All Chapters of The Surrogate Search : Reunited With My Cruel Ex: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

“Why did he destroy you?” Luciana asked gently, breaking the tense silence that had settled over the pavilion.Hazel lowered her head. Her thumbs pressed against the fingers of her opposite hand, one after another, as she struggled to steady the tremors in her chest. Memories of three years ago—when she had been accused of betrayal, and the brutal struggle to survive after Damian had blocked every avenue of employment available to her—came crashing back, stabbing painfully into her heart.But she refused to reopen those old wounds in front of Luciana.“He’s a dangerous man for me, ma’am... That’s all you need to know,” Hazel whispered, her voice trembling despite her efforts to keep it steady.Luciana stared intently at Hazel. Decades of life experience told her there was a much deeper secret hidden beneath the fear etched across the young woman’s face.Her gaze slowly shifted toward the doorway, where Cassandra had just carried Adrian outside.“Is Adrian... Damian’s son?” Luciana ask

“Good evening, ladies.” Damian stepped into the main dining room of Luciana’s residence just as dinner was being served.Seeing that his mother and grandmother were seated alone, accompanied only by Mischa, Damian’s brows drew together. “Just the two of you?” he asked curiously, sweeping his gaze around the otherwise empty room.Luciana raised an eyebrow at her grandson. “It’s always just us. Who exactly were you expecting to find here tonight?” she retorted in her characteristically sharp tone.Damian ignored her sarcasm and pulled out the chair immediately to his grandmother’s left, placing him directly across from Natalia.“You seem to be visiting this place more often lately, too, Mom,” Damian remarked, looking at his mother.Natalia furrowed her brows innocently. “Are you only just noticing?” she asked without a hint of guilt. “Your presence here is actually the more surprising thing,” she added, earning a faint, sardonic smile from Luciana.All three of them had residences of th

Hazel fell silent. The truth is, Adrian’s father and the father of the child I’m going to carry are the same man.But those words remained trapped inside her mind. Hazel had no intention of telling Cassandra that Adrian’s biological father was Damian Montoya. The strict conditions she planned to impose would serve as a barrier, ensuring that Damian would never again touch them or interfere in their lives.“No. And Adrian doesn’t need to know that child ever existed. Once my contract with Mrs. Lancaster is fulfilled, we’ll go as far away from here as possible. Maybe overseas... somewhere we’ll never cross paths with them again,” Hazel said, forcing a resolute smile onto her face.The laboratory results arrived a few days later, and a single red line confirmed the bitter truth: negative. Hazel’s first IVF procedure had failed completely.The news struck Hazel like a block of ice. It meant she would have to face the worst possible outcome under the contract she had signed with Luciana—co

“Consider it a trial run. I just wanted to see whether our bodies still respond to each other,” Damian said with a provocative, mocking smile.Hazel glared at him for several seconds. Summoning what little dignity she had left, she turned her face away and straightened her slightly rumpled dress.“If you do that again before we sign the contract and establish an official medical schedule, I will consider this agreement unilaterally terminated,” Hazel cut in icily.Without waiting for his response, she flung open the study door and slammed it shut so hard that the sound echoed throughout the corridor.From a corner of the hallway not far away, Luciana broke into a wide grin.“Something hot must have just happened in there,” she whispered to Mischa.The two women hadn’t had time to move far when the study door suddenly closed again a few minutes earlier. Fortunately, they were concealed behind a large pillar, sparing Hazel the embarrassment of running into them immediately after leaving

“That’s your conclusion, sir,” Isaac replied calmly, prompting Damian to regard him with a sharp, narrowed gaze. “Mrs. Luciana may not know Miss Hazel Donovan’s true identity, just as we lost track of Miss Hazel Sinclair all those years ago. However, she did indirectly orchestrate the circumstances that ultimately drove Miss Donovan to take this path.“Miss Donovan needed money, and she had been forced out of her home. In the end, the only option left to her was to accept an offer that was guaranteed and right in front of her: becoming a surrogate.”Damian fell silent, his mind racing as he tried to make sense of everything. His grandmother was certainly capable of taking drastic measures when she wanted something, but he had never imagined the old woman would go so far as to manipulate someone’s fate and entire life.“The apple never falls far from the tree,” Isaac murmured, as though he could read the turmoil in his employer’s mind.“What do you mean by that?” Damian asked coldly.“