"Wait let me get this straight, you want me to get fat?"
Cara does not know if she should be offended or threatened. Was this his grand plan to make her pay for the scene she caused?
It's nuts.
"Pregnant, so yeah," Alex wonders why it took time for him to say those words, it sounds about right to him, there was no need for fancy words. Besides, there is a 90% chance she won't understand his fancy words if he said it.
Cara stares at him like he has grown two heads. She is trying to figure out what he is thinking or if he hit his head on something while coming. After a long stare, Cara comes to a conclusion this is just a waste of time, she wronged him and this is payback, now they are even.
"You are going cuckoo, I am leaving."
This isn't a bluff, Cara is actually going to leave. She has had enough embarrassment as it is and after all, organ donation is still on the table.
Cara picks up her bag and stands up, Alexander probably thinks she is bluffing until she gets to the door, he realizes she is actually going to leave.
"A million dollars which you can use for payment of your mum's treatment and the rest, I don't care what you do with it."
Cara stops to she processes his words.
Alex had planned not to give her a dime, after all, she owes him, which was until he heard about her mum's condition, and he reconsidered. The money is to keep her quiet all through the process and what comes after.
"Hold up, did you stalk me?" As Cara's nature, she says what comes to her head, deviating from the important topic. Alexander wonders how that's all she could say after offering a million dollars to her, she should be thankful.
Alexander didn't stalk the crazy woman, he had no time to. So he sent Andre and others to find out all that he is to know about Cara Green. He does not know how Andre went about it, nor does he care to know, he is here before her, which indicates a job well done.
"Unlike someone, I have an actual job." Alex's voice sounds condescending as he intends for it to sound. If he truly wants to be honest, he is disgusted and annoyed with the fact that a woman like Cara would subject herself to being a thing of pleasure to men.
When Andre came to Alex with all the information needed, Alexander had intended to meet her in her workplace, Geisel's. When Alex got there he met Jim instead, and when he asked for her, Jim started blabbing asking how much he is willing to pay for a night with her. Alex was so mad at the little respect she had for herself and he wanted to reconsider his offer, he doesn't want his child to be birthed by a whore.
He is not that desperate.
Then he heard the loose mouthed manager say something about this being her first time and once again he reconsidered. Alexander believes the girl before him should be thankful to him, not asking stupid questions, he is basically her saviour.
"I hired someone to get info about you. How the hell do you think I got here?" Cara stares at him for a while not because she is thinking about anything, in particular, her brain has shut down upon hearing a million dollars, she needs to reboot.
Cara walks back to her chair, dropping her bag on the floor before taking her seat.
"Point taken," Cara still trying to process the offer, she produces a mental picture of herself heavily pregnant within seconds and it doesn't look great. A million dollars? That can solve lots of problems in her life. If she was willing to donate an organ, how is this any different? And she won't probably get a million dollars for any of her organs.
"So have you accepted the offer?" Alex doesn't understand what's taking her time to accept, it's quite easy. He is saving her from opening her legs for money and besides no matter how many times she opens her legs no one will give her a million dollars.
Cara wonders how insensitive the man before her his, thinking it's an easy decision for her to make. She hates his condescending tone and the disgusted look he has on his face. He looks at her like she is shit, so why would he what her to carry his child?
"If I accept, how do we go about it?" She asks, "There is no fucking way I will have sex with you."
She still has her pride. Although this douche as seen her in the worst way possible and knows about her situation, she won't give him the pleasure of having her.
"Having sex with you is not part of my priorities." He gives her an uninterested look. "Have you heard of Artificial Insemination or you are just dumb?" Alex is taking longer than intended in this unconventional meeting. He has work to do, stupid and irrelevant questions the woman before him doesn't fail to ask is pissing him off.
Cara balls her fist as she imagines punching the living hell out of the rude man, the only thing stopping her is the money.
"I know what surrogacy is." Cara raises her head proudly. She won't give him the joy of making her look dumb.
"Thank goodness," Alexander mutters under his breath but loud enough for Cara to hear. Cara doesn't care what people say but she couldn't help but wonder what this man thinks of her.
"So you want to bring a child into the world because people are bashing you?" Cara won't pretend to know how celebrity life is, she has always wished to be one but here she is. Cara doesn't seek people's approval, if she was a celebrity, it wouldn't be any different.
"I am 35, I have been trying to convince my ex-girlfriend for 3 years but she doesn't want to have kids." Alex doesn't want to talk about Liza or how their relationship was. It's too hurtful. "This is just an eye-opener."
