With the resolve of never getting married, Billionaire Alexander Lorenzo needs an heir to take over the rest of his father's companies. In a bid to get an heir, he signs up for a surrogacy program. Daisy Marcello is a human definition of desperate. She is on the verge of dropping out of college and no help is forthcoming except one. When she is offered a million dollar surrogacy contract by Alexander Lorenzo, with stringent rules, she doesn't think twice before signing up for it. Alexander's essential rule of carrying a baby with no strings attached becomes subjective when he and Daisy's paths cross.
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Shaking my waist to the loud sound of music is what I do to take away the pain and sadness I always feel.
But today, shaking my waist, twirling, turning, and shouting aren't solving any of my problems. The pain isn't going away either.
I am thinking drinking myself to a stupor will help but nothing is working.
Right now, all I feel like doing is letting it all out. Crying it out. Then maybe I will feel better.
The moment I stop dancing and turn to find my way to the bathroom, my eyes meet with a guy.
This is the same guy who has had his eyes on me for over thirty minutes since I have been doing nothing but dancing to end my sorrows.
I am not here for a man. I am here to drink and take my sorrows away and also find somewhere to sleep.
My legs almost give me away as I find myself staggering towards the bathroom of the club, ignoring the man with the burning gaze.
My eyes burn with hot tears, willing to push their way down my face, to let out the pent-up anger, anguish, and frustration I have been feeling for years.
My two palms are forced to hit the wall so I can regain my balance and stop myself from falling all over the place.
Taking deep breaths, pushing back the tears brimming in my eyes, I blink several times to get back my real sight which has been messed up with the too-many intake of alcohol I took downstairs.
Nothing seems to be working. Especially not the fact that I have a test tomorrow. The mere thought of the test makes my heart heavy. This was why I resorted to drinking and clubbing.
I wanted to drink to a stupor.
I have no home to go to and now I am going to be thrown out of school if I don't find my fees before the end of the week.
All because of one single mistake. The mistake of my parents. The mistakes bring nothing but bad memories.
I don't want to say I hate the two people who should be referred to as my parents but I don't like them either. They are responsible for this horrible and miserable life that I am living.
At this point, I can no longer hold it in anymore because tears begin to roll down my eyes before I know it but I am quick to suck in my sob, forcefully pushing it back from escaping my tightly closed mouth.
I am doomed.
I can't survive this. I can't survive being a school dropout and homeless at the same time. I can't continue with this pathetic life. I am done trying.
I have tried to look for a job somewhere to save my ass but I guess Mrs. B is bent on ruining me completely.
Since she sacked me, I haven't been able to secure a job anywhere else. Everyone knows her and everyone is trying not to employ me in order not to incur her wrath.
I want to give up. Going to heaven or hell or wherever it is that my parents are to give them a piece of my mind won't be a bad idea, will it?
They ought to take responsibility for their mistakes. I can't be the one suffering for this when I am the most innocent of all.
I didn't stoop so low to go into prostitution as Brenda did. I couldn't do it. Not because I didn't need the money but because I respect my body.
I respect my dignity.
But now, I am left thinking of that as the only chance to live again. If I ever change my mind about living again, then working with Brenda would be the best idea.
After all, this is why she stopped being my best friend.
All I need to do is get rid of my virginity, and my innocence and clothe myself with full confidence charged enough to begin a world I can never be proud of.
A sob escapes my mouth instantly and my hands find the doorknob of the bathroom.
"No!" My voice breaks as I try to wipe my tears so I won't fall. "No!"
I don't know if the word coming out of my mouth is the response to the idea of becoming a slut or because I am too pressed.
My right hand finds its way to my trousers, to zip them down. The door is thrown open and I rush into the first available toilet so I won't let the liquid dampen the third surviving trousers.
I sit hurriedly in the water closet and let out a deep sigh of relief as the liquid comes out of me, making a long hissing sound till it feels like my bladder is empty.
Another sigh leaves my mouth and I close my eyes.
Instead of getting up and cleaning myself up so I can leave and find the best solution to my current problem, I sit still, lost in thought, pondering on what to do and where to go.
It is already late at night. I used to work in the restaurant nearby and I only earn $500 per month.
It isn't enough to pay my bills but I have no choice but to just stick to it till a better offer comes. A better offer never came except selling my body to get what I want like Brenda advised me.
Brenda now owns a car and lives in a big well-furnished apartment with the other girls and here I am, still suffering from the mistakes of my parents and being miserable.
Just this morning, I was sent out of my apartment because I haven't paid my rent for over 6 months. Nothing seems to be working in my way.
I don't have one problem. I have many which money will definitely solve.
I really do not know why Mrs. B fired me but I have a feeling it has to do with her son. The prodigal son eventually came home after several years of being away.
He has eyes for me but I bluntly and politely rejected him. He was not only surprised that I rejected him, his ego was bruised that I did.
Without a word, he left my presence and I didn't see him again until the very day I was fired from work.
He was watching his mother lash out at me and he watched me plead with her without interfering. His face was expressionless so I couldn't guess if he was responsible or not.
How the hell can he come from nowhere to send me away after several years of service to the restaurant?
Who the hell does he think he is?
Is this how all rich people behave? They don't care about the poor and even if they do, they end up looking down on them and making them feel inferior.
Alex is nothing but a jerk for doing this to me.
Suddenly, a sob cracks me up again and I find myself opening my eyes and letting wails of anguish leave my mouth.
The anger is back. The pain.
The hurt. The suffering.
The emotions hit each other in a whirlwind inside of me because my wails keep increasing with each passing second.
