The Billionaire's Double Surrogate: A Billionaire Pregnancy Romance

by Cj Howard

  Eva grinned and rubbed her own belly too. “He’s doing wonderfully. He’s a strong little boy, and he’s determined and good, and a little naughty, just like his daddy. His daddy decided that it would be best if we got back together, so things are going very well that way also.”

  Jasmine was certain that she had misheard the words that came from the woman sitting across the table from her. She blinked a few times and leaned forward slightly. “I’m sorry… did you say that the baby’s daddy wants to get back together with you?”

  Eva nodded and patted her belly. “Yes, he does.”

  “I… I thought that you were having a surrogate baby for someone in the Silicon Valley.” She said in confusion, trying to sort out everything that was going through her mind at that moment. It couldn’t be. There was no way that Eva could be right about what she had just said.

  “Oh, well, it was a surrogate pregnancy at first, but it was for my old lover. He said he wanted a son, and so as a great friend, I told him that I would help him, and I would get pregnant through invitro and give him a son, so that’s what I’ve done, and that’s what I’m doing.

  The wonderful part is that this pregnancy has really given Cameron some time to think about what we had and what we lost, and now that he’s thought about it, he wants it back. He wants me back, and now the baby with me. He and I will have a family.” Eva was bubbling with joy and happiness.

  Jasmine thought that she was going to be sick. She tried to keep herself as still and as calm as she possibly could. “You had a relationship with the baby’s father and now he wants you back again?” She was nothing short of astounded, though she was doing her level best not to show it at all, though it took everything in her.

  “Yes, he and I were such hot lovers not so long ago. I did this surrogacy for him as his friend, but now because we are having a son, he is so excited that he wanted to start our affair back up, and so that’s what we’ve done. I stay the night with him now and then, and I’ll tell you a secret. The sex, it’s so good. It’s better than it ever was before I was pregnant!

  That’s a good thing, because since he’s so excited about this baby boy, he’s already talking about the babies that we are going to have after this one. I guess that we can keep on practicing and keep on trying until it happens, right?” she laughed and patted her belly.

  Jasmine couldn’t sit with Eva much longer. She made herself make it through one cup of tea, trying not to listen too closely as Eva prattled on and on about Cameron, and then she gave Eva a half smile and told her that she had another appointment that she had to get to. She waved goodbye to her and somehow made it to her car, all the while doing everything that she could not to burst into tears and come apart at the seams right there.

  She made it home and when she got safely into her house, she collapsed on the sofa in the living room, crying until she could not see anymore, and until there wasn’t another tear in her to cry. She could barely speak when she got on the phone to Kelly, leaving her a message to please come right away, that she was desperately needed.

  Kelly came over right away and went to Jasmine where she was laying heartbroken on the sofa. Kelly didn’t even need to ask, she just hugged her and sat beside her, holding on to her.

  Through sobs and choked tears, Jasmine was able to tell Kelly what happened when she went to meet Eva. She shared what she had already known, and then what Eva told her that day. Kelly held Jasmine to her neck and hugged her, rubbing her back and comforting her.

  “Jas, I have been telling you, and I’ve been right all along, you just need to focus on having this little baby and then handing it off to Cameron when it’s born. After that, and I mean right after that, you leave. You don’t have anything to do with it anymore.” Kelly sounded as if she couldn’t possibly mean it more.

  “But…” Jasmine began, looking at her friend, “What if he doesn’t want this baby? I mean, he’s back with Eva now, and they’re having a son. That’s all he wants is a son! Why would he want a daughter with me when he’s having a son with her, and they are a couple now, a family! Why would she want to raise my daughter in her household with him? She was telling me that they are already talking about the other children that they will have.”

  She began to week again, and Kelly rubbed her arm. “We talked about this. If he doesn’t want the baby, then we’ll keep it, and we’ll give it a good home. You’ll be the mama and I’ll be the auntie, and life will be good. It’ll still be the greatest blessing that you ever have.”

  Jasmine sighed and looked at her. “That’s what my doctor said, too. We… we went out on a date. I thought that going out with him would be a good way for me to try to forget Cameron, and we talked about Cameron and the baby and he’s the one who told me that Eva is having a boy. He thought that he was telling me that she was carrying Cameron’s baby, but I already knew that from where I met her in the lobby at his office. He told me to keep the baby, and he was interested in dating me whether I wind up keeping the baby or not.”

  Kelly groaned and shook her head. “Jasmine, you listen to me. You stop dating while you’re pregnant. Seriously. You’re going to drive me crazy. You have hormones going every which direction right now. The last thing that you need to be doing is dating anyone. You need to focus on your store. Now, if this nice doctor man is still interested in you after you have the baby and dust has settled either way, so whether you keep the baby or not, if he still wants to date you when it’s all done, then fine, date him, but not before.”

