《The Surrogate Is My Mistress|✔︎》Chapter 42: Alone
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As I wake up I find one of the nurses refilling the jug of water. "Morning sweetheart" she says as the doctor walks in. "Talk about perfect timing" he says with a smile making me chuckle. "Today you can go home. Isn't that great news" he says with enthusiasm. "Mr. Jacobs dropped this off. He said I should give it to you" he says as he hands me my car key. "Damn I had already forgotten I have a car. How are they?" I ask and his face drops a little.
"Well the baby is definitely healthy. Cathy and James don't look like their on very good terms though. They all left in a CPS car this morning" he says and my heart starts beating quickly. "Will they be alright" I ask. "Unfortunately I don't know" he says before walking out of my room.
As I sit on the edge of my bed I grab my phone. I go through my contact list as I look for James' name. After looking through it at least two times I realize that his name is not there. I go through my text messages and realize our texts have been cleared. I look through my phone as I panic. There's is absolutely no sign of James or Cathy on my phone. Our calls, texts, even Snaps have been deleted. Someone was here and they messed with my phone.
As I go through the people who could have done this, with Cathy being the main suspect, I realize it could have been James. Maybe he has decided to never talk to me again. He didn't even bother bring my keys to me personally. He never even came back yesterday. Maybe I'm never seeing the Jacobs again. Maybe it's better that way.
When I'm done I walk to the reception to let them know I've left. As I walk out of the hospital tears start rolling down my cheeks. "It's okay sweetheart your time will come" a lady says as she rubs my back. "Miscarriage?" she asks as she hugs me. "No I'm a surrogate" I say with a smile. "Oh baby. You did the right thing" she says hugging me tighter.
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I walk through the endless rows of cars looking for mine. As I stop in front of it I press the remote and it makes the little sound. I open the trunk and find all my bags and stuff in it. I throw my bag in there before walking to the driver's seat. As I climb in I find the box James gave me before the gender reveal party with the dress in. As I open it I find the same letter he had wrote that day. it read. Under it was pictures of us. Selfies that we took and of course the sex pictures Rebecca sent. One that caught my eye is the one we took with the baby at the hospital. My eyes start to tear up as I read the note at the bottom of the box. it read. I punched the steering wheel very hard as I was screaming. Tears fell down my face and they wouldn't stop. I can't drive like this. I grab my phone from the passenger's seat and call Matthew. "Babe can you come get me" I say as soon as he answers his phone.
I sat there just looking at her for at least two hours before Matthew came. It was obvious that she was also going through the most, and I hated the fact that I couldn't be there for her. I promised he that I'd be with her and here I am. But I'm a married man and I'm committed to my wife. Even though she's just a side chick she'll always be one of the most important people and close to my hart. What we had was more than just a fling. As Matthew holds her in his arms I start my engine and drive away before they see me. My heart sinks as I look at her for the last time.
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Rise
Su Xue, a woman in her mid 20s, is struggling both in paying rent and finding her path in life. Her latest stint has her trying to become a popular League of Legends streamer, though to poor results. One day, she is interrupted in the middle of a livestream by a surprise visit from her landlady. She is informed that she will be having a new roommate. The landlady’s nephew, Lin Feng, a 18 year old boy who has just transferred over to Shanghai for his last year of high school.Though initially opposed to it, Su Xue reluctantly agrees to the arrangement. She learns that the two share a common interest—League of Legends—and that he’s really amazing at the game. Lin Feng also reveals to her he wishes to become the best professional League of Legends player in the world.The next day. Lin Feng attends his first day of school as a transfer student at High School 13. He meets Ouyang and Yang Fan, and the trio find a common passion in League of Legends. Lin Feng is then introduced to Ren Rou, the president of the esports club with a fiery personality, and Tang Bingyao, a quiet bookworm with a love for money and a surprising talent for the game.A little about Lin Feng’s past is revealed. He was a once pro player, the youngest in history and a contender for the best player in the world. Until the finals of the Season 1 World Championship. There, he lost to his arch-rival, an equally brilliant Korean youth. That was the peak of his career, and also the turning point in his life. He stepped down from his team and disappeared from competitive play altogether. Now, after a four year long hiatus, he aims to make a comebackOver the next couple of weeks, Lin Feng learns about the upcoming Shanghai 16 School Tournament, and that his school’s esports club had performed especially poorly the previous year. He agrees to coach the club’s team and help them win the first place trophy this year. And so, he starts the members of the club out on an intense training bootcamp.Meanwhile, the Season 5 League of Legends World Championship is taking place at around the same time. Tian Tian, one of Lin Feng’s former teammates and best friend, is on one of the Chinese teams playing at Worlds. After a poor showing, he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Lin Feng witnesses everything in a viewing party with the esports club members and becomes worried.On the day of the Shanghai 16 School tournament, Lin Feng reunites with Tian Tian on the phone. He tells Tian Tian he’s going to return to the professional scene, that he’s making a new team and plans to invite him. But Tian Tian has to vow not to give up at Worlds and keep winning. Tian Tian agrees, and Lin Feng promises he’ll fight alongside him. Lin Feng then heads into his match with renewed resolve, to climb from the bottom all the way back to the top, and overcome the rival that defeated him so many years ago.