When Alex told his publicist his plans, he thought Alex is crazy. Suing her is an easy way out but Alex isn't going to gain anything from suing her, but he can merge two scandals into one and people can eventually let go of Liza's scandal. Alex isn't going give Liza the joy of being the hot topic, he may not like Cara but he prefers her in every blog page than Liza. Since Alex doesn't plan on falling in love, sometime in the future he would hire a surrogate and that's another personal drama, he doesn't need. He is merging all dramas now and in the future together, he is going to make a beautiful and believable story out of it with the help of Andre.
What's going through Cara's mind at the moment is the 12 years age difference between them and how young he looked.
"I have always wanted a child, not with a psycho but I will take it." Alex might try to cover it under his blunt words, he actually thinks the psycho is beautiful, he likes the curly hair. He definitely wants his kids to have her curly hair as for her dramatizes, he can only wish for the best.
"You are rude, do you know that?" Cara folds her arms, frowning at him.
"Oh, I am sorry, what am I supposed to call a girl who did what you did?"
"It worked, I have your attention." Cara smiles at the man who has a natural boring expression on his face.
"When you accept the offer, doctors will run some tests on you, you will sign some papers and then you will proceed to live with me. "
When? Doctors? Living with him? these are all Cara picks from what he said and all them annoyed her.
But first things first, "Why do I have to live with you? Enlighten me." Cara asks.
If she is to accept his offer, living with him will be like a prison and this woman loves her freedom.
"Easy, I don't trust you with the pregnancy." He states. From what Alex as seen today, Cara is impulsive, she acts before thinking and he doesn't trust her energy. He has to keep a very close eye on her.
"You said when what makes you so sure I will accept."
He might be used to things going his way but Cara is going to think this through before she acts.
Alex lets out a low and short laugh before standing up, adjusting his suit then walking up to an already nervous Cara.
"Either you accept or go to jail for defamation." Alex is face hard, he tries to appear intimidating as possible to the fearless girl.
"Are you threatening me?" Cara doesn't believe his shit, if he wanted her in jail, she would be there now.
"It doesn't have to be. I want a reply as soon as possible, by as soon as possible, I mean tomorrow." He places his card on the table close to her.
"Gee thanks. " Cara mutters sarcastically.
"By the way, your boobs are still out." Alex has noticed this during their conversation but didn't care to tell her. He walks past her, opens the door and walks out.
"Asshole," Cara mutters under her breath, adjusting her coat.
Cara needs to think about the offer and she knows a little friend that helps her think.
Alcohol
She walks over to the bottle of red wine, ready to drown all her issues.
"Don't mind if I do."
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"How was it?" Cassie had ambushed her even before she came out from the Uber, now they are upstairs.
"Uneventful." Cara struggles to pull the left heel off her leg before throwing it to the end of the room.
"You had sex with a perverted old man, didn't you?" This is what Cassie had tried to prevent but now it has happened, she just wants to help her through the situation.
"I wish." Cara scoffed.
Cassie stands up, confusion was written on her face, now she is anxious.
"Okay, what happened?" Cassie holds Cara's hands stopping her from pacing around.
"The douche happened."
Cara wants to strangle him and she hates the fact that he has something she needs, the money.
"You mean Alexander Black?" Cassie goes from worried to fantasizing about the male Adonis.
Cara frowns at her friend who places her hands on her chest staring dreamingly into nothing. The guy may be hot but he is an ass and her best friend has to be on her side in this.
"Snap out of it, Missy." Cara snaps her fingers near Cassie's face.
"Come on, meeting Alex again couldn't be that bad."
Cara's phone rings just as she is about to tell Cassie everything.
It's Jim calling.
Cara rolls her eyes as she picks up the phone and swipes to answer.
"What?" Cara snaps. Not a way to talk to your boss when you are in need of money, but Cara has options now.
"I have a lot of men waiting for you, so be here in an hour. I might even tap it when you are done." Cara almost puked in her mouth. She hates that she subjected herself to this degrading insults in the first place.
"Fuck off, I quit," Cara yells into the phone and ends the call.
Cara had always imagined saying these words to Jim since she started working for him. It will be after she had been chosen for a major role in a movie or series and she going off to Hollywood. Things are far beyond what she imagines.
Cassie stares at her friend in shock, her jaw slightly dropping.
"Why did you do that? You still need the money, how will you help your mum? How will you get a new job?" Cassie starts pacing around, panicking for her friend.
"Don't you worry, I got this," Cara smirked.
It took a bottle of wine for Cara to come to her decision. There is nowhere else she would get such a good offer and she as to take it, for her mum.She slips her hands in her coat and takes Alex's card, then types his number to her phone while her friend paces around.
"Who the hell are you calling?" Cassie is wondering why she is calm about this, this is insane.
"Yes?" Alex's voice comes up, making Cara's focus shift from her friend to the voice.
