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Hazel Rogers never imagined her mother’s failing heart would force her into the arms of a stranger. With hospital bills piling up and no time left, she signs a desperate contract— as a surrogate for a billionaire who she doesn’t know. Ace Milan is cold, calculated, and devastatingly powerful, a man who built his empire on control and keeps  his heart locked behind a fortress. Hazel is just a transaction to him. But when a scary accident forces her to move into his home, the lines blur. He becomes cruel, unpredictable—testing her limits with sharp words and colder actions. Yet beneath his ice is something else, something broken, watching her with eyes that never quite soften. As her pregnancy progresses, Hazel stumbles upon whispers of the woman who came before her—the first surrogate. The one who vanished. No one speaks of her, and Ace refuses to explain. But the house holds secrets. Locked rooms. Late-night phone calls. Half-truths wrapped in charm. And suddenly, the child inside Hazel becomes more than a contract—it becomes a target. Torn between protecting the life growing inside her and uncovering the truth about the man she’s starting to feel dangerously drawn to, Hazel is forced to make a choice. Walk away before she ends up like the last surrogate… or risk everything to unravel the darkness Ace has spent his life hiding. One thing is clear—nothing in this arrangement is what it seems. And some secrets are buried deep for a reason.

THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET : Her contract, His Heart

Two fucking weeks and she hadn't looked at me.

Hazel didn't say any word to me. Not like she used to but it just felt very diff this time. Knowing her usual tantrums I had been experiencing her to come up with one thing or another about wanting to leave but she hadn't.

She ate what the doctors recommended, took her meds, walked when the housekeeper reminded her. I'm sure it has been upsetting for her. It's not like I care, I just happen to enjoy stubborn persons. It's very much unlike me to care but the way she acts around m, it's tempting. She went about her usual routines not caring at all.

Honestly it pissed me off more than her every day tantrums ever did.

I wanted her to behave. That was the point of everything, right? I didn't bring her here to talk back or mouth off. I brought her here to carry a child.

Chapter 33