FOUR

Cara is used to crazy, after all, she is crazy and her dreams are crazy. Cara once dreamt of being a pilot, quite ironic considering the fact she hates heights. Crazy talks and crazy words are no surprise to her but this bomb dropped on her is beyond bonkers.

"Wait let me get this straight, you want me to get fat?"

Cara does not know if she should be offended or threatened. Was this his grand plan to make her pay for the scene she caused?

It's nuts.

"Pregnant, so yeah," Alex wonders why it took time for him to say those words, it sounds about right to him, there was no need for fancy words. Besides, there is a 90% chance she won't understand his fancy words if he said it.

Cara stares at him like he has grown two heads. She is trying to figure out what he is thinking or if he hit his head on something while coming. After a long stare, Cara comes to a conclusion this is just a waste of time, she wronged him and this is payback, now they are even.

"You are going cuckoo, I am leaving."

This isn't a bluff, Cara is actually going to leave. She has had enough embarrassment as it is and after all, organ donation is still on the table.

Cara picks up her bag and stands up, Alexander probably thinks she is bluffing until she gets to the door, he realizes she is actually going to leave.

"A million dollars which you can use for payment of  your mum's treatment and the rest, I don't care what you do with it."

Cara stops to  she processes his words.

Alex had planned not to give her a dime, after all, she owes him, which was until he heard about her mum's condition, and he reconsidered. The money is to keep her quiet all through the process and what comes after.

"Hold up, did you stalk me?" As Cara's nature, she says what comes to her head, deviating from the important topic. Alexander wonders how that's all she could say after offering a million dollars to her, she should be thankful.

Alexander didn't stalk the crazy woman, he had no time to. So he sent Andre and others to find out all that he is to know about Cara Green. He does not know how Andre went about it, nor does he care to know, he is here before her, which indicates a job well done.

"Unlike someone, I have an actual job." Alex's voice sounds condescending as he intends for it to sound. If he truly wants to be honest, he is disgusted and annoyed with the fact that a woman like Cara would subject herself to being a thing of pleasure to men.

When Andre came to Alex with all the information needed, Alexander had intended to meet her in her workplace, Geisel's. When Alex got there he met Jim instead, and when he asked for her, Jim started blabbing asking how much he is willing to pay for a night with her. Alex was so mad at the little respect she had for herself and he wanted to reconsider his offer, he doesn't want his child to be birthed by a whore.

He is not that desperate.

Then he heard the loose mouthed manager say something about this being her first time and once again he reconsidered. Alexander believes the girl before him should be thankful to him, not asking stupid questions, he is basically her saviour.

"I hired someone to get info about you. How the hell do you think I got here?" Cara stares at him for a while not because she is thinking about anything, in particular, her brain has shut down upon hearing a million dollars, she needs to reboot.

Cara walks back to her chair, dropping her bag on the floor before taking her seat.

"Point taken," Cara still trying to process the offer, she produces a mental picture of herself heavily pregnant within seconds and it doesn't look great. A million dollars? That can solve lots of problems in her life. If she was willing to donate an organ, how is this any different? And she won't probably get a million dollars for any of her organs.

"So have you accepted the offer?" Alex doesn't understand what's taking her time to accept, it's quite easy. He is saving her from opening her legs for money and besides no matter how many times she opens her legs no one will give her a million dollars.

Cara wonders how insensitive the man before her his, thinking it's an easy decision for her to make. She hates his condescending tone and the disgusted look he has on his face. He looks at her like she is shit, so why would he what her to carry his child?

"If I accept, how do we go about it?" She asks, "There is no fucking way I will have sex with you."

She still has her pride. Although this douche as seen her in the worst way possible and knows about her situation, she won't give him the pleasure of having her.

"Having sex with you is not part of my priorities." He gives her an uninterested look. "Have you heard of Artificial Insemination or you are just dumb?" Alex is taking longer than intended in this unconventional meeting. He has work to do, stupid and irrelevant questions the woman before him doesn't fail to ask is pissing him off.

Cara balls her fist as she imagines punching the living hell out of the rude man, the only thing stopping her is the money.

"I know what surrogacy is." Cara raises her head proudly. She won't give him the joy of making her look dumb.

"Thank goodness," Alexander mutters under his breath but loud enough for Cara to hear. Cara doesn't care what people say but she couldn't help but wonder what this man thinks of her.

"So you want to bring a child into the world because people are bashing you?" Cara won't pretend to know how celebrity life is, she has always wished to be one but here she is. Cara doesn't seek people's approval, if she was a celebrity, it wouldn't be any different.

"I am 35, I have been trying to convince my ex-girlfriend for 3 years but she doesn't want to have kids." Alex doesn't want to talk about Liza or how their relationship was. It's too hurtful. "This is just an eye-opener."