"I accept the offer."
"I knew you would come around."
Cara can imagine him smirking and indeed, Alex is.
He won.
Faint knocks grow louder at each passing second Cara refuses to wake up. Cara throws her blanket over her face, groaning as her sleep-induced state slowly fades. She mutters a few unladylike words before sitting up, pushing her blanket away from her body. She slowly opens her eyes adjusting to the lightening of the small room. Cara and Cassie rented this apartment 2 years ago, not big but affordable. The house is always clean so you may not be quick to notice the old furniture that they use.Cara groans loudly when the knocks increase, she places her feet on the cold marble floor, getting accustomed to its coldness before standing up.She wonders who is at the door, everyone that she knows, know that you are waging a war when you wake Cara up. Cassie wakes up b
Cara makes her way out of her room feeling bested by the asshole, if she had her way she wouldn't leave her bedroom as a sign of protest but this is above her, it's for her mum. Cara groggily walks to the direction she found the stairs the first time, humming to "Paradise" by Baazi as she strolls to her destination. She stops when something catches her sight, from the corner of her eyes is a room. She turns around to see if Jon is coming. Nope, no one Cara should definitely not enter the room but when has she done what she supposed to do. Cara whistles as she walks into the plain colored room. It looks boring, it has to be Xander's room. Cara slowly shuts the d
DROP YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG ~~~ Xander and Cara manage to get past the paparazzi as they walk into his company, and Cara manages to ignore the stares of his employees as they walk into the elevator. "What did you mean by you will need me?" Cara asks him the 100th time and Xander ignores for the same amount of time. He presses the button going up, the elevator closes, protecting Cara from the stares. "Hello, you know it will be a lot easier if you just answer my questions." Cara waves her hands near his face, which irritates him enough to bring a response out of him. "Why do you always have to talk?" Xander speaks
"Before we go, can our new couple give us a kiss?" Loren says. Cara head snaps towards Xander's direction immediately those words came out of Loren's mouth. A kiss? She didn't plan for a kiss. Cara's heart racing but in spite of that she maintains a smile, she can't get off character now. "Come on guys, don't be shy." Loren urges. Xander turns to Cara as well trying not to show how uncomfortable he is with the situation, since his career and image depends on it, he finds himself leaning in. Cara heart almost stopped when she notices he is actually going through with it, she's is surprised he didn't just freak out and spoil the whole show given the fact that he doesn't like her. But since he is playing along, she might as wel
Warning Mature Content !!!"Where the hell are my clothes?" Cara storms into Xander's office in nothing but a white towel, which she's holding like her life depends on it.Cara woke up this morning, all chipper and happy since today is her mother's surgery. She even showed early, which she hardly does but the Asshole; called Alexander has a way of ruining her joy. She walked up to her closet to find out that all her clothes are gone and is replaced with a new set of clothes.Xander picks his cup of coffee, taking a sip before looking up at the raging woman in a towel. Xander always starts is day with silence which is now ruined.He drops the cup of coffee on the table, "I got you new ones, or are you blind?" He raises his eyebro
~~~~Xander's eyes flutter open, as he hears low sobs in his room. He shuts his eyes again and then opens it, trying to adjust to the bright sunlight that is coming from the large window of his room. His head is banging, like a building under construction. He hears movements, and it finally clicks. Someone is in the room with him, he sits up and to his surprise, it is a Cara fully clothed trying to sneak out of his room and then it all registered.Holy shit!"Did we?" Xander asks, looking down at the sheets and he is indeed naked.Fucking Hell!Cara stops upon hearing his voice, all she wanted was to escape before she b
Every woman has thought about getting pregnant and having a kid at one point in their lives, the same as Cara Green. Young Cara always dreamed of having a relationship like her parents and building a family just as her parents did. She wishes to have a man that looks at her the way, her father looked at her mum and she wants her kid to be happy just as she was. For that dream to come true, she has to be prepared, mentally, physically and emotionally. Although Cara hasn't always worked towards the dream, with many pregnancies scares, the 23-year-old is lucky to not have been pregnant at 17. She had offered herself to get carry a baby for a stranger a few weeks, and she didn't even understand the gravity until now. Cara is actually pregnant, she has something growing in her. "What are you going to do?" Cassie walks over to the bed
~~~~~"Wow, you should see this?" Dianne says, pushing her phone over the counter. Liza hands her friend a glass of wine before picking up the phone. Her blood boils as she set eyes on a black and white picture of Xander and Cara goofing around in front of a camera. She thought she knew the true meaning of heartbreak when Xander ended things with her, it turns out the real heartbreak is seeing him moving on. "I could swear you guys broke up 2 months ago, he sure got over you quickly." Dianne mocks."Shut the hell up." Liza hands Dianne back her phone violently, as she walks away from her. Dianne smirks with the knowledge she got to the blonde-haired beauty.Liza stops in her sitting room where she had
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16 YEARS LATER.ALEXANDER'S POINT OF VIEW."Put me down," She chuckled as she wiggled her legs.I opened the door of our room, taking my wife inside, and closing the door behind us using my leg."Alexander." She whined, I took a little spin which made her giggle.Almost immediately, I felt my back snap stopping me from spinning. It's a sharp pain that pushes through my entire body."Are you okay?" She looked up at me worried, almost as if she heard it snap."Yeah." I lied through the back pain. I slowly put her down trying to prevent myself from falling.With this annoying back pain, my doctors say I should refrain from
"Hey, long day?" Cara looks up at Xander as he walks into the sitting room."Yeah," He drops his briefcase on the couch across hers and then walks up to her. "But it's better now." He mutters as he brings her chin up with two fingers before placing a kiss on her lips.Cara smiles. He puts his hand on her baby bump."How are you two doing in there?" He whispers putting his head down to her bump."Wanna talk about your day?" Cara asks.
