8 Hello

"Pah!!!!!" she threw a slap across his face, not just cause he asked for something like that but because he had the guts to look down on her, the fact he even thought of such a thing made her even more pissed.

She opened the car and got out of it without saying a word to him.

Ji hoo placed his hands on his face, he was furious, how dare she lay her filthy miserable wretched hands on me. he thought to himself as he drove past her angrily, good thing she hadn't left the estate gate she took a cab and went straight home, she wasn't in the mood for any more drama, she needed to weigh her options right now, and the best option right now was to sign the contract and carry a stranger's baby, at least she'd still have a little pride left in her, she walked Into the house,

"I feel the anger in your steps, what happened were you able to get the money, what happened!??" her mother asked one question after another,

"where is Han Jae?" she asked ignoring all the questions

"in school? is there a problem?"

"no mother, there is none I've decided to accept the contract; I'll carry the pregnancy but I'll have to leave the house, the moment I sign it I'll be saying goodbye and I won't be back till I'm done with it. that is after deliver and nurse the child."

"Eun Ha" her mother called sorrowfully.

"It has come to this mother, this is the result of being irresponsible. Father has finally ruined my life," she said tears flowed freely down her cheeks.

"it's over" she cried uncontrollably, her mother moved closer to her and held her as they both cried, one would think she was going away forever, the grief her mother felt was more, it was like she was losing a child to gain a husband, not like he was worth the sacrifice.

He had made the mistakes and her lovely daughter had to pay for them.

***

"Mu Chen!" his mother called out angrily coming down the stairs of the Li mansion the stairwell was spiral-shaped with one of the most magnificent interiors one has ever seen. The bulk of it was made of gold, the living room had a golden TV stand and a 65 inches flat screen curved TV leaning majestically on it.

She walked up to him, he was sitting on the soft black coloured couch in the living room.

what is your problem? do you want the family lineage to die with you, you need to get married, and have children. His dad walked into the scene, it was the same old story, his mother was agitated and had threatened to kill herself if he doesn't get her a grandchild.

Mu Chen could ignore her tantrums but ignore a threat to her life was something he couldn't.

"I'm working on it mother, you'll get a grandchild," he said as he made his way to the room. he has had enough of the whole thing.

no one categorically understood why he didn't want to marry.

Since his parents were getting impatient he was going to source for an agency for surrogacy, they wanted a grandchild, a grandchild they will get.

Muchen didn't like seeing his mother agitated, he knew her health was deteriorating, the last thing he wanted was for his mother to get a heart attack or even worse a stroke.

She was stressing so much over the want for a grandchild.

He picked up his phone and dialled his secretary's number

"Chae won, contact the best Surrogacy agency and set up a meeting with them tomorrow"

"yes sir" he replied swiftly

he couldn't understand his boss.

"Surrogacy???" there are thousands of girls waiting in the line for him, including the Governor's daughter and yet he wanted a total stranger to carry his child"

he was such a weird man, he just couldn't phantom why

only Mu Chen understood why he had avoided all the women his parents had tried to hook him up with.

***

it was 3:00 pm Eun Ha stared blankly into thin air holding the golden coloured card. spinning it from side to side. she had been sitting there for about 2 hours, she knew the call she was about to make was the game changer for her, she tried to imagine how it will be, a single pregnant girl she was just 24 she had her whole life ahead of her and it felt like it was about to be snatched away from her. if depression was a person its name was Lee Eun Ha.

she picked her phone and punched the number she saw on the card, her fingers were trembling seriously, she cleared the number she had punched in. her heart was racing fast

she could hear the sound of her heart bit, she gazed at the wall clock, each 'tik Tok sound it made meant she was closer to either her father's death or making a life-changing decision, she braced herself up and decided to punch the number once again, as it rang her heartbeat was so fast, It this point, she had a huge surge of adrenaline, she felt fear, fear of the unknown, fear of what would happen after the call.

keep calm Eun Ha she tried to pacify herself.

"Hello" a thick make voice sounded at the other end of the phone.