The Billionaire's Surrogate: A BWWM Pregnancy Love Story Read Online Free Page A

natural
competitiveness might have torn them apart instead it made them
closer. Unlike Christine’s humble roots however, Rudy came from
a well off New York family who, if not outwardly hostile, were still
ambivalent about having her in his life. Christine had hoped that
once they got to know her…especially after Rudy proposed, that they would soften up.
    It
was Max who had dropped the truth bombs on her. He’d told her
that they would never accept her, that she would never be good enough
for the likes of them, that Rudy would break her heart…she’d
hated him for it. And hated him even more when every one of his
predictions came true. Rudy left her at the altar for a white woman.
He hadn’t so much as tried to fight for her against his family.
Christine had wanted to stay and fight but Max had whisked her off to
an island on the Caribbean with her grandmother. They kept her there
for three weeks, plying her with alcohol and good advice; trying to
get her over the bump. All she’d wanted to do was leave, to run
to New York and Rudy; to make him see that they were meant to be. But
there was no way off the island except Max’s private plane –
and that was not available to her until Max said so. She had cried
and pleaded and begged but neither Max nor her grandmother listened
to her. They just plied her with more drinks and more soothing words
while she felt like she might go crazy if she didn’t move .
    Once the turmoil in her
head calmed down a little though, she decided that the best strategy
to ensure she got off the island was to pretend to be better. She
tried to smile; she toasted to her Rudy-free future, she audibly made
plans to move on. The more she did these things, the more relaxed Max
and her grandmother became. After a week of visibly relaxing she said
she should get back. She had her last semester of college to attend
and she needed to prepare for that. Rudy would still be in her class;
she would have to deal with that and not let it affect her grades.
She’d worked too hard to achieve her dreams to let this little
snafu trip her up. Martha and Max cheered her on, promised they would
do anything they could to make life better. Max even offered to get
Rudy expelled…though she was eighty per cent sure that had
been a joke.
    They left the island
that week and once they got back Christine made no sudden moves, just
got on with the business of returning gifts – even though her
grandmother offered to do it – and writing thank you notes to
anyone who had been of help to her or sent her a gift. Once she was
through with that, she made preparations to go back to school. It was
her last semester and most of the work was done. Her project was
almost complete and she was on the fast track to graduating as an
electrical engineer. Rudy would not be able to avoid her in school;
she would make him see the error of his ways. Christine was still
young at the time, only twenty three; she’d thought there was a
chance for them. In spite of everything he’d done to her, she
still thought she could turn things around.
    That hadn’t been
the worst thing to happen to her though…
    She
bought some new clothes and put in a long ‘Asian hair’
weave and revamped her look. She did her best to look the way Rudy’s
mother and sister did; sophisticated, svelte and sexy. She took a
dance class because she’d heard dancing made one move more
gracefully. She wanted every weapon in her arsenal she could get.
    When
the semester began, she kept clear of Rudy, as far away from him as
possible in fact. He didn’t try to talk to her or even explain
himself even though she hadn’t seen him since the aborted
wedding ceremony when Max and her grandmother had whisked her out of
there so fast her head had spun. Maybe if they’d given him more
time, he would have…
    The
semester wasn’t too hard, most of the work was done; Christine
was mostly on autopilot but she was getting by. And then there was a
test, and a book of Rudy’s