just as I'd suspected, Mabel had been using a dying man as a smokescreen all this time to indulge her own twi

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