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2.3 Rules

I felt uncomfortable giving this family a baby. When it grows up, it will hate me for giving it to a broken family.

My first family was not off to a good start. Why was I supposed to save their marriage? Didn't they have psychologists on this side of the fence for that crap? What did he want me to do, sit down with Mrs. Ashley Tomlinson and tell her to be a wife again?

"So tell me, what do you want in return?" he asked me, still casually leaning against the wall. His black suit made him seem so sincere. He was a mixture of relaxed and serious. Just when I was about to think he was a casual guy, his suit reminded me that he was this man who had ordered me from the agency and that I was supposed to respect him because he had close ties to the mayor and he was important to the agency.

"I do not know what you mean," I honestly told him. "I am here to deliver you a baby. That is my job. Why would I want something in return?"

"Come with me," he said, taking my hand and leading me away from my room. We landed in his home office. Mr. Tomlinson had skipped this room in his detailed house tour.

He had me standing there in the middle of an office that was bigger than my entire home back in the agency while he searched for some kind of paper behind his desk.

When he found it, he read it out loud, "Your order will arrive in the morning of your wished date. In addition to the standard order, you have purchased the deluxe treatment. Your order is obliged to do as you say and give you everything she has to offer. Presents are welcomed to obedient orders."

"Are you serious?" I wanted to kick Mistress Raser for not telling me. I had put up with it, I tried to be a good girl, I wanted to be like my sister. I wanted everybody's approval. But this was going to far. I had to give him everything 'I had to offer'? What was I? Some sort of pr.ostitute?

"No, I was just reading your contract with me," he replied with a smirk.

"I had no idea that existed. I thought... I..."

"Calm down. Think about what you want in return, Pearl, and everything will go as planned," he said. Mr. Tomlinson seemed overly calm while I was freaking out.

"According to whose plans?" I asked. "I do not even know what I want in return."

That startled him. He was probably used to girls telling him they want money and shoes. In fact, my sister had returned from her first job with a whole new set of shoes and they seemes expensive. I did not want to think about what she had to do to get them. Nope. I did not.

"Then think of something, or are you planning on being disobedient?" He made me so tense.

"Look, please return me back to the agency. I am sure that there was a mistake," I begged him. I was not ready for this at all.

"The agency promised to send me Pearl Belle. The fresh young girl with a beautiful name and a naturally healthy body." He checked me out. "There is no mistake."

"Please, I do not want to do this," I pleaded. "You do not want me here. I am inexperienced. This is my first time. Go and get a girl that knows how to do this. I... I am of no value to you."

"I have been nice to you, Pearl Belle. That is very unusual of mine." I heard how he threatened his own daughter. I knew what he meant. "If you are not willing to play the game, I will have to start breaking the rules."