"What are you doing?"This is it, she has to make a decision. It's either flight or help. Her hands are shaking, her heart beating fast, the sound of Cara in pain is not helping her think.Why can't she actually walk away?Growing up, people around Liza were scared of her and what she is capable of, including her mum who since Liza was a kid noticed that she didn't have an innocent mind as most kids do. She became more scared of her when Liza, after an argument with her mum, burnt down the house with her in it.Luckily her mum survived but her mum's assistant suffered burns. She didn't get punished for her actions, Charlie paid for the damages as he always does.
"Prove it," such simple words but as every day passes, it becomes harder for Alexander to decode its meaning. How else is he to prove how much he loves her? He thought ordering his security to never let Liza into his house and company is proving it. The flowers every morning at her doorstep, sleeping in his car just outside her house every day, the daily words of affirmation he texts to her every morning and night before she goes to bed, isn't that proving it? The fear of the break becoming permanent is running through Xander's thoughts and these fears are slowly eating him up. Usually, he keeps busy when emotionally stressed, but it's different now, he doesn't want to do anything. So he didn't. Today, he didn't send flowers and he also didn't stop by at her place at night. He stayed home and got drunk.
"Say something," Cassie whispers after offloading her past to Xavier. He has been quiet through it all and this is unsettling for her. Xavier raises his head and looks at her, "Thank you for sharing." He says in a low tone. Cassie nods, trying to process his reply, and then she pauses for a second before she shakes her head, "Is that all you want to say?" "I mean, no one is perfect. I am definitely not." She shakes her head in denial that someone can actually accept all she has told him easily. "You are just saying what you think I want to hear." "No, because I know I am not a saint. I have slept with hundreds of girls, given them a good time. I probably should have gotten my money's worth." Xavier jokes. Noticing t
Cara peeps through the window for the thousandth time, she ensures the curtain covers her face as she spies on the BMW outside."He has been there all night," Cassie says behind her which makes Cara jolt up and release the curtain immediatelyCara walks away from the window to the couch where she takes her seat. "Don't fall for his dramatics."Alex hasn't left since Cassie dismissed him yesterday afternoon. Cara won't admit but she woke up a couple of times in the middle of the night to check outside her window. She has been uneasy."I was thinking of bringing him breakfast."Cara shrugs, "You are the one that cooked, suit yourself."
It felt good at the moment, like winning an argument but then you realize that you said somethings that you don't mean. By the time she took the video down, the internet was already on fire. The news gained more buzz than the time news got out that Liza and Xander broke up. Almost a dozen calls from Xavier and Xander, Cara even got some from Andre. All calls were ignored, and she turned off her phone. She cannot be stressed, the minute she got home, she ate and had a nap.As for Xander, when he saw the video, he could care less about the damage it could do to their already existing narrative, all he cares about is what set her off for her to make such a video."We had a narrative
"How dare he?" Cara scoffs as she paces around the sitting room ranting about Xander. Cassie remains mute, not knowing what to say.She had earlier told Cara to let it all out and now she is regretting it. Cara is indeed going on and on about how much of a jerk Xander is and Cassie is just seated nodding repeatedly."He walked out on me like he's the victim, I should be the one walking out on him," Cara says while Cassie nods.Cara's eyes widen like an evil mastermind who had just connected the dots. "He's trying to manipulate me with that stunt he pulled, but it's not going work. I am Cara Green and that shit doesn't work with me." Cara states and as always, Cassie nods. She continues ranting and Cassie continues nodding."You need to have seen the way he looked at me when