Chapter 8 -Compromise

Ella

Up until this point of my life, I’ve hated a handful of people. At the moment Mike and Kate are at the top of my list, but they aren’t alone. However Dominic Sinclair is very quickly rising through the ranks and making a play for the top spot. Mike and Kate’s betrayal hurt so much because I cared for them both, but Sinclair might be the first person I’ve encountered who I dislike this strongly after so short a time.

He’s looking me up and down with the bearing of a wolf deciding how to devour the rabbit in its claws, and I realize that’s all I am to him. All those intense looks over the last couple of years, every encounter, every smile – the entire time he’s been thinking I’m some lesser being, the prey to his predator. Maybe he’s like Mike and thought I was a particularly attractive specimen, but in the end they’re the same sort of monster.

“There is no offer you could ever make me that would convince me to give you my child.” I tell him sharply. “I am not for sale, and neither is my baby.”

“Now you’re just being stubborn.” Sinclair sighs, “digging in your heels because you don’t like me.”

“What gave it away?” I deride. For the second time, it seems like he wants to smile despite his better judgment, but again he holds back.

“Use your head, Ella.” He instructs patronizingly. “Let’s say I believe you didn’t do this just to cash in on a big pay day.”

“You obviously don’t!” I interrupt, earning myself a look so stern a shiver runs down my spine.

and I guarantee the judge

though my will to go through with terminating the pregnancy has gotten weaker and weaker from the moment I

He flashes his teeth at me, teeth that look alarmingly

I can see how this man acquired so much money and power, he has more cun ning than I know how to contemplate, with a clear killer instinct.

it or not. My best hope is to find some other job in that time, but even then the best life I’d be able to offer my

expenses. If you deliver me an heir, I will also pay you a handsome bonus, and give you anything else you like – a house? A car? A business

I’m not just a surrogate.” I remind him, feeling as though my heart was crumbling to pieces in my chest. “I’m this child’s mother. It has my DNA and it

his head. “This child will be a werewolf, and a powerful one at that – my genes guarantee it. It will be raised with its own kind. And it will have a wonderful life, Ella – I

why do you expect me to

have good reason not to trust you, but you have no reason not to

I combat, “you cost Cora her job, you cost me mine – even if you didn’t make the call, whoever did reported that I was begging

sperm ended up in your womb – a place it never should have been.” His foreboding expression softens for a moment. “And I truly

if I can get past their mother’s cruelty. “Money can’t fix everything.” I reply, “and all your promises – what good is having

if he’s some sort of

to live and have a good life, all my problems will be solved, and I can adopt a child that needs a mother as badly as

the end, I don’t think I have a choice. I have to do this. Knowing my baby will be loved and cared for, will have

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