Episode 1

Back then we used to say "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," but what if life happened and you had to give up the one thing that you hold dear?

Your son! Your only happiness to your friend, a promise once made before and in a toxic and vulnerable state.

Some months ago, nine months precisely, Hanna and I were coming back home from the bar we used to work at. She had this strong desire to become someone in life, whereas I was rather focused on being happy. After all, I was in a healthy relationship with my ex-boyfriend, Beck. That bastard later cheated on me with a model from his workplace, but before he left, I didn't know that I was with a child.

I came to find out weeks after the breakup.

And my friend, Hanna, was already seeing someone. A billionaire, handsome, and also kind-hearted as she described to me.

Excited that my best friend had finally gotten her desire taken care of by the universe, everything changed when she came home one faithful night and requested the impossible.

She wanted me to hand over my child to her as her own; At first, I assumed it was one of her jokes, but her unhinged behaviour made me realize that she meant to say those words to me..

Hanna couldn't give birth; she had lost her womb due to some complications from the last abortion she underwent and also didn't bother to inform me about it.

I thought we were friends, and friends always shared everything.

Hanna's relationship with her billionaire boyfriend was tied down to her getting pregnant and giving him an heir, someone who would take over the "Lakewood" family name, as she told me.

"Luciano Lakewood." A young man with a business-like mind, and who's also head over heels in love with my best friend.

I shouldn't do this?..

But all I could think of was to help my best friend. I had a failed relationship, and I wouldn't want her to lose a man like Luciano Lakewood. Initials "L.L".

I agreed to help my best friend, but it was on one condition, and that was; that after I had given birth to my child, she had to employ me as his caregiver.

Hanna agreed without thinking about it and also promised to lend me a helping hand in whatever I would need in taking care of the child, at least for the next nine (9) months.

The first and second months elapsed, and Hanna provided me with everything I would need to take care of my son.

I went for a scan last time, and the nurse announced to me the gender of my child.

In the third and fourth months, Hanna and I stood by each other; she would come home to help me out, even after her extravagant marriage to Luciano. They've now been married for four months, and now, Hanna has to give birth to a child, an heir for the family.

She wore a pregnancy belly kit and pretended to be pregnant. I had no idea how she made everyone, including the doctor, an accomplice, but the day I gave birth, Hanna was also in the ward next to me, and that was how the exchange was made.

I handed my son to her, and from my ward, I could hear a joyful celebration happening.

Hanna was taken home the following morning, however, before she left, I was given some cash to take care of myself, and Hanna also promised to come home to fulfil the end of her bargain.

Can you imagine that months passed, and Hanna didn't return? I phoned her, but anything I did also went to voicemail. I also tried to call her parents, but they were so blunt and hurtful to me on the phone.

Did my sacrifice not mean anything to them? I've been stood up and blown to the heart again by the same person I chose to prioritize her happiness and not my own.

My parents were right when they said, "No matter how nice you are to people, they will always stab you in the back."

And Hanna was the perfect definition of an ungrateful and self-centred human being. Wouldn't it be for me, she would have lost Luciano and would have married someone else, at least someone with a womb.

I tried all I could to see Hanna, but she blew me off at every opportunity she got. Her inhumanity prompted me to seek employment in the Lakewood mansion as my son's nanny. That was initially the agreement I had with Hanna, however, since she was acting so devious, I decided to take matters into my own hands by applying for a job. And in the end, I was given the position as the caregiver to my child.

Hanna couldn't do anything, not because she had nothing to say but because it was quite obvious that no one in the entire city was willing to work for her. Rumours have it that she was dominating, selfish, and ill-mannered to her workers.

Doesn't Luciano know me?

He didn't. I couldn't bring myself to introduce myself, and not in the state I was before. He would have suspected and asked me about my child if I had previously shown myself to him with my pregnancy, so it was easy to play along.

"Sophia! Please come here!".

I had several things to do in the kitchen when I heard Hanna yelling my name. And as much as I would've loved to ignore her, she was my boss's wife, and Luciano would be willing to do anything just to make her happy.

And that includes releasing me from my job.

"Ma'am! You called??".

I brought back Ethan's milk bottle after cooking it in the kitchen.

She never does anything apart from going out shopping with her lavish friends and coming back home exhausted, like she did anything meaningful with her day.