My Husband Forced Me to Be a Surrogate for His Boss to Get Promotion — but His True Motive Turned Out to Be Even Worse

“You won’t regret this,” he said. “I promise.”

Promises are cheap when the person making them doesn’t mean a word.

Everything moved fast.

Contracts, lawyers, medical screenings. We met at Monica’s office.

“I want to be clear about expectations,” Monica said, barely looking at me. “This is a business arrangement.

I’m paying for a service, and I expect professionalism.”

“Of course,” Doug said quickly. Too quickly.

The hormone treatments made me nauseous and emotional. When the pregnancy took, Monica’s involvement ramped up immediately.

“What did you eat for breakfast?

I don’t want you to have too much sugar.”

She’d show up at our house unannounced to drop off organic groceries.

“I don’t want you eating junk. The baby needs proper nutrition.”

She made me quit my freelance work entirely.

“Stress isn’t good for the baby. You need to focus on staying healthy.”

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