  An almost laugh came from Jasmine as she nodded. “Okay. I know you’re right. I should have been listening to you all along. I wish that I had been. I’d be in a lot less pain right now, and much less of a mess.”

  Kelly waved her hand in the air. “Well none of us ever listen when words of wisdom are bestowed upon us. We always think we know better for ourselves. I’m a card-carrying member of that club.” She gave Jasmine a smile, and the two of them talked a long while as they worked out what could go wrong, and what could go right, and both of them hoped for the best.

  The Final Chapter

  Jasmine had been ignoring all of Cameron’s calls when he called, and she had deleted all of his texts that weren’t about the baby. She had debated ever going into his office to see him in person again. It seemed to her that the easiest way to keep him up on the baby without going to see him was to mail him the information that Andrew gave to her when he saw her at her appointment.

  After two weeks of ignoring him, Cameron came to Jasmine’s house to see her and talk to her. She let him in, and he tried to hug her right away, but she stepped back from him and held her hand out to him.

  “I’m not going to allow that any more, Cameron. We can’t carry on like we were before. It’s not right, and you’ve got a lot going on right now that doesn’t concern me, so why don’t you focus on all of that and leave me out of it totally. Just… leave me alone and let me be. When the baby is born, I’ll sign it over to you, if you want it, but that’s it. There’s nothing else between us anymore.” She meant every word of it as she said it.

  He blinked and stared at her in surprise. “What is going on with you? I miss you! I want to see you! I need you… you can’t imagine how much I need you. It’s been so very lonely without you. I wanted to see if I could stay the night with you here tonight, and catch up. We seem to have been missing each other all of the time, and I don’t like it.”

  She shook her head. “I’m sorry that you’re lonely, but you shouldn’t be. You won’t be staying the night here tonight or any other night, ever.” She turned away from him coldly, and his mouth fell full open.

  “Why are you doing this? Why are you trying to break things off with me?” he stared at her in utter confusion.

  She glared at him and planted her hands on her hips. “I know about Eva, Cameron. I know all about her and the baby.” She knew that she didn’t have to say anymore. That was enough, and then he’d know that she knew all of it. She knew everything.
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br />   Cameron could not have possibly been more surprised than he was at that moment. He could only stand there in silence with his mouth hanging open and his eyes wide with fear and incredulity. “How… how did you know?” he asked in little more than a whisper.

  Jasmine shrugged. “I met her at the doctor’s office and now we’re….” she hesitated as she tried to make herself say the word. “We’re friends.”

  He could only gape at her.

  “I’ve got another surprise for you, Cameron. This baby I’m carrying is a girl. I know full well how badly you wanted a boy, but I’m sorry, this one is a girl. If you don’t want it, then that will be fine. I’ll take her and I’ll raise her on my own.” She couldn’t believe that the time had finally come to tell him, and it was all in the open.

  “A girl?” he whispered as he glanced down from her eyes to her wide round belly. Then he closed his eyes and groaned. “I wish you had never met Eva. I wish that you didn’t know about that.”

  “I know you don’t. I have known for a long time, and I kept waiting for you to tell me, for you to bring it up and let me know… to be honest with me, but you never did. You just kept it hidden from me. One huge secret, and now I find out that there are more secrets that I never knew about. Well, I don’t need the secrets, and I don’t need lies.” She felt the tears that were stinging at the back of her eyes come forward, flooding her vision.

  She wiped at her face and walked over to the door, grabbing onto the door handle and pulling her front door open as she looked back at him.

  “I can’t believe that you know about Eva. That’s… I just can’t believe it.” he stammered.

  She held the door open and stared straight through him. “You can leave.” She said simply and quietly.

  He wanted to stay and try to work it out, but she wasn’t having it. He picked up his jacket and walked to the door, turning to look at her as he passed her. “I’m sorry.” It was all he said as he walked by her and headed out of her house and down the stairs.

  As she closed the door sharply behind him, she burst into tears and went up to her bedroom sobbing,

  Cameron wasted no time in looking to his best friend for help. It was the first place that he went to after he left Jasmine’s house.

  Justin was at home, mowing his lawn in the back yard. He turned off the mower when he looked up and saw Cameron coming toward him. “What’s on your mind there Cam?” he asked with a light-hearted tone as Cameron came to him.

  Cameron’s face was red and Justin could see that he had been crying. “Oh no… what happened? What’s wrong?”

  “Everything. Everything is wrong and I need someone to talk to about all of this. It’s ridiculous. It’s out of control.” Cameron waved to him and then turned around and headed back into Justin’s house, and went straight for his bar. He poured them both a drink and then gave Justin’s to him when Justin came in to the room a moment later.

  “Wow… double scotch. So… what’s up? What happened?” Justin asked, searching Cameron’s face.

  He sighed heavily and took a long pull from his glass. “So, you already know some of this, but I’m going to glaze over it, just so you can have the whole picture.”

  “Okay, I have my drink… go.” Justin sat down and looked at Cameron.