When Alex told his publicist his plans, he thought Alex is crazy. Suing her is an easy way out but Alex isn't going to gain anything from suing her, but he can merge two scandals into one and people can eventually let go of Liza's scandal. Alex isn't going give Liza the joy of being the hot topic, he may not like Cara but he prefers her in every blog page than Liza. Since Alex doesn't plan on falling in love, sometime in the future he would hire a surrogate and that's another personal drama, he doesn't need. He is merging all dramas now and in the future together, he is going to make a beautiful and believable story out of it with the help of Andre.

What's going through Cara's mind at the moment is the 12 years age difference between them and how young he looked.

"I have always wanted a child, not with a psycho but I will take it." Alex might try to cover it under his blunt words, he actually thinks the psycho is beautiful, he likes the curly hair. He definitely wants his kids to have her curly hair as for her dramatizes, he can only wish for the best.

"You are rude, do you know that?" Cara folds her arms, frowning at him.

"Oh, I am sorry, what am I supposed to call a girl who did what you did?"

"It worked, I have your attention." Cara smiles at the man who has a natural boring expression on his face.

"When you accept the offer, doctors will run some tests on you, you will sign some papers and then you will proceed to live with me. "

When? Doctors? Living with him? these are all Cara picks from what he said and all them annoyed her.

But first things first, "Why do I have to live with you? Enlighten me." Cara asks.

If she is to accept his offer, living with him will be like a prison and this woman loves her freedom.

"Easy, I don't trust you with the pregnancy." He states. From what Alex as seen today, Cara is impulsive, she acts before thinking and he doesn't trust her energy. He has to keep a very close eye on her.

"You said when what makes you so sure I will accept."

He might be used to things going his way but Cara is going to think this through before she acts.

Alex lets out a low and short laugh before standing up, adjusting his suit then walking up to an already nervous Cara.

"Either you accept or go to jail for defamation." Alex is face hard, he tries to appear intimidating as possible to the fearless girl.

"Are you threatening me?" Cara doesn't believe his shit, if he wanted her in jail, she would be there now.

"It doesn't have to be. I want a reply as soon as possible, by as soon as possible, I mean tomorrow." He places his card on the table close to her.

"Gee thanks. " Cara mutters sarcastically.

"By the way, your boobs are still out." Alex has noticed this during their conversation but didn't care to tell her. He walks past her, opens the door and walks out.

"Asshole," Cara mutters under her breath, adjusting her coat.

Cara needs to think about the offer and she knows a little friend that helps her think.

Alcohol

She walks over to the bottle of red wine, ready to drown all her issues.

"Don't mind if I do."

~~~~

"How was it?" Cassie had ambushed her even before she came out from the Uber, now they are upstairs.

"Uneventful." Cara struggles to pull the left heel off her leg before throwing it to the end of the room.

"You had sex with a perverted old man, didn't you?" This is what Cassie had tried to prevent but now it has happened, she just wants to help her through the situation.

"I wish." Cara scoffed.

Cassie stands up, confusion was written on her face, now she is anxious.

"Okay, what happened?" Cassie holds Cara's hands stopping her from pacing around.

"The douche happened."

Cara wants to strangle him and she hates the fact that he has something she needs, the money.

"You mean Alexander Black?" Cassie goes from worried to fantasizing about the male Adonis.

Cara frowns at her friend who places her hands on her chest staring dreamingly into nothing. The guy may be hot but he is an ass and her best friend has to be on her side in this.

"Snap out of it, Missy." Cara snaps her fingers near Cassie's face.

"Come on, meeting Alex again couldn't be that bad."

Cara's phone rings just as she is about to tell Cassie everything.

It's Jim calling.

Cara rolls her eyes as she picks up the phone and swipes to answer.

"What?" Cara snaps. Not a way to talk to your boss when you are in need of money, but Cara has options now.

"I have a lot of men waiting for you, so be here in an hour. I might even tap it when you are done." Cara almost puked in her mouth. She hates that she subjected herself to this degrading insults in the first place.

"Fuck off, I quit," Cara yells into the phone and ends the call.

Cara had always imagined saying these words to Jim since she started working for him. It will be after she had been chosen for a major role in a movie or series and she going off to Hollywood. Things are far beyond what she imagines.

Cassie stares at her friend in shock, her jaw slightly dropping.

"Why did you do that? You still need the money, how will you help your mum? How will you get a new job?" Cassie starts pacing around, panicking for her friend.

"Don't you worry, I got this," Cara smirked.

It took a bottle of wine for Cara to come to her decision. There is nowhere else she would get such a good offer and she as to take it, for her mum.

She slips her hands in her coat and takes Alex's card, then types his number to her phone while her friend paces around.

"Who the hell are you calling?" Cassie is wondering why she is calm about this, this is insane.

"Yes?" Alex's voice comes up, making Cara's focus shift from her friend to the voice.

"I accept the offer."

"I knew you would come around."

Cara can imagine him smirking and indeed, Alex is.

He won.