I hope this will help.
I can't remember the last time I cried this way. I have been so strong. For so long. Now I can't help it.
Crying seems to be the only thing to do at the moment. There is no solution for me. Crying will help me feel better. It will let the anger out.
Maybe I should spend the night here. In this toilet and then leave first thing tomorrow morning.
I facepalm myself, crying loudly into my palms. The taste of my tears does nothing to placate my frustrations.
Somewhere in the background, I hear the sound of water flushing down the water closet and I need no soothsayer to tell me it is from the bathroom next to me.
Someone is in there. Someone must have heard me crying.
Instead of stopping my tears for fear of being interrogated for crying like a baby in the restroom, my tears increase, my wails become louder than ever before and I find myself crawling out of the toilet without cleaning up.
Daisy's POVJust like the exact dream I had when I was sleeping so soundly in Alex's suite, a night after we met at the club, I find myself falling from a high building and I jerk awake in fright.There are sweats all over me which is revealing how long I must have been having that scary dream.Why do I keep having this sort of nightmare?It feels real like it is happening already but I am not falling off any building. I am still laying on my bed, unlike the other time when I fell off the bed.That was probably because I was hungover from the previous night's drink. The eerie silence and the darkness is adding to my fear as I hurriedly sit up in bed, my breathing heavy and my hands trembling in fear.Quickly, my hands find their way to the side drawer and I grab my phone to dial the first number on my contact.Alex.He isn't a heavy sleeper so he is going to know that his phone is ringing, except if his phone is on silent mode.Just before it starts to ring, I feel a sharp pain in my
Alex's POVAfter getting a call from home, I rush out of my office and instruct Kelvin to take me home. When he drives the car out of the company's parking lot, I place a call to the doctor as fear begins to grip me with different questions popping up in my head.Is she in pain? Is that why she is crying? Does it hurt a lot?Did something happen?Agnes picks up the call at the fifth ring. "Hello, Alex."Without beating about the bush, I go straight to the point of my call. "I just got a call from home now. The head maid said Daisy is crying."Silence ensues in contradiction to what I am expecting. I am thinking she will gasp or shout and ask us to come to the hospital immediately."Are you there?" I ask quickly."Yes. Why is she crying?""I have no idea," I shrug as if she can see me. "She hasn't been eating too like you said she would.""Is that why she is crying?""I don't know, Agnes. Do you think she is fine? Should we come to the hospital right away? Will she be ok? You said she
Daisy's POVI wake up with a yawn and a loud growl in my stomach. My stomach feels empty, way too empty like I have nothing in there and the host inside of me is already feeding off my intestines.Quickly, I scramble out of bed to go see what they have in the kitchen, uncaring about how I look right now.Brenda and some of the girls are already suspecting that I am expecting a baby because of how they stare at me coldly and also share knowing looks between themselves. I am not bothered by any of that if they won't come to ruin what I have here with Alex's parents.When I am gone, they can do and undo whatever, I won't care then because I will be far away from them and from here.As soon as I am done with my final papers, I will have my things packed up to leave New York City and if possible America.I don't want to be reminded of any of these. I don't want to share any bond with the baby as well.I have been careful enough to take this as purely business just like Alex wants it. His a
Alex's POVIt's been a month already and I still haven't gotten used to the idea of having a woman at home, pregnant with no huge appetite like I know of other women.I still haven't been able to get rid of the constant distractions at the office either. I always watch my phone, expecting it to ring at any time.Sometimes, I wonder if I am desperate for some bad news because I focus more on my phone than my work.The doctor said everything is going fine but I still can't help the worry I feel whenever I leave for work in the morning and when I get home at night.Daisy is a strong woman indeed. She tries to hide how she feels most times and there is nothing I can do since she doesn't want me to know where it hurts and where it doesn't.Because I didn't want her to be going back and forth in school because of the stress and the baby, I employed a driver for her. He takes her to school and back from school. Whenever she wants to visit my Mother while I am at work, he takes her there too.
Daisy's POVFeeling much better than I felt this morning, I take a shower and also wash my hair.With a towel on my head drying out the liquid and another white towel around my bosom, I walk out of the bathroom, my flip-flop making a flip-flip sound as I walk to the dresser.Watching myself in the mirror, the memories of what happened this morning come rushing; how I threw up everything I ate last night and how I couldn't eat much, probably because I had no appetite or because it was Alex feeding me and it felt so uncomfortable.I would have gone for the latter but since he left, I haven't had any other thing except doughnuts.I love them. And there are many of them here. In the kitchen.I ate two with orange juice before going back to bed. When I woke up, I felt better, which was the reason why I decided to take a bath before Alex comes back home.I don't want him to be worried about me or the baby. By the time he is back, I will be my normal self and he will have no cause for alarm.
Alex's POVDistraction is something that rarely happens to me whenever I am at work. I am always focused on work because it is important and this is my life but today, I am a little distracted because another part of my life is at home.I am troubled about Daisy and the baby. The doctor said they are fine and we can come back next time for an ultrasound.Daisy has been really weak since she threw up this morning and I almost skipped work because of that. I am deeply don'tied about her and I wonder why she is feeling this way even after the doctor announced that she is healthy enough to carry the baby.I still can't believe that puke was normal. How can someone throw up that much and still not have any appetite to eat?Pushing the paper in front of me away and dropping my pen, I pick up my phone and dial Natasha's number.It rings and she picks on the second ring."Hi, Natasha", I say into the phone, leaning backward on the chair. This is the only thing that can make me concentrate. At
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