I gave my sister the one thing she said she’d do anything for ? a child. Two weeks later, she abandoned that baby on my doorstep and vanished without a trace. I raised the child for ten years until my sister showed up with a thick envelope and said, “You need to know the truth.”
After our parents died in a house fire, my sister, Nancy, was the only person I had left. Grief glued us together in a way that felt permanent.
So when she sat across from me one night, hands shaking, and said, “I don’t know who else to turn to,” I was already saying “yes” in my head.
Her husband, Daniel, stood behind her, tense and quiet.
“Please,” Nancy said. “Will you be our surrogate? You’re the only person I can trust with this.”
They’d been trying for years. I had watched her fall apart month after month.
“ Nancy was the only person I had left. „
“Of course, I’ll help you,” I said.
“Oh, my God! Thank you so much. We’ll pay you, of course.”
“Okay, but I’m not doing this for money. I’m doing this because you’re my sister.” „
Nancy gave me a soft, relieved smile. I took it for gratitude, but I later realized it was more than that.
She turned to Daniel then. “All our dreams are about to come true.”
“Of course, I’ll help you.” „
The pregnancy was easy.
I still worked part-time at a bookstore and still lived in my cramped studio apartment.
Nancy came to the doctor’s appointments. Daniel built a crib in their house. They named her Charlotte before she was born.
I tried not to get attached.
That didn’t work.
The pregnancy was easy. „
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