Marco gritted his teeth fiercely, as he felt the water fall and then roll down his handsome face.

"What the hell did you just do!" he exclaimed in an icy voice, as he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped himself, though without taking his eyes off her.

"What the hell did you just say!" she uttered in the same tone.

Her question apparently giving him satisfaction, he approached her like a predator stalking its prey and whispered in her ear.

"You'll have to sleep with me to fulfill the part of the bargain and until we have your little seed and mine, united in your pretty womb, we won't stop trying" he declared smiling.

"Well, get ready, because even with that damn contract, there are two things you won't see, the face of God, and you're inserting your little thing to put the seed in me, to end up in my belly" she pronounced mockingly, lifting her chin arrogantly.

Her words provoked the displeasure of Marcos, who felt offended by calling his penis a "thingy"; without thinking much about what he was doing, he pulled her forcefully towards him, making her hit him with her chest, and then he grabbed her neck and kissed her fiercely, while he felt the blood stirring inside him, not knowing whether it was because of rage or excitement, but he needed to subdue her, he wanted her to surrender to him, however, unfortunately, nothing prepared him for the pain he felt seconds later, when Lia kneed him in his intimate part, while smiling amused.

"You stupid bastard! Have you forgotten who I am?" she asked him, gritting her teeth in obvious anger.

"I don't care that you're the king of the world himself, I don't allow someone nasty to kiss me!" she expostulated as she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand with a disgusted gesture.

"Don't you remember your contract?" asked Paul to Lia, looking at her with disdain.

"I want to see the signed contract, I don't trust any of you, apparently you are people who like to humiliate people without resources, you want to impose yourselves on the weak to show your power, with me, you were wrong, for me, there are more important things than power and looks, don't think I'm the kind of person whose panties are going to fall down for a handsome man with money" she pointed out with determination.

Paul took the contract folders and handed them to her, they all looked into each other's eyes nervously, while she without hesitation went over the signed conditions with her eyes, being surprised by each one of them.

 

"Live with him until a year after the baby is born?" she asked the lawyer, ignoring Marco's presence, and raising her eyebrows in a gesture of disbelief "With this man I can't stand to live even a minute because at the end of that time, surely one of us will both be dead, he is hateful, haughty and snobbish.

"And you are an ordinary, wild and foul-mouthed, I don't take much pleasure in having relations with you" he spoke in a dry and contemptuous tone.

"Really? Well, for not wishing you well; otherwise you wouldn't be here forcing me to comply with this" he indicated batting the contents of the folders "Knowing that I find you the least attractive man in the world, I would be a thousand times more capable of making out with a beggar on the corner and not with you" looking at him with contempt, provoking tension in the man's body.

"Damn woman, I'll make her swallow her words, and I didn't like the idea of her before, but now, in the face of her rejection, it's her I want."

"Oh woman, don't spit up because I'm sure the spit will fall on you, you'll end up crawling for me, no one has ever resisted" he stressed mockingly.

"Dream on, my dear, it's free! The way I see it, you just want to project your desires by passing them off as mine" she stopped the confrontation of words and turned her attention back to the contract and minutes later smiled complacently.

"I have always known that lawyers are not to be trusted, but for you to take your lying to such an extreme, ending up even surpassing my strangest thoughts, is too much even for someone like you" she finished reading and looked at them with intensity.

"That's impressive, they're even going to tell me what I'm going to eat, I'm not supposed to see other men for the duration of the procedure, and you, doesn't the same apply?" she asked curiously.

"No, it doesn't apply to me, I'm a man, I don't get pregnant, on the other hand, in your case, I have to be sure that if you get pregnant, the child will be mine" he spoke as if she had little understanding, and they should explain precisely.

"It has coherence, I am not an irrational being and to tell the truth, as everything will be done in a little tube, I don't care if you fuck half the country".

Her words so frank and spontaneous shocked the men because they had never been with a person capable of saying what was going through her head, without thinking, as she did; however, the amazement capacity of the three came, when they heard her declare firmly.

"I'm going to fulfill the contract" the trio of men looked at her in disbelief, although seconds later upon ascertaining the certainty of her words, the corner of Mark's mouth lifted in a gesture of satisfaction.

"Don't say it like it's a favor you're doing me, it's not a feat for you to do it either, you'll do it because you have no other choice, you signed it in a fit of impulsivity, it gives you no other way out."

"It's true; otherwise I wouldn't do it; however, it will be done as it says here, no more, no less; look for the doctor, I need to know the process for him to remove my eggs and you the tadpoles, look for the test tube, put them together and do the corresponding because I'm not going to sleep with you, not even if the human species was about to become extinct and its preservation was in our hands", he said with annoyance.

"Then, it will be done as you say, and you will have to go live with me, I will send you with one of my drivers, you have two hours to pick up your things" he pointed out raising his eyebrows with an expression of delight.

"Ok, I figure you must live in a big mansion, so I have no chance of crossing you, then I like it because it will be like living away from you" he pointed out teasingly.

"What do you think? I'm going to give you a surprise because you will see me very closely, every day."

"Well actually, I'm not going to bring anyone to my mansion, that's why the place where we will be is an apartment designed for that, where only you and I will live, we won't even have service staff, if you expected to live like a queen you're wrong, you'll have to take care of yourself" she added smiling.

"Sounds good to me! Just like I hope you don't believe in getting a maid too because other than a surrogate mother for your son, I don't expect to be anything else, do you understand? Now tell your chauffeur I'll wait for him downstairs" having said this she left the room, as if she was a great lady, and they are mere mortals, leaving them all surprised.

"He who has faith in himself does not need others to believe in him". Miguel De Unamuno.