Jeremy Thompson's cold, emotionless voice rang in her ears, "What's the big deal about bearing a child for me? It's not like you haven't done it before."
Anna Ainsworth gazed at Jeremy Thompson's stern face with surprise, followed by the annoyance of feeling humiliated. She automatically interpreted his phrase "It's not like you haven't done it before" as a mockery of her past as a surrogate mother for someone else.
Although her role as a surrogate mother five years ago had been a highly concealed affair, with almost no one aware of it, there are no walls in the world that air can't penetrate. For a man of Jeremy Thompson's calibre and power, if he set out to investigate her work history in Singapore during that one year, he would undoubtedly uncover it.
If he held such disdain for her, why did he still bother to approach her?
