CHAPTER ONE: HIS GOODBYE, MY RUIN

(Elena’s Pov) "Tell me it's a joke." Lana didn't even close the door. She barged into my apartment waving her phone like a flag. "Come on, you know I can't joke with something like that. It's everywhere Elena! Xavier Carrington is getting married next weekend. " "What?" My voice came out as a whisper. She held her phone's screen up for me to see. The headline screamed: Xavier Carrington Engaged to Real Estate Princess. Xavier's arms were looped around a flawless blonde in a red gown, his smile easy, practiced, familiar. "That...has to be some PR stunt," I said in disbelief. "Why is it so hard for you to believe? Or was he going to marry you instead?" she said jokingly. But only I knew the truth. He told me I made it easy for him. "Elena, it's on every outlet. The engagement party is tonight. His fiancée is the daughter of the owner of the Brookline corporation. They're managing companies or something." My throat tightened and my mouth went dry. "He can't possibly be getti

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CHAPTER TWO: THE OFFER I NEVER SAW COMING

(Elena’s Pov ) "$150,000, Miss Hart. That's the cost " the doctor had said. "I'm sorry, but we can’t proceed without a deposit." $150,000. I didn’t even have close to $15,000. My hands trembled as I tried to focus on the pile of reports on my desk. But all I saw was my dying father on the hospital bed, hoping that his daughter would find a means to give him a new heart in the nick of time. "Elena!" My head shot up from my desk to look at the wide eyed and frantic Lana that was holding up her phone and waving it like it was a flag. Her ponytail was a mess, her lipstick smudged and I knew instantly that she had just finished making out with someone and in the employee break room and was in the middle of cleaning up when she got whatever information she did that made her run out like that. "You're not gonna like this!" "What now?" I asked already apprehensive. It’s been bad news after bad news since yesterday and I wasn’t sure if I could take any more. "Look, the board just made

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CHAPTER THREE: THE PROPOSITION

(ELENA’S POV) For a split second, I forgot how to breathe. The rooftop light blurred behind him, the wind caught in my hair and his words kept echoing in my head like a glitch in time. “Marry me, Elena, be the mother to my child and your father will be saved.” I laughed—not because it was funny but because I didn’t know how else to respond. “That’s...crazy. The most unbelievable thing I have heard all day. Did you hit your head on the railing or something?” I asked, as my voice came out louder than I had expected. “I’m perfectly sane, and yet...”Alaric said leaning lazily against the railing. “You didn’t say no.” “This isn’t a joke.” I breathed. “Oh, and I’m not laughing.” He said as he took a step closer, his hands still in his pocket, his expression maddeningly casual. “But I’m a practical man. I need an heir. You need money. It’s a Win-win.” I folded my hands and shook my head. “I’m still processing the fact that a total stranger wants to put a baby inside of me.” “A total s

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CHAPTER FOUR: FIRED

(ELENA'S POV) "How long are you going to pretend not to see him?" Lana whispered as we stepped out of the coffee shop. "Who said I'm pretending?" I breathed as I clutched my coffee cup closer to my heart. "I just want to focus on my work." That was partially a lie. I just couldn't allow Xavier to take the best of me. But there he was smiling down at his new fiancé like she hung the stars for him. I haven’t had a good sleep for days. Not after everything that’s happened and Alaric’s voice keeps playing in my head like a broken record. “Marry me, be the mother of my child. I will give you the money for your father’s surgery.” I had laughed then. Who proposed marriage like it’s a business contract? Still my chest tightened I could almost hear him saying it again. “Or do you want to know what your sister was doing in the club that night before she disappeared? The last one had carved itself into my brain like a worm. I still don’t know how to react to that—his tone, the way his eye

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CHAPTER FIVE: THE CONTRACT OF RUIN AND SALV CSS

(ELENA’S POV) “Easy,” he whispered above my ears. “It’s over now.” Not yet but that moment I pretended it was. Alaric didn’t let go of me immediately he allowed me to sob out my heart. His arms stayed around me like he was anchoring me in place, steadying the parts of me that were too hard to hide. I drew in a shaky breath against his chest, and I detested how safe I felt with him—how he filled the warmth in my cold world. “Let’s leave here,” he said low and certain like I have never heard him say before. In a split second before I could get myself ready to leave he guided me out of the lobby, one hand sat the small of my back the other hand shielding me from the curious stares that followed us. When we reached his car—sleek, black, far too expensive for someone that isn’t known in the company—he opened the passenger seat for me. “Is being dramatic just your default setting?” I asked trying to sound composed. “Only when I’m rescuing damsels who pretend they don’t need rescuing

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All Chapters of THE CEO’S VIRGIN SURROGATE(WOMB CONTRACT): Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

CHAPTER ONE: HIS GOODBYE, MY RUIN

CHAPTER TWO: THE OFFER I NEVER SAW COMING

CHAPTER THREE: THE PROPOSITION

CHAPTER FOUR: FIRED

CHAPTER FIVE: THE CONTRACT OF RUIN AND SALV CSS