Chapter 1

Lulu bridge finds herself entangled in a web of being a surrogate for a billionaire who’s as ruthless as he’s feared, but what happens when she starts to breech their contract where there should never be any feelings involved.

Chapter 0001

THERE'S BEEN A MIX UP

"I'm sorry, the pregnancy was not successful."

Lulu Bridge put the phone down and cried in her hands.

She had tried all sorts of things but yet she couldn't conceive.

Her biggest dream in life was to become a mother.

"Why am I being punished so much?" She cried in her hands as her husband, Alex Moore, wrapped his arms around her.

"It's okay, we will conceive," he snuggled her even closer.

"I'm tired Alex."

"Why don't we go down to the hospital for an IVF?"

"Do you think it will be successful this time? Do we have enough money for one?"

Alex had been fired for a long time so Lulu had to work multiple jobs.

"We will make enough money."

She dried her tears, this was why she loved her husband the most, even after being married for four years, Alex still loved her so much.

He kissed her forehead, "anything to make your dream come true."

Sure his family hated her and broke ties with her for not being able to produce a proper grand child.

"But what if it still fails?" She had this sudden fear envelope her.

"Then we will adopt a child," he assured her.

"I love you so much Alex."

"Not as much as I do."

Three months later

Her hands were still trembling as she held the report in her hands, "I'm truly pregnant after all these time."

Her eyes were blinded by so much tears that she couldn't see the road ahead.

She was too excited that she couldn't help but call Alex even though he would be at work.

There was no response.

"We are finally going to be parents!"

She kept chanting these words before finally pulling a taxi over.

She went home, staring intensely at the paper, would it disappear if she looked away.

"Tonight calls for intense celebration, I should pull out my most sexy outfit, and cook the most luxurious dinner for my husband!"

She set to cooking.

She made a delicious banquet of all of his favorite food.

She looked through her wardrobe, she didn't have a sexy enough lingerie.

She didn't enjoy sex these days as it was a reminder of her barrenness but not anymore.

"I'll go shopping for the most revealing lingerie!" She took her wallet and hurried out of the house before he could show up.

On her way home, she drove past Emery Andrew's house.

"Stop!" She yelled at the taxi.

"But this is not the destination you asked for ma'am," the driver was surprised.

"Yes I know," she shrugged, hurrying to pay him.

Emery was her best friend since high school, the two had been close ever since, she was the only person who would be genuinely happy for her.

She had used up all her savings on ivf but it didn't bother her, with her husband's job, they would be back on their feet in no time.

She was so close to Emery, they had each others' house key.

Opening the front door, she saw the living room in a mess, clothes scattered all over the floor and wraps of food.

"She has a man over for sure, Emery is always messy with a date." She rolled her eyes, picking up and tidying after her.

She heard sounds from the bedroom, she was right after all, Emery had someone over.

She inched closer to the bedroom and heard Emery sobbing.

"How do we tell her?! She'll hate me."

"No she won't, she loves children very much in fact!" A male voice assured her.

Why would she be crying? It worried Lulu.

"How can I tell her I'm pregnant?! Even if she loves children!"

Lulu was shocked. This was good news! She didn't even know Emery was seeing a serious date.

"How can I tell her that her husband got me pregnant?"

"It doesn't matter, she's barren anyways, it's her fault." The voice told Lily.

"She doesn't have to find out…" he said

Wait, that voice.

Lulu barged into the room, no wonder that voice sounded so familiar!

"Alex?!"

Both Alex and Emery were startled getting to their feet.

"Lulu it's not what you think…" Alex started to defend himself.

Lulu took the words right out of his mouth with a slap, "so this is what you're up to, lying to me that you have to work late at night? Cheating on me with my best friend?"

Her eyes went glossy with tears, "how can you betray me??"

Holding his affected cheek, Alex frowned, "and so what? I was only keeping up for your sake now that you know the truth this way," he pulled Emery closer to him, "I'm actually in love with Emery and she's pregnant with my first child."

Lulu stood there in shock.

Emery sniffed, "I'm sorry Lulu, I didn't mean for you to find out this way."

"Wow…" Lulu was in disbelief. "The two closest people to my heart…"

"Please leave, I'll meet you at home and we can discuss further, I don't want you to stress Emery and the baby." Alex shunned her.

Lulu had no choice but to turn around.

"I can't believe I am having a child with this devil who I mean nothing to, I'm not going to keep a child with this loser!" She cried as she got into the taxi.

