Maybe we’ll succeed. Joan was thrilled, thanked Chase, and then turned to her grandmother. Grandma, we wanted to offer you to move in with us.
We have a big house, and I’ll feel much calmer knowing you’re with us. You won’t have to worry about housework. Oh, thank you.
I won’t refuse your offer. I’m so tired of being alone in this house, and I’ll have more fun, and I can help you with the grandchildren. I can’t get used to living alone.
I just can’t leave the dog and the cat here. They’ve been living with me for many years. Grandma replied tearfully.
Chase laughed and said, great, don’t leave anyone behind. We’ll take everyone with us. I have a big yard.
There’s enough space for everyone. Sally, we’ll make sure you feel at home with us. And I wanted to thank you so much for raising such a wonderful granddaughter as Joan.
Now we’re all one family, and we should be together, all together. A week later, grandma moved into Joan and Chase’s house. Sally was pleased.
She constantly admired the beautiful house and cozy room where she now lived. The kids loved her too. She told them stories and sang songs.
Joan and Chase were preparing for the wedding. They had already booked a restaurant and were discussing the menu. Just then, detectives called them and informed that they found Clarissa.
She’s currently at their agency, but refuses to meet Chase. She’s very afraid he won’t forgive her for running away from home, but she really wants to see her sister and hopes to meet her. Joan was very happy with this news and said to Chase, I’m going to the detective agency immediately.
I’ll convince Clarissa to come home with us. She doesn’t know that her grandmother is also here. I just ask one thing of you, my love.
Don’t scold her too much. I’m sure she ran away for a reason, not just because. And anyway, everything turned out well.
We have a family now. The kids are with us. Nothing bad happened to them.
Let’s forgive her. After all, she’s my sister, the closest relative. I don’t know.
We’ll see. Chase replied discontentedly. Joan went to the detective agency and saw a frightened Clarissa.
The girls hugged and cried like little girls. Sister, my dear sister, how good it is that the detectives were able to find you and that grandma told me about you. And you know, back then in Chase’s house, we didn’t become friends for nothing, did we? I thought it was strange at the time because we didn’t know each other at all, but we started talking so easily.
Tell me about yourself. I want to know everything. You grew up in an orphanage, right? I can imagine how hard it was for you to live there.
Do you remember our mom? What was she like? I don’t remember her at all. Grandma raised me. She wanted to take you with her, but she was afraid she couldn’t provide for both of us.
Forgive me, sister, and don’t be angry with grandma. She worried all her life that she couldn’t take you in. Joan whispered.
Clarissa sighed and replied, I’m also glad. Joan, that I have you now, someone dear to me. I don’t remember our mom either, but they told me at the orphanage that she brought me to them and left, that she was drunk and cried for a long time, but I was lucky.
I was adopted. They were very good people. I consider them my real parents, but that woman who gave birth to me and rejected me, I can’t call her my mom.
Sorry, I’m not angry with grandma, and I really want to meet her. A year ago, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. My parents were simple people.
My mom worked as an accountant, and my dad as an electrician. We were an ordinary family, and we didn’t have money for expensive treatment, and the course of chemotherapy that was prescribed to my dad by insurance didn’t help him at all. That’s when I decided to become a surrogate mother.
I thought I could earn a lot of money and help my dad with treatment. I successfully passed the examination at the hospital, and I was entered into the database. Then the family of those businessmen we met contacted me.
I probably didn’t realize what I was agreeing to then. It just seems that it’s all easy to carry someone else’s children and give them to the parents, but it turned out differently. It turned out that being pregnant with three children at once is very difficult, and realizing that you’ll have to give birth to these babies and then give them away is unbearable.
Throughout the pregnancy, you feel how the children move in your stomach. You understand that you are one with them, but you’re treated as an incubator. For some reason, I felt offended to be in that house.
I thought it was all very unfair. I even tried to seduce the father of the children. It seemed strange to me that I would be having his children, and he didn’t even touch me, but Chase didn’t seem to notice me.
He only talked to me about the kids, stroked my stomach, and dreamed of when he would finally see his little ones. In general, I wasn’t ready for this, and then his wife started to intimidate me. Those kids were unnecessary to her.
She thought I was her rival. She was afraid that Chase would fall in love with me, and on that evening when I disappeared, Mara started screaming at me and kicking me out of the house, threatening me. Mara said that if I voluntarily disappeared from their lives, she would pay me a good sum of money, but if not, she would kill me and the kids, so I got scared and ran away from there, especially since I really needed the money.
I decided to stay with a friend for a while. After all, my parents don’t know anything about this, and I was able to save my dad by transferring money for his surgery in time. Now he’s in remission and recovering, but when I started giving birth, my friend called emergency services, and they took me to the hospital.
I realized that I couldn’t show up at my parents’ house with three children. If my dad found out about it, he would probably die of shame. That’s why I refused the kids at the hospital.
I still feel like a horrible person. First, I broke the contract, then I left the kids at the hospital, and I deceived Chase. I just didn’t know what to do.
That’s why I don’t want to go to Chase’s house. I don’t know how to communicate with him. Joan, you were pregnant too, right? Who did you give birth to, a boy or a girl? Joan couldn’t hold back her tears.
Recalling those dark days, I have no one. My son died at birth, but it so happened that I first became a wet nurse and nanny for Chase’s children, and now I’m their mom, and soon Chase will be my husband. Sister, may I give you some advice? You should ask Chase for forgiveness.