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“Let’s goand do some exploring, shall we?”
He didn’t likethe impish smile on her beautiful face.
“Uh no. Itlooks downright creepy. There might be thieves and serial killershiding out in there.”
“Yesterday,I went in there all by myself.” Tugging at his hand, she gothim to move.
“Why wouldyou do something stupid like that?” He allowed himself to beled, albeit reluctantly.
“Because Ihappen to be adventurous. Come on, city boy, your yellow is showing.”
*****
In the guest roomOdette had assigned to him, Dion found himself staring up at theplain ceiling, a small curving his lips. He hadn’t broughtanything to sleep in, and had stripped down to his underwear. Odettehad found him some blankets and, after finishing the bottle of wine,they’d turned in for the night.
She’d draggedhim into the old warehouse and used the lights from their phones topick their way through broken floorboards, cringing at the scent ofmold and mildew.
After a half an hour, he’d purposefullydragged her out of the stale air and headed back to the house.
The time spent withher had soothed his frazzled nerves like never before. She made himlaugh and forget the problems and issues plaguing him. He’dbeen stupid when it came to relationships with the opposite sex.
He’d thought hehad it right with Amelia, but had turned out to be dead wrong. Now,he was reeling from the consequences and had almost brough thecompany down with him.
His mother hadn’tcondemned him even though she had reasons to do so, and for that hewas grateful. He was trying to put it all behind him now and Odettewas right. He was going to have to cut all ties with Amelia. Odettehad given him a new lease on life and he wasn’t going to messthings up again. He had something to look forward to.
Chapter 3
Even though she’dresearched the procedure extensively, Dr. Mary-Ann Mitchell, head ofthe clinic, and the one who would be leading the process explained itto them in detail.
“Knowing eachother is supposed to make things easier. You’re a healthy youngwoman, Odette, and normally I’d advise against being asurrogate as this will be your first time giving birth. You’vespoken about that aspect of it, I assume, and know all the risksinvolved?”
“We do.”Odette answered for both of them. Dion had insisted on accompanyingher to all the appointments, which had started two weeks ago. “Howlong will it take?”
“Not long.”The silver haired woman smiled at her. “We’ll proceed ina few minutes and you’ll need to lie flat on your back fornature to take its course.” She glanced from one to the other.“I understand that you’re friends- “
“Bestfriends.” Dion told her firmly, knowing what was coming next.“Our lawyers have already been through the legal ramificationsand we signed the necessary documents.”
The doctornodded. “Ilene assured me that it was all above board.”She paused before rushing along. “What you will be goingthrough – both of you - will be very intense and hormones willbe flying all over the place. There are going to come times when- “
“Nooffence, Doc, but I read everything. I know you think you’retrying to warn us of what’s to come, but we’re solid.”She exchanged a glance with Dion who nodded in agreement. “Weboth want this and are willing to work through all of it.”
He reached for herhand. They were both so caught up in the moment, they failed tonotice the look of interest on the doctor’s face.
“Odette isdoing me the favor of solving this problem and I’m going to bethere for her.”
“You had betterbe.” She said with a teasing smile before looking at the woman.“Shall we?”
“Of course.”Dr. Mitchell gave a disarming smile.
“A room isready for you.”
*****
“How do youfeel?” He asked a little anxiously.
“You realizeyou’ve asked me the same question three minutes ago, right?”She was lying back with her legs slightly raised as they waited forthe required time to pass.
“That’snot true. The first time I asked if you were okay.”