She forgot all about her dreams and was fueled by anger.

"How can Alex repay me this way?"

She told the taxi driver her destination and in a few minutes her phone rang.

Sniffing, she wiped her tears, it was her doctor from the hospital.

Perfect. She can get rid of the baby once and for all.

"I was just about to call you," she informed the doctor.

"Mrs Moore, there has been a terrible mistake!"

She frowned, "what do you mean?"

"We just found out, the sample that was mixed with your egg, does not belong to your husband."

"What?!" She was confused.

"I'm afraid there's been a mix up of the sperm ma'am."

Chapter 0002

Lulu arrived at the hospital and was immediately led into the doctor’s office.

“What happened Dr Lopez?”

‘Oh Mrs Moore…”

“Please call me miss Bridge from now.”

“There’s been an horrible mistake, I promise nothing like this has never happened in the history of our hospital.”

Lulu pulled out a chair across from her, "Well tell me what happened.”

“Before insemination, the nurse in charged of your ivf had found out that your husband had no living sperm cells, your infertility issue was from your husband.”

“What?!” Lulu threw her hands over her mouth in astonishment, that meant there was no way Emery was actually pregnant with Alex's child. She was lying to him!

"Wait, so how come my pregnancy was successful?"

"That's the problem, one of our hospital's biggest client was also scheduled for an insemination on that same day, the samples were swapped."

"Wait, so what you're saying is... I'm pregnant with someone else's child?"

"Not just anyone, David Carlson's child."

"Am I supposed to know who that is?"

"He's the world's most famous artist, how haven't you heard of him?"

"That's not important! How could you have made such a terrible mistake?!"

"We know, and we are trying to fix it which is why we thought to let you know first."

The door barged open and a crying nurse walked into the doctor's office.

"Dr Lopez, my life is over, what do I do?! my career! all of my hard work."

Lulu recognised her as the nurse who had been in charge of her case.

She broke down in more tears, "I heard he's on his way," she was trembling.

"Today is his appointment, he's supposed to meet with the surrogate today..."

Lulu could not understand the big deal about this man and why everyone seemed to be so worried. Yes it was a disaster but there had to be a solution.

"Relax, we will find a way around things..."

"No you don't understand!" The nurse sobbed, "all my years of hard work are gone and I'll be going to jail soon."

The nurse suddenly fell before Lulu and went on her knees, holding Lulu's arms, "please miss could you act like you were the scheduled surrogate? he has no idea yet and..."

"We will not be doing anything of such!" Doctor Lopez immediately interjected, "we are already in a big problem if he finds out about this incident, let alone lying to him would put the hospital in further issues."

The nurse buried her face in her hands, "I'm so dead."

"We can just talk to him..." Lulu wondered how they could treat one person like he was a god.

"You don't understand, David Carlson is the world's craziest man!" The nurse sniffed.

"He once closed down an entire supermarket because they sold him an expired product, it was only expired for a day!"

"He also closed down a hundred million dollar movie production because they were filming outside his apartment," Dr Lopez backed her up.

"He hates being associated with people," the nurse sniffed, "he hates the sound of animals, of humans of anything at all."

"He fired his staff for breathing too loudly, he's barely ever seen in public almost like he's allergic to humans."

"What do I do Dr Lopez?" The nurse continued to cry. "my life is over, the hospital is done for."

One of the other staff walked in and reported, "he's here..."

The three women went dead quiet as they heard the sound of his footsteps.

With every passing second, the women held their breath. Their fates would be decided in a matter of minutes.

The door came open, a tall man clad in a suit walked in.

Lulu had never met such a charming man, he had bright blue eyes, long wavy jet black hair and juicy pink lips, his jaw looked like they had been chiseled to perfection.

His eyes flickered to hers, pulling her out of her trance. Her eyes lingered on his gaze, he had a stern and blank expression. She looked away and swallowed hard.

"I heard you needed to see me," he turned his gaze to Dr Lopez, his voice was deep and was filled with so much dominance.

"Yes in fact, we needed to tell you something about the insemination," dr Lopez was doing her best to be professional.

"There's been a..." she began to say when Lulu interrupted.

"It was successful, I'm the surrogate, it's nice to meet you Mr Carlson," she extended her hand out for a shake.

Chapter 0003

MEETING MR CARLSON

He stared at Lulu's hands with disgust, "is this really why you called me here? You couldn't talk to my assistant?" He flickered his eyes back to Dr Lopez.

