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2026-03-20 11:25:25
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SURROGATE FOR THE COLD BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER 57
Emma's POVThe certification arrives on a Tuesday. A white envelope in the stack of mail Mrs. Kowalski leaves on the counter. I see it when I come home from my shift, still in my coat, and I stand at the counter and open it with the particular care of something you've been waiting for but don't want to rush.The certificate is simple. My name, the qualification, the date. Clean and official and real.I hold it for a moment.Then I take a photo and send it to Lily before I do anything else.She calls before I've put my phone down."Emma." Her voice is the full version of my name, the one she uses when she means it completely."I know," I say."Mum would have framed it."The words land softly. Not painfully. Just true."I know that too," I say.We stay on the phone for a few minutes. She tells me about her latest checkup, all clear, and Daniel's new project, and I tell her about Singapo
SURROGATE FOR THE COLD BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER 56
Dominic's POV Emma notices it before I do. She opens the bedroom window before she leaves for her shift and the air that comes in is different, lighter, and she stands at it for a moment before she goes. I watch her from the bed. She doesn't know I'm awake. She has her coat over her arm and her bag on her shoulder and she's just standing at the open window breathing the changed air and her expression is the one she gets when something simple is enough. Then she goes. I lie there for a few minutes with the window still open and the March air coming in and think about nothing in particular. Which is still new enough to notice. --- The certification exam is the second Thursday of March. Emma doesn't talk about it the night before. We eat dinner and do bath time and she puts the girls down and comes to sit on
SURROGATE FOR THE COLD BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER 55
Emma's POVlast week of February I finished my course. Not the certification exam, that's in March, but the coursework itself. The final portfolio submission goes in on a Wednesday morning and I close my laptop and sit at the kitchen island and feel the strange lightness of something that has occupied a corner of my brain for eight months suddenly not being there.Dominic is in his office. I knock on the open door."Done," I say.He looks up. Reads my face. Stands.He crosses the room and hugs me properly, both arms, the kind that means something rather than the brief contact of daily movement, and I press my face into his shoulder and exhale."How does it feel?" he says into my hair."Odd. Like I've been carrying something and put it down and my arms don't know what to do."He pulls back and looks at me. "Good odd or bad odd?""Good. Definitely good."He keeps his hands at my shoulders. "We should
SURROGATE FOR THE COLD BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER 54
Dominic's POVEmma works the morning shift. The patisserie is at full capacity and she leaves at six thirty with her hair still damp and comes home at two with flour on her collarbone and the satisfied exhaustion of someone who has done exactly what they're good at for six hours straight.I'm working from home. Have been since morning, specifically so I'm here when she gets back.She comes through the door, drops her bag, sees me at the kitchen island with my laptop and says, "You moved your calls.""I worked from home.""You moved your calls," she says again. Not accusatory. Just reading it accurately."Some of them."She hangs up her coat and comes to the island and leans across it and kisses me briefly, flour and all."Hi," she says."Hi."She goes to change and comes back in the soft grey sweater and her hair down and I close the laptop beca
SURROGATE FOR THE COLD BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER 53
Emma's POVCeleste runs the kitchen like a military operation the first two weeks of the month. Every station has a purpose, every hour has an output target, and she walks the line twice a day with the expression of someone who will not be accepting excuses.I love it.I'm in charge of the petit gâteau program, six individual desserts that rotate through the Valentine's menu. Celeste approved all six in January and has since added a seventh at the last minute because a corporate client requested something specific and she decided I was the one to develop it.I tell Dominic this on a Tuesday evening while he's making coffee and I'm sitting on the counter which he has fully stopped fighting."She's testing you," he says."I know.""Can you do it?"I look at him. "Yes."He hands me the coffee. "Then stop analyzing it and do it."This is one of the things I didn't expect about being married to him.
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Dominic's POVThe week after the biopsy results the weather turns brutal.January in New York doing what January does, single digits and wind that makes the city feel hostile to human presence. Emma starts wearing a coat I've never seen before, enormous and green, that she says she bought years ago and only uses in genuine emergencies."Is this a genuine emergency?" I say."Anything below fifteen degrees is a genuine emergency."She leaves for her Tuesday shift wrapped in it and comes home four hours later with cold hands that she puts directly on my neck without warning.I don't react. She's been doing it for weeks. I've accepted it as part of the contract I didn't sign."You did that on purpose," I say."Your neck is warm.""Get warm another way.""This is faster." She hangs up the enormous coat. "Celeste sent me home with testing portions. Th
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EMMA'S POVThe girls are four months old when Dominic's grandmother reappears.I'm in the nursery changing Sophia when Mrs. Kowalski rushes in."She's here. Grace Westbrook. Downstairs. She says she wants to see the babies."My stomach drops. "Where's Dominic?"
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DOMINIC'S POV Being with Emma is different than I expected. We don't announce anything to Mrs. Kowalski, but she knows immediately. She finds us having breakfast together—actually together, sitting close instead of across from each other—and
SURROGATE FOR THE COLD BILLIONAIRE CHAPTER 8
EMMA'S POVWe don't talk about what Dominic said.For three days, we move around each other carefully. He asks about my doctor's appointments. I tell him the babies are growing normally. We're polite strangers sharing a space.On Sunday morning, I wake up to find him in the kitchen making breakfast
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EMMA'S POVMrs. Kowalski discovers I'm crying over a commercial about puppies."Kochanie, what's wrong?""Nothing. The puppies found homes and it's just so beautiful." I'm sobbing into a throw pillow at ten in the morning, still in my pajamas.She sits beside m
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