Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 172

OLIVIA

The past two weeks passed with Ethan and Marcus doing background checks on the young woman we chose, to be our surrogate, Marcus liked the young woman and so did 1. But he had a feeling about her and didn’t want us to go ahead without checking her out. When Ethan heard about that, he offered his services as well.

They had been at it for the past two weeks and would meet every evening to compare notes. If you ask me, they finished their investigation two days after they started and were just buying time saying they were still busy. Marcus was starting to enjoy Ethan’s company and were now starting to establish a real friendship.

I liked that, Marcus had no friends there, all his friends were back in London, he needed to have someone here to talk to other than me, as much as I wanted them to be friends, they were not going to do that at my expense. I walked to his study to talk to them about the issue at hand

I could hear laughter even before I could knock. I decided to push the door and walk in, instead of giving them a warning by knocking. I pushed the door open, and they were sitting on the couch with drinks on hand. “Just as I thought,” the laughter ceased, and they looked at me.

“Love, we were just taking a break, we will get back to it now.” Men! Couldn’t he tell that it was too late to lie? “Is that so?” I questioned as he walked back to his desk and took a seat. “Yes, love.” I looked at him with my eyes narrowed giving him a chance to change his mind.

in defeat. “Fine, we

you have been done

them to stop but didn’t have an excuse to continue with them.” men! “Why do you need an excuse when you can just be friends?” they shared a look

with “Everything is as is on the forms. She has no parents as

he sighed then stood and came to sit next to me. “It’s not about being convinced my love. Her information checks out and everything. But, for some reason, something doesn’t feel right. It’s not about trust either.”

Or if you wanted to go to the shops but something stops you from going then only to find out later that there

more people until we get someone you will be comfortable with or we stop the process?” the ball was in his court, I didn’t know what he wanted. Frankly, I felt like he just wanted to stall.

is having this baby something you want? Because if it’s not then that is not a problem.

He will be a piece of me, of us and I want nothing more

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about because the explanation you gave is not very convincing.” He sighed. “You know what, forget I said anything. We did the checks

now and had to think of each other’s feelings. “No, my love, I am alright, I promise. I will keep an eye on her though when she is here, maybe with everything that happened with us, I want