"Good it was successful, my assistant will be here with the contract papers."

He turned around to leave on his heels, glowering at Lulu before taking his leave

"What did you just do?" Dr Lopez widened her eyes at Lulu.

"I don't know, I just didn't think you deserved to be in trouble with such a man, I'm still in shock myself but..."

"No you don't understand what you've gotten yourself into, the type of surrogacy we were going to do with him was completely different," she seemed panicked.

"What do you mean?"

"The surrogate is supposed to live with him throughout the pregnancy, with immediate effect."

"I'm sorry, what?!"

"Yes Miss Bridge, he doesn't think anyone would be able to take care of the child's health other than him, and... I was going to tell him the insemination was unsuccessful and-"

"Holy shit, I just didn't know what to do in that time."

"There's so much you need to learn if you want to be a surrogate, so much rules."

"But it's a good thing too," the nurse sniffed, feeling better now knowing her head wouldn't be ripped off. "The pay from Mr Carlson is three hundred thousand dollars!"

Lulu widened her eyes in shock, "what?!"

"Yes, this is why we cannot afford to mess things up."

"I'll do it," Lulu said without thinking.

All her life she had dreamed of being a mother and she had no money left after the IVF with nowhere to go.

"But you need to know you'll have no association with this child forever."

She swallowed hard, "that's the thing about being a surrogate! You're supposed to have no association with the child, it's in the contract, and he even has his own contract terms."

"I... I need some time to think about it."

"Fine, this needs to be extremely confidential, how will we explain things to your husband now?"

She frowned at the mention of Alex.

"He means nothing to me anymore."

Lulu wasn't sure what she had gotten herself into.

Dr Lopez escorted her out, waving her off once she was out of sight.

*

Lulu got home, reminded of her misery with her husband.

She pulled out the home computer, she typed David Carlson's name into the search bar.

Hot pictures of the man came flooding her page.

Fuck he was the sexiest thing to ever exist, he had so many art works displayed, yet he wasn't smiling in a single picture.

She shook her head, this was not the time to be admiring him.

She flinched when she heard her front door unlock.

Her eyes were shifted into a frown when she saw her husband walk in with Emery entangled by his arm.

"It's not enough that you disturbed and shamed me, how can you still come back here?!" She raised her voice.

"She will move in with me, this is my house bought with my own money!" Alex said.

"What do you mean? I pay rent always, I even sold the necklace I inherited from my late grandmother to keep up with the rent!"

"Well, all that money came to me," he confessed, "I own this house and many more, and the documents are in my drawer as proof."

Lulu stood there in shock.

"Now that you know the truth, there's no need to hide things anymore."

He turned to her ex best friend with a smile,"Emery will be moving in with me."

"What?!"

"Yes, I'm kicking you out."

Her eyes welled with tears. Was this really the same man who had shown her unconditional love for the past four years.

He tossed some papers at her, "these are signed divorce papers, go ahead and sign them, pack your crap and move out."

"Alex!"

"There's no way Emery can live in that small shack of hers anymore, it's not good for the child."

"Alex, how can you do this..."

He left Emery's side, taking Lulu's arms like she was a piece of trash, he pulled her into their shared bedroom and began to toss all of her clothing out.

He pushed her out of the room with a box of her few clothes.

"I expect you to send the divorce letter back as soon as possible!"

She held her box with shaky hands and turned to Emery, "you'll regret this!"

Emery put on a smirk, "that's easy for you to say, Alex loves me."

"He loved me too..."

"That's different! You couldn't bear him a child, I did."

Lulu stood there in amusement, "well then let's see how easily he throws you out when the truth comes out."

Lulu watched as Emery's eyes widened in shock.

Alex wasted no time in throwing Lulu out, not giving her a chance to do more.

Lulu stared at the divorce papers in her hands, she sniffed and pulled her phone out to call Dr Lopez.

"Hello?" came her doctor's sleepy voice.

"I need to move in with David Carlson, tonight."

Chapter 0004

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

"Why what's happened?" Doctor Lopez sounded panicked.

"I've been thrown out of my house with no where to go."

"Oh my goodness! The child needs to be safe at all times, let me know where you are I'll send a driver over to you."

In a matter of minutes, there was a small car there to pick her up. "Are you miss bridge?" He asked.

Picking her box, she nodded. She didn't even have the energy to cry from how bad her husband was treating her because it was yet to sink in.

The driver pulled up in a hotel and helped her with booking everything.