  “You remember when I first decided to do a surrogacy pregnancy program. I had decided on one surrogate mother. Just one. I only wanted to start with one child. I interviewed several women and finally chose Jasmine to carry the baby.” he began in a level tone.

  Justin nodded. “I do remember that.”

  “Then, after I left the doctor’s office and had it all squared away, Eva came to see me as a friend.” Cameron said and he began to walk around the room as his mind went over it all.

  “I still don’t know why you’re friends with her. You broke up with her, but if you want to be friends, then okay. So she came to see you as a friend.” Justin sipped on his scotch and Cameron continued to walk around and pace.

  “She knew how much I wanted a son, and so she made this offer to carry another baby for me, so that I’d have a better chance at having a son; I’d have two women both pregnant at about the same time, and my chances of having a son would be much better. I wasn’t for it to begin with, but then she talked me into it, and I said yes.”

  “Famous last words,” Justin said as he watched Cameron walking around the room.

  “Now, fast forward to recently. She shows up in my office and tells me that she misses me and she wants me back. She wants to be in a relationship with me again, and she’s carrying my son. It’s official, it’s a boy, and she wants to get back together with me and start a family.” He groaned and lifted his glass to his lips for a quick drink.

  “What did you say to that?” Justin asked curiously.

  “I said no! I said I was seeing someone else. I wanted someone else. I broke up with Eva. I don’t want her back.” He sighed and walked over to the sofa, sitting down on it beside his best friend.

  Looking at Justin, Cameron sighed and spoke in a weary voice. “Jasmine isn’t speaking to me, at least, not about anything but the baby, and even that isn’t much at all. She won’t talk to me about herself or me, or about us. Other than that, she isn’t having anything at all to do with me. She thinks that Eva and I are back together, and she’s giving that a chance, and that’s great except that I don’t want Eva. I want Jasmine, but Jasmine doesn’t want me!”

  Justin watched him and then nodded sagely, “Leave the women alone and just take the babies.”

  “I honestly don’t know what to do.” Cameron said in a low voice, leaning back against the sofa and staring straight ahead.

  ***

  Andrew looked over his plate of Indian food at Jasmine and beseeched her imploringly, “Jasmine, I know that you can see all of the good reasons why this is bound to work out perfectly! Honestly… it’s the best decision that you could ever make. I can’t see how there could be any hesitation on your part at all. You keep your baby girl and be mine. We’ll be together. We’ll raise her. You won’t be alone!”

  Jasmine sighed and frowned. “I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I haven’t made up my mind yet, but I did tell Cameron that this baby is a girl, and he left my house and I haven’t seen him since. That’s partly because I told him I didn’t want to see him, but I still have no idea if he’s going to want this baby girl or not. So, I don’t know yet if I’m keeping her or not, and I don’t know anything at all yet about you and I.”

  “Listen, just keep her. Don’t even bother with him or mess with him. Just walk away from him altogether. There’s not even a reason to talk to him or be around him at all. Just let him go, and keep your daughter, and then you and I will take care of her together. We can do that, you and me. We can do that.” he looked as if he was swearing a vow to her.

  She had agreed to go out to dinner with him again thinking that it would be some good peace of mind and that it would be helpful in keeping her mind off of Cameron, at least in some small way, but the whole time that they had been out to dinner, all that Andrew wanted to talk about was her and him and the baby girl that she was carrying and how Cameron shouldn’t have Jasmine or the baby.

  Jasmine didn’t stay out with him for very long as the conversation didn’t stray much from those topics and that was exactly the last thing that she wanted to talk about. He took her home and walked her to her front door again, as he had before, and just as he had before, he tried to kiss her.

  He didn’t start with her cheek at the end of the second date, he reached his hand up to hold her cheeks in his palms and leaned in to kiss her lips. She let him at first, hoping that it would push Cameron even further from her mind, but all it did was bring him that much closer. She could only remember his embrace and think of just how powerful and wonderful his kisses were.

  She turned away from Andrew again and he sighed in frustration and impatience.

  “I’m sorry, Andrew, I really am. I’m trying,
but there’s a lot going on right now and I just need to get through some of these changes. I hope that you can understand that. I’m going to need some time. Maybe a lot of time.” She pulled herself from his arms and went into her house, closing the door.

  She heard his car drive away and felt the flood of tears as they burned her eyes and spilled down her cheeks onto her face. She knew why she hurt so much as the tears fell and she went to her bed and wept until she fell asleep. When she woke up she knew why the pain was still very much there and why it wasn’t going anywhere.

  She was in love with Cameron and it didn’t matter that he was with another woman, and it didn’t matter that he was trying to be with them both. It didn’t matter that they were both having his children. All of that was wrong, but none of that hurt her enough to make her stop loving him. Nothing that he had done to that point was enough to make her stop loving him and wishing every moment that she could be with him.