"keep it together Scar," I told myself as I made my way into the biggest fashion house in Newyork, Lux towers.

I was on my way to meet the man I'll be a surrogate for. Ever since I was accepted for the job I had been imagining how the man I'll be carrying a child for looks like, maybe the child will look just like him.

I had always wanted a child of my own though not in situations like this, where I'll never get to raise him or her, my baby will never even know my name.

It's so saddening but that's the price I get to pay for being born with the dumbest human on the entire universe. My brother Axel had debts with some pretty dangerous people. Am not sure how he got himself in the mess with the town's mafias but now they had him captive and they were demanding for a huge amount I could never even dream of.

I hate Axel for getting me into this mess but still I had to help him, he was the only family I had. He had been a father, mother and a big brother to five years old me back then. We had no house, no food, no parents but at least we had each other back in the days.This is the only way I could repay him, save his sorry ass. No matter how stupid and dumb he was, I still loved him more than I loved myself.

"Hello, " I greet the receptionist with a warm smile. "Am here for an appointment with Mr. Lux."

"Are you Mrs. Hayes," she smiled back resting her phone on the table. "Mr. Lux has been waiting for you for hours now."

So he was waiting. I took a slow breath imagining the sexy breathtaking CEO sitting in his office arms folded, eyes never leaving the door waiting for me to enter.

"My name is Hailey , I shall lead you to his office," she walked out of her desk giving me a good view of her red power suit. I bet she was paid alot for her to afford that outfit.

She led me to a golden elevator, far different from the ones I saw the other employees take.

"This is the VP elevator," she murmured having seen my confusion. "Only Mr. Lux uses it but since you are an important guest of his, he allowed you so."

"Okay," I uttered having not much to say. She seemed like a nice person, the kind that knows how to get a great conversation started. Plus she was gorgeous with her pink dyed hair and those freckles all over her face. Which made me wonder why he didn't choose her as a surrogate instead of me, she would make cute bouncy offsprings.

She opened the door for us and a woman slightly older than us dressed in a mid thigh vintage dress greet us.

"It's good that you hear, Mr. Lux hates to wait." The woman grabbed my hand and started to drag me hurriedly down the lobby till we stopped at one of the offices. It seemed to be the only office on the entire floor for some reason. There was also one I caught across his but it was not as big as the one we stopped at.

"Good luck, " she tapped on my back lightly, opened the door and pushed me in.

I yelped landing in with a fall. Before I could throw out my insults at her, the door was closed in my face.

"Nice way to walk into a room," I heard a deep husky voice say from behind me. There was something intriguing about, it seemed so soothing and a bit sultry, so sinful.

I turned around searching for it's owner and I saw him seated behind his desk. He had short neat dark hair slicked to one side, perfectly styled with a hint of gel, framing his chiseled features. He was beyond what the tv and magazines displayed of his beauty.

His shoulder were wide, his body built from under the Armani dark suit he wore. The top buttons of his shirt were undone giving me the slightest view of his well shaved chest. He sure was a sight, to drown in.

"Come here," he lazily lifted his finger, his grey eyes watching me with a calculated gaze.

"You must be Scarlet Hayes, my surrogate, not so?"

"Y..yes," I stuttered slowly making my way to him. There was something about him, he ricked of so much power, arrogance and wealth. I bet he knew how attractive he was.

"Stand there," he said his tone firm and I froze in my heels. Guess, this was not the right day to wear heels.

His eyes traveled my body from up to down, checking every bit of me he could see. With a satisfied grin he waved to the seat Infront of him.

My feet were beginning to hurt from standing for too long in the second hand strappy heels I wore so I literally collapsed into the seat.

His eyes never leaving mine he reached down at one of the drawers on his desk and pulled out some documents that he handed to me.

"Before we go further I need you to sign those documents. That's your pledge that if any of this goes to the media you'll not receive your pay and you'll be the one compensating me three times more than the pay you're going to earn." There was a way he made it sound more like a demand than a request but then what did I have to say, I needed the money,

I needed to save axel from those horrible goons, who knows the kind of torture they were making him go through. I hated to even think about it.

With shaking hands, I signed each and every page that needed my signature. I was nervous and I knew he could tell it from the way he was looking at me from the corner of his eyes.

"Good," he smiled taking the papers away from me.

"Did Doctor Raven tell you that implantation was cancelled out?"

"What!" I gasped obviously shocked. Was he out of his fuckin mind.

"We are doing this the old fashioned way, I can't afford word linking out to the press." He grinned.

"I swear, I won't tell anyone." I begged only for his smirk to go wider.

"It's not about you honey, it's about my name, I have so many enemies who would exploit any chance to get me down. Plus I don't want to risk the child's safety that's why you will also be living with me in my villa."

"What!" This one almost ripped my heart out. "Why wasn't I informed of this?" I more of whispered out the words so confused to even say them out properly.

"You didn't think you were getting that thirty thousand million dollars for nothing." The way he was smirking seemed like he enjoyed watching me squirm from under his gaze.

"This was not the kind of agreement we had," I muttered so taken aback by every thing he was saying.

" Come on sweetheart, you don't shoot me as the type that is so concerned with modesty, if you were you wouldn't be here?" He cackled.

I should have been offended by his words but I didn't. He was right. I was literally a whore for agreeing to even carry a stranger's baby.

"Where you looking for a sex slave or something?" I spat out with anger.

"No darling," he gave out a shallow laughter. "I can have any woman I want with just a wink of my eye at them. Remember am filthy rich and dashingly handsome," he said the last part with a wink.

He sure was so full of himself, something I wished the baby won't get from him.

"Then why are you hiring a surrogate, why don't you just get a girlfriend and impregnate her."

"That's none of your business," he sounded annoyed. But for some reason I was right, with his looks he was correct any woman would get to their feet for him even i myself but why was he going through all this.

He stood up, looked down at me dead in the eye and gestured for the door. "You have 61 days to get pregnant with my child the old fashioned way, I f you can't do that, then just walk out."

My heart was beating faster than it ever did in my entire life, I could feel the tears wanting to burst out from the corners of my eyes but I kept them in. Never once had I imagined myself in a life like this, like any other girl I wanted a decent job not just the small bar waitress job I had, nice place to stay, someone to love me.

But I guess this was all life had for me. And as the saying goes, when life gives you lemons juice them out and get that lemonade.

Shutting my eyes close, I raised my hands to the thin straps of my red wine borrowed dress, let them drop to just above my cleavage.

I didn't miss the dark shift in his eyes, the lust was something so naked in his eyes, I couldn't miss it.

"Get here, little dove," he tapped on top of his desk, his voice leaving no room for objections.

I made his way to the desk, tried climbing it but my hands were shaking so much for me to do it right. Suddenly I felt his impatient hands go around my shoulders as he helped me climb up.

Using his one leg, he pushed mine apart, widening me for himself. He moved closer till I could feel his leg brushing against my core. I gasped at the sudden realization how wet his slight touch made me.

He leaned in close to my ears, licked the side of my face, before biting at my ear lobe and whispered, "These are going to be the best 61 days of your life, I promise."