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The surrogate mother.
I have never been frustrated, anxious and furious reading a book!
Once again Freida McFadden took me on a roller coaster ride.
The story starts with Abby at work and they threw her a baby shower party except she's not pregnant! she adopting a baby but right in the middle of the party her husband Sam walks in and pulls her aside to tell her the mother that they are adopting the baby from backs out of the deal and the mother wants to keep the baby. The party was cut short and Abby went home, it was a hard day for both Abby and sam. They have been trying to have a baby for a few years now and each time the pregnancy didn't take. Turns out Abby eggs were defective and she can't have a baby. Sam is fine but he is equally as devastated that his wife can't have kids. Sam is described as the perfect husband, he only has eyes for Abby even though he is incredibly handsome. As a math professor he gets a lot of calls from girls who found his phone number trying to hit on him, but he is a nerd and he's unaware of his sex appeal. Abby is a successful marketing director and her assistant Monica proposed that she became her surrogate, meaning that she could carry the baby for Abby since she can't. Sam was reluctant with the idea at first claiming adoption would be a much better choice, but Abby wanted a newborn baby and the chance of adopting an infant was slim they would have to adopt a much older child.
Finally Sam agrees for Monica to become the surrogate, they ran background check on her and everything checks out. Everyone described Monica as a good person, selfless and always trying to help those in need. Monica seemed like a wholesome girl, although she is very attractive buts he always dresses modestly and she always tries not to show too much skin with her choice of clothing. Sam and Abby also checked for health history whether there was any mental health or overall health issues but they found none. They even interviewed her roommate and she told them Monica is the best. After Monica went to a doctor to have herself inseminated with Sam's sperm in order for her to get pregnant then she would give up her rights to the baby and give the baby to Abby and Sam. Monica also signed a contract with them and she agreed to resigned at work when she started showing because she was Abby's assistant and it would be inappropriate for her to have Abby's baby at work.
As soon as Abby became pregnant she started to change, the first time Abby noticed a change was a night where her and sam was walking out of a restaurant after their marriage anniversary dinner, and Monica magically ran into them. Abby and sam gave her a ride home but instead of climbing into the backseat like a normal person who's getting a ride would do. She sat in the front and Abby had to sit in the back. Immediately Monica started talking about Sam's favorite movie then the rest was history Sam and Monica were quoting lines from the movies and bounding over math! Abby thought it was innocent. But then suddenly she's getting dates for meeting wrong at work and one night when she invited Monica over to her house for a dinner, she had to stay and work late because her calendar didn't remind her that she had important for tomorrow and she wasn't ready! was it a coincidence? I think not. Monica is Abby's assistant she has access to Abby's calendar she could edit and change dates as she pleases so that Abby can fall behind but no sweet Monica wouldn't do that, would she?. on the night she invited Monica for a dinner when she got home Monica was there with sam on the couch but hey get this now Monica is dressing sexy and she's wearing makeup and Abby couldn't help but notice how hot she is. Monica was calling sam "Sammy" and they exchanged numbers so that sam could come for her ultrasound appointments. Monica is calling Abby's baby "our baby" when speaking to sam. suddenly sam and Monica are texting all day and all night long, but Abby trust Sam she doesn't think he would ever cheat. Her and sam stopped having sex for an extended period of time and that's fine? that would ring bells in my head because if he's not getting it from me then where is he getting it from? But Abby just shrug everything off. She keeps messing up at work and she's up all night then Sam suggests she gets a sleeping prescription.
Suddenly Monica pregnancy is harder to hide at work but she now refuses to quit even though it was an agreement but it wasn't in the contract. Now she's thinking about going for a math major and going to Sam's school to take classes! like hello wake up Abby! Monica is trying to steal your man. I was so upset at Abby for giving sam the benefit of the doubt, he goes out to get coffee with the 23 year old woman who's carrying his baby and that's fine? that's seems like a date to me. Then sam always takes Monica to her doctor's appointments, one day Abby shows ups and she hears the nurses calling sam Monica's husband and he didn't correct them ? then Abby gets fired at work because her urine test came back positive for meth! she doesn't even take drugs where did that come from. Abby started suspecting that Monica was drugging her at work because Monica always brings her coffee for her. But s now you have a young woman with big boobs carrying your baby and you forget about me! this was all wrong. Then suddenly Abby's boss gets killed after her boss asked her to meet at the office because the boss began suspecting Monica was the one who put drugs in Abby's food or coffee after they found Adderall in Monica's desk. Abby became the prime suspect because she had motive to kill her boss after she was fired, sam is telling her to take a plea deal and go to jail for 15 years but Abby kept telling and the lawyer sam got for her that she didn't do it. So she went to investigate on her own she found out the roommate wasn't really Monica's roommate she was just a random girl who was paid to lie. The parents Monica introduced them to weren't really her parents.
turns out Monica was sam's students many years ago and Monica's stepmom told Abby that Monica and sam were having am affair for three years! I was like bingo! but nope turns out the stepmom was wrong yes Monica was sam's student but he never slept or touch her inappropriately so he never cheated on Abby despite everything he was willing to lose his life when Monica pointed a gun at Abby to try to kill her but when she saw how much sam loves Abby, Monica decided to shoot herself in the in head instead. The baby was fine! sam and Abby got the baby but Monica didn't die she's in vegetative state, she can't walk or talk.
So in the end Abby and Sam had their baby but gosh I was so mad at sam for not setting boundaries with Monica!