Clause Four

BWWM Mafia Surrogate Secret Baby Triplets Romance

Imani signs the contract because her sister's rehab bills stopped being covered in April.

Nikolai Vasiliev wants a child. Not a wife, not a family, only a child with no records anywhere, because in his world a piece of paper with his name on it is how people die.

The terms are cold. Scheduled nights. Separate rooms. No kissing. No feelings.

The ultrasound shows three heartbeats.

Then she overhears what he agrees to on a porch in June, and she walks up a hill with a radio in her hand and never comes back. That night the house burns down. He spends two years believing he killed her.

He finds her in Montreal with three toddlers and a recording she's never played for anyone.

He wants them safe. She wants the truth on the record. Neither of them was wrong and that's the problem.

Confusion, repetition

Several of these stories have the same storyline, same situations e.g. babies who won’t speak. Lost interest.