8 1136Phoenix's Requiem
Painfully shy and conflict-averse, Yun Ruoyan is a scion to a noble house only in name, a puppet embroiled in political machinations beyond her ken. At the tender age of eighteen, poisoned and at death’s door, she finds herself thrown out into the streets. Her relatives have all been executed, betrayed by her dear husband and her cousin. With her dying breath, she curses her own weakness and swears revenge.When Yun Ruoyan awakens once more, she is thirteen, transported five years into the past by the will of the heavens. Her death-defying experience has changed her: no longer is she the malleable creature she once was. But more questions await at every corner—what is the truth behind the birthmark that disfigures her appearance? What are the circumstances surrounding her mother’s mysterious death?Will the phoenix rise from the ashes, or will she fall once more in thrall to fate?
8 646Poison Physician Consort
Follow Bai Luochu on a journey back to the peak as she reincarnates into the body of an orphaned daughter of the former great general of the Cloud Water Nation.With the Three Great Immortal Sects in front of her, her mortal enemies who caused her death, how would she rise to the top again?With her astounding medical skills and ability to create heaven defying poison, Bai Luochu heals the crippled meridians of her new body and attracts the attention of all three princes of the Cloud Water Nation!
8 1749Rebirth of a Fashionista: This Life Is Soo Last Season
Cinderella went from rags to riches, but when you are already at the top, fate is more than happy to kick you down. A car accident kicks off Sheng Jiaoyang's reverse Cinderella story by trapping her soul in the body of a poor girl, leaving her to succumb to fate and wait for her Prince Charming to come to her rescue -- obviously not!Like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, Sheng Jiaoyang forges her own way back up to the upper echelons of society, clearing obstacles, taking revenges, and bagging her handsome and rich childhood friend on the way.If you are tired of reading about poor damsel in distress waiting for a man to rescue her, and wants a female lead that can carry herself to the top, Rebirth of A Fashionista is the novel for you!
8 274The Attack of the Wastrel
Her rebirth gave her a second chance at life. She was back with a vengeance and wanted to make those that had harmed her pay. But to those that helped her, she wanted to repay them. Her evil stepmother? She would slowly pull out her claws, one by one. Her evil stepsister? She would crush her pride. She thought that by getting her revenge for her past life, she would be happy in this life. However, she never would have thought that danger would chance upon her time and time again. The hatred from her clan and whether their bloodline would continue to exist, lay solely on her shoulders. Luckily, on this thorny path, someone had always been protecting her. "Third Prince, have you ever regretted being with me?" That person laughed lightly and peered at her with a loving yet weary look, "As long as I am together with you, I have no regrets."
8 1461Demoness's Art of Vengeance
Jun Xiaomo, notoriously known as “Lady Demoness”, finds herself chained and bound in a dungeon. Her hard-earned cultivation has been completely crippled, and she has no means of escape. Qin Shanshan, a lady she used to called her “close friend”, mocks Jun Xiaomo, revealing that Jun Xiaomo had been used by the people around her. Even her lover, Qin Lingyu was one of the masterminds scheming against her. Jun Xiaomo watches her life flash before her eyes and realizes that she had indeed blindly placed her trust in people. Her naivety had led to her current predicament. Jun Xiaomo wanted to end it all. However, she is determined to deliver a swan song. Over the hundreds of days tormented in that very dungeon, Jun Xiaomo had painstakingly painted a complicated formation array with her own blood. With a determined look, Jun Xiaomo burns her life force to activate the array. Her sole intent? To bring with her as many schemers to the gates of hell as she could. The bright red light from thearray intensified, and the end was nigh.…or was it? Jun Xiaomo opens her eyes and finds herself alive again; time had rewound right back to when she was sixteen years of age, albeit only at the eighth level of Qi Cultivation. Armed with the knowledge and memories of her previous lifetime, Jun Xiaomo is determined to learn from her mistakes and bring retribution to those who so deserve…
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