Chapter 7 OF HEAT AND ACCEPTANCE

"What did you tell him? When he asked if you were a virgin, what did you say?" Mara asked, squatting in the floor beside me. They were picking beans for their dinner, Mara had plans to sleepover because Darren had practice and he was going to be spending the night at a friend's place.

Honestly Elizabeth knew that he was merely trying to get away from her for a while and their mother, seeing as she had sprung taking care of their mother for the duration of time she would be gone. She could hardly blame him for wanting to be free with the time he had left.

"I panicked and I said no, now I regret it because what if he was asking because the procedure involves something going through my vagina. What am I going to do then?" Elizabeth wailed.

"You have to tell him the truth, just let him know that you panicked and you are indeed a twenty four years old virgin, let's see how well he would take you lying already. I am sure he would say 'oh wow, that's great. You are perfect for the job'"

"Are you being sarcastic right now, Mara?" Elizabeth asked pushing her playfully.

"There is no need for you to go back and tell him you are a virgin, just go with the flow of things. I highly doubt they are going to stick things in your vagina or you could ask your boss' son, the one who is always around you smiling and laughing at everything that proceeds from your mouth to deflower you, I am sure he would be more than happy to."

"You are disgusting" Elizabeth said making a face while Mara laughed

"Still, I don't think I should even agree to his demands of using my egg. I mean, look at it, I would have an emotional attachment to the child. It would be my child too, isn't that just to personal?"

"Are you crazy? You are backing out on having a child for the top billionaire of this country. Did you hit your head somewhere, my friend?"

"I'm not kidding, Mara. I don't want to have to give out my egg for his procedure. Why does he so desperately want a child anyways."

"Liz, you literally lose the egg every time you have your period every month, I don't know why you are finding it difficult to give out one now and remember your mother, she is the reason you are doing this. It is also not your business why he wants a child, just that you will be the woman to bear it for him."

"I don't know Mara, I'm having a real weird feeling about this whole thing, I should tell him that I am virgin incase that is going to ruin the whole process." I sighed

"If you say so, now pick these things. My fingers hurt from filing paper all day at the office, I need a new job and you, my friend are my gateway."

"If I did not know better, I would call you a leech." Elizabeth said laughing at Mara who stuck her tongue out and proceeded to lay on the floor.

She was having bad feelings about being a surrogate but it was probably because that was new uncharted territory to her and she was going to have to give out her egg but as Mara had said, what was the big deal?

...

Jason was having the most irritating time of his life. He wanted to be anywhere but in this meeting with this old couple who had no idea what they wanted to do with their money.

"Mr Badggerman, I believe your wife is right. You both should have a joint share in our company, seeing that all of your properties are in both your names."

"I don't want that! I want separate shares from my wife's." The man yelled.

Jason was sure he was probably deaf in both ears because he always yelled.

"You cannot do that, we agreed to always have our money and properties together, this would not be an exception." The woman responded, yelling too.

Maybe she was also deaf, Jason thought

He tuned them out, his mind straying till it finally settled on Elizabeth, his surrogate... soon to be if she accepted his offer. She was a weird one, many girls would have jumped at the opportunity to bear a child for him at any time of the day but she... it was like she did not care about how important or rich he was, now that was intriguing and very weird.

After much argument, the woman agreed to a separate account only if her shares were bigger than his.

Jason escorted them out of his office and slammed the door but not before letting his secretary know that he won't be accepting any more clients for the day, he could already feel a migraine coming on.

His phone rang just as he was about to sit down

"Jason Rodrigues speaking"

"You would not believe what little information I just found out the girl you asked me to research."

Jason's ears peaked up at the mention of Elizabeth's name, he had employed a private detective to conduct a background check on her to be sure of what he was getting into.

"Spill"

"She has a sick mother, did she tell you that? Her mother has been diagnosed with cancer and she needs a lot of money to treat her. She is in dire need of the money but so far she is a very quiet and intelligent Individual, no scandal whatsoever."

"Thank you" Jason muttered, hanging up the phone

Her mother was sick, he thought to himself.

He had been wondering why a person like her would want to be a surrogate but now he knew and suddenly an idea popped in his head. He was going to take care of her mother's surgery and also pay her double for her egg, if she needed the money as badly as the detective had said then she wouldn't reject such a generous offer from him.

"Interesting" Jason growled..