*

The next day dr Lopez showed up at the hotel.

"The move is happening today, he has scheduled everything for today so we don't have much time left."

Doctor Lopez announcement made Lulu realise how this was reality.

Lulu had no one to call, her only family had been Alex and her best friend Emery.

"I'm so sorry with how quickly everything is happening," doctor Lopez said with a sigh.

"It's okay," Lulu tried to show no hints of nervousness.

“This is the contract and all you need to know about surrogacy.”

"What's the contract for?"

"Because Mr Carlson wanted this to happen in a very specific way, these are his personal rules you must follow."

"May I ask why he wants a surrogate? Does he have a wife?"

"No Mr Carlson had never been interested in relationships so it's a surprise why he wants a child."

"Since I'm signing things," she pulled out her divorce paper from her box, "might as well get this over with."

She signed the divorce papers, "I'll get them mailed to him."

"Is this because of Mr Carlson?" Dr Lopez sounded genuinely worried.

"No we didn't separate due to that, he has no idea and I'm hoping to keep it that way."

Dr Lopez's phone rang all of a sudden.

She put it up to her ear.

"Hello? Okay thank you for letting me know."

"What's wrong?" Lulu wondered.

"It's time."

Lulu swallowed hard, maybe this was being too hasty of a decision.

Lulu got to her feet, she put on a simple white dress, and drew her hair back in a simple bun.

She didn't understand why she cared about how she looked right now . She headed out of the hotel room with Dr Lopez.

There was a Porsche parked outside the hotel waiting for them.

The driver took her box and placed it in the trunk of the vehicle.

He opened the back door seat for her and turned to Dr Lopez, "I'll take it from here."

Lulu stared at Dr Lopez who was trying her best to hide how nervous she seemed.

She waved her goodbye until she was out of sight.

This was it. She was moving into the devil's den, her life was about to be changed by David Carlson forever.

*

Lulu had thought David Carlson's house would be unreal but seeing it in reality, she wondered how one person could be so rich.

The driver pressed the bell, after going through the security at the gate.

A flood of workers were staring back at her with wide smiles.

"Welcome miss," a middle aged woman smiled at her, taking her bags from the driver. “I'm Millet.”

Lulu's eyes followed through the crowd of them and realised she was unconsciously searching for David.

"Oh sir is not here," Millet confirmed as if she read her mind.

"Follow me, I'll take you to your room."

Lulu followed after her.

She noticed all sorts of paintings hanging on the white walls, it must be his art, she thought.

Her room was upstairs, one of many doors facing each other.

Is this a house or a hotel room?

Her bedroom was three times the size of her old one.

It was simple with one bed in the center of the room, but no other decorations.

"If you need anything, press the bell by your bed. I'll leave you to yourself now."

Lulu watched as the woman left the room, she was all alone once more.

She sat on the bed, and buried her face in her hands, this was happening too quickly.

She put her shaky hands to her belly, "what am I doing? All I wanted for years was a baby, I can't give my child up so easily, I'll convince David Carlson to let me keep the baby too, it's only fair."

She didn't really want to be here but she had nowhere to go for now.

"I should read the contract."

Her eyes widened the more she glanced through the pages, "this is insane, how do you expect anyone to live like this?! Must not be in contact, always maintain six feet, do not talk to him unless he talks first, do not leave house unsupervised? These are not proper rules, this is prison, no wonder he pays so much."

She put the overwhelming contract beside her, "he'll have to do things that I need too, especially being in the child's life."

She looked around, it would be very luxurious to have all of this for her child, her baby would grow up well.

Her phone dinged.

It was a picture of Emery and Alex kissing. Emery had sent it. In fact, she had a huge diamond ring engraved on her finger.

Was Alex that wealthy? They always struggled with finances and now he could afford a diamond ring for Emery?

Why did he pretend to be a poor man and only make her suffer this whole time

The image was immediately followed by a fake apology, "oops, I meant to send that to someone else."

She immediately blocked the phone number.

She closed her eyes and fell into the arms of sleep.

*

Lulu woke up hours later, her eyes flickering to the wall clock.

"It's already past ten p.m, how did I sleep so much?"

Her stomach grumbled, reminding her she hadn't eaten at all.

She looked at the bell she was ordered to ring and felt bad to think of calling a chef.

It wasn't like her to order anyone around, it would also be selfish to wake someone who was already sleeping.

Surely, it's not so hard to find the kitchen in this giant castle.

