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CONTRACT BABY
By
Lynne Graham
CHAPTER ONE
FROM the slim document case clasped in one strong brown hand, Raul Zaforteza withdrew a
large glossy photograph. 'This is Polly Johnson. In six weeks' time she will give birth to my child.
I
must
find her before then.'
Somehow primed to expect a gorgeous blonde with a supermodel face and figure, Digby was
disconcerted to find himself looking at a small, slim girl with a mane of hair the colour of
mahogany, soulful blue eyes and an incredibly sweet smile. She looked so outrageously young and
whole​some he just could not imagine her in the role of surrogate mother.
As a lawyer with a highly respected London firm, Digby Carson had dealt with some very
difficult cases. But a sur​rogacy arrangement gone wrong?- The surrogate mother on the run and
probably determined to keep the baby? He sur​veyed his most wealthy and influential client with a
sinking heart.
Raul Zaforteza's fabled fortune was founded on gold and diamond mines. He was a brilliant
business tycoon, a leg​endary polo player and, according to the gossip columns, a notorious
womaniser. He was already prowling like a black panther ready to spring. Six feet two inches
tall, with the sleek, supple build of a born athlete and the volatile tem​perament of his colourful
heritage, he was an intimidating sight, even to a man who had known him from childhood.
'Digby...I understood that my lawyer in New York had already briefed you on this situation,' Raul
drawled with barely concealed impatience.
'He said the matter was far too confidential to discuss on the phone. And I hadn't the slightest
suspicion that youwere planning to become a father through surrogacy,' the older man admitted.
'Why on earth did you embark on such a risky venture?'
'Por Dios...you
watched me grow up! How can you ask me that?' Raul countered.
Digby looked uncomfortable. As a former employee of Raul's late father, he was well aware that
Raul had had a pretty ghastly childhood. He might be rich beyond avarice, but he had not been
anything like as lucky in the parent lottery.
His bronzed features taut, Raul expelled his breath in a slow hiss. 'I decided a long time ago that I
would never marry. I wouldn't give any woman that amount of power over me
or,
even more
crucially, over any child we might have!' Fierce conviction roughened his rich, accented drawl.
'But I've always been very fond of children—'
'Yes...' An unspoken-but hovered in the tense silence.
'Many marriages end in divorce, and usually the wife gets to keep the children,' Raul reminded the
lawyer with biting cynicism. 'Surrogacy impressed me as the most prac​tical way in which to
father a child outside marriage. This wasn't an impulsive decision, Digby. When I decided to go
ahead, I went to a lot of trouble to ensure that I would choose a suitable mother for my child.'
'Suitable?' Digby was keen to hear what Raul, with his famed love of fast, glitzy society blondes,
had considered 'suitable' in the maternal stakes.
'When my New York legal team advertised for a surro​gate mother, they received a flood of
applications. I em​ployed a doctor and a psychologist to put a shortlist of the more promising

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