She headed out of the room, all bright lights had been turned off, leaving only the dim night light.

She shuffled downstairs and found the massive kitchen next to the living room.

She returned to her bedroom after making the sandwich.

She found the bathroom door through her dark room and headed in there.

"Wow," she was truly amazed. Why did they give her such a grand bathroom.

The walls were gold with sculptures all over the room.

She marveled at the huge window by the bath tub that had a view of the mountain in the distance.

"He's surely treating me grandly."

She took all of her clothes off, hanging them on a hanger by the sink and filled the golden rimmed tub with hot water.

No sooner had she sunk her head into the tub did she hear the bathroom door swing open.

Reflexively, she wrapped her arms around herself, letting out an alarming scream as she swung her eyes to the intruder.

No other than David Carlson standing there, stark naked.

With fear in her heart, she widened her eyes at the gigantic man.

"What are you doing here?" They asked at the same time.

Chapter 0005

THE WIFE

Lulu sank further into the tub, panic settling through her veins. Why was he in her bedroom?

His face was blank as he stared at her.

"You clearly haven't read the contract rules properly."

"What do you mean?"

"You should never have any reasons to be in my bedroom."

"But I'm in the room assigned to me!"

She continued to sink further into the tub as he came closer, she was trembling out of fear of what he could possibly do to her.

Instead he picked a towel from the hanger to wrap around his waist.

She let out a gasp as he reached into the tub, gripping her arm and pulling her out aggressively.

She tried to hide her naked body with her free hand, "what are you doing?"

Soon, they were in the bedroom and Lulu realised, wait, this isn't my room.

She must have gone into the wrong room due to all the dim lights.

She immediately bowed her head, "there's been a misunderstanding! I thought this was my bedroom."

"My room is off limits," he commanded, his voice didn't show how angry or upset he was, still it gave her the chills "never make that mistake."

"I promise."

He tossed her a free towel and sent her out of the room.

Lulu couldn't believe what had just happened.

She hurried out of there, clenching onto the towel for dear life and found her bedroom door was right next to his.

"He must have chosen this room for me so he'll have easy access to me at all times."

She sat in bed, horrified by what just happened.

"I must never make such a horrible mistake again."

*

The next day, a knock came on Lulu's bedroom door at around nine in the morning.

"It's Millet," she announced.

"Come in."

Soon, Millet had showed up with a tray of breakfast, it had sandwiches, and bacon, and orange juice.

"Thank you so much," she acknowledged.

"Sir wants to have a meeting with you as soon as you're done, I'll be waiting outside your room so I can direct you to the meeting room."

"Okay."

Millet offered a smile and took her leave from the room.

Lulu's heart skipped in fear , was he going to yell at her for coming to his room yesterday night.

She wondered if she needed to call doctor Lopez and tell her about it first.

She rushed her food and hurried her shower. No need to keep him waiting too long and further piss him off.

She put on an oversized shirt that used to belong to Alex and a small sweatpants of hers.

Her rose gold hair was packed up in a ponytail and she dared to put on a little bit of lip gloss, she didn't want to look completely off.

She joined Millet outside her door, "I'm ready."

Millet smiled at her and proceeded to leave the way.

*

David Carlson sat in his study, his eyes fixed on his laptop until a small knock came on the door.

"Come on in," he ordered.

He watched as Millet walked in with his new surrogate.

He wondered how one woman could be so tiny.

She was obviously terrified, looking everywhere but at him.

"Leave us alone," he ordered Millet, not taking his eyes off the small woman.

He saw the obvious fear in her eyes as the worker nodded and retreated.

"Have your seat," he ordered.

She stared at the multiple chairs around his meeting table and her shaky legs took her to one at the very far end away from him, she pulled the chair out and sat on it.

In minutes, she started, "I'm so sorry I really mean it, last night was an accident, I can promise you Mr Carlson, it will never happen again."

Truthfully, he was surprised but one thing he was good at was concealing emotions.

At his silence, she slowly brought her eyes up to meet his gaze, but looked away just as quickly.

"Have you signed the contract yet?"

"Actually, I wanted to talk to you about some of the contract terms."

"And why would that be?" Not waiting for her answer, he added, "I already talked this through this with the hospital, you're not supposed to be questioning me at all, you should instead be turning the papers in."

"I- I know sir."

"So what's with the hesitation?"

She opened her mouth to talk but he cut her again, "in fact, that's one of many questions, I remember telling the hospital I wanted the donor to be brunette, what's with your hair?"

She blinked, not expecting the question.

"And she had to be at least five feet seven, are you even up to five feet?"

"I..." She swallowed, "Mr Carlson, the original donor couldn't stand in because she wasn't fit, it was an emergency and I had to take her place."

"Without my consultation?"

"I..."

He nodded once, his eyes fixed immensely on her, "what's your name again?"

"Lu.... It's Lulu Bridge, sir?"

"Alright go ahead and get ready, we leave soon.”

She wondered what he meant by it, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”

“Have you really not read the schedule? You’re going with me to the artist event as my wife.”

Chapter 0006

Lulu was astonished but decided to hide it, "of course I remember sir, I'll go get ready right away."

She left his study, how could dr Lopez have left out such an important piece?

Millet was waiting in her bedroom with all the accessories she needed.

She didn't have time to read the contract papers to see this information.

"Sir will be waiting so we need to hurry."

She put her in a green silky dress that hugged her curves, her hair was in a ponytail and her face was put in slight makeup that accented her features.

At the artist event.

It was a huge one, many wealthy people are gathered to see the famous David Carlson.

"All you need to do is stay by my side." David said in a cold, stern voice.

Lulu felt out of place, she nodded in response.

"Is that really a woman with David Carlson?"

"Who is the mysterious woman by his side?"

Multiple camera flashes were soon tossed their way, all types of questions by the reporters.

Lulu was still so caught up in the mess when she noticed two familiar figures at the very end of the hall admiring an art piece on the wall.

"Emery and Alex?"

"Mr Carlson, please can you come with us to view the new art work from the museum sir?" A voice came from beside them.

David Carlson nodded, "stay right here, I'll be right back."

Lulu was left to stand by herself, in a place filled with so many affluent people.

"Why would they be here?" She wondered and then she remembered Emery is an upcoming artist herself, this only confirmed her suspicions that Alex had been lying all these years about his wealth, he was secretly wealthy to be able to afford an event like this.

Why did he lie to her he was poor? She wondered.

Emery was clinging to Alex's arm like glue, smiling wide and chatting away.

As if he could sense her gaze, Alex's eyes landed on Lulu.

Emery wondered what had caught his attention and soon saw Lulu.

She immediately came to where Lulu was standing.

"Are you that shameless that after everything you still followed us here?"

"Why would I?"

Emery scanned her outfit, "isn't that the limited designer dress? Who did you bribe to make you such a fake copy?"

"And that diamond necklace?" Emery's eyes widened, "have you become a thief now Lulu?"

"I will not let you talk me down after everything you've done to betray me!"

"Stop being so shameless, you stalked us here, how did you get in? This is an invite only event, I am here to see the famous David Carlson and to get his autograph, Alex bought me the ticket." She blushed heavily, "he loves me and that's something you'll never be able to enjoy."

"I have no interest in speaking to you Emery, stay away from me." Lulu tried to keep her voice down, now that everyone saw her with David, she must be careful not to ruin his reputation.

"You're just jealous Alex always loved me, and I'm giving him a child when you couldn't..."

Lulu had enough, she struck her hard in the face.

That immediately drew more attention from the reporters that were around them.

Emery held her affected cheek in shock and soon started to wail to gather more attention, "how can you hit me for saying that I loved your dress?"

"How dare you?!" Alex rushed to their side, "how can you treat Emery this way! Don't you know she's with child!" He cuddled Emery who had broken into tears, against his chest.

He pushed Lulu out of the way, causing her to stumble backwards.

"Are you hurt Emery?"

"She hit me for nothing!"

"I'll make sure she's punished, don't you dare lay your hands on her ever again, or I'll make you pay."

Lulu couldn't believe this was the behaviour from her once dear husband.

"How dare you raise your hand at me?!" Emery lifted her hand to strike back but a huge hand suddenly gripped her wrist.

"What is going on here?"

The thick voice belonged to David Carlson.

All the guests and reporters mumbled even louder, "who is really this woman? Why is David Carlson holding her so closely?"

Emery was in shock, "Mr Carlson? Why are you here?"

He let go of her hand like it was disgusting, she stumbled backwards but Alex caught her to stabilise her.

David Carlson scanned his surrogate, "are you hurt?"

She shook her head a little.

"Mr Carlson, how can you support this terrible woman?" Emery was astonished.

"Yes, who is this woman to you?! Everyone has been asking!" A reporter yelled back.

"She is my wife," David Carlson informed the public immediately.