My Husband Asked Me to Be a Surrogate Twice Until I Learned Why He Really Needed the Money

“His cousin Sharon was a surrogate. She made sixty thousand dollars. Just carried the baby and gave birth. That was it.”

I kept folding. I wasn’t sure I had heard him correctly, or maybe I was sure and didn’t want to be.

“If you did something like that,” he continued, “we could pay off Mom’s mortgage. All of it. We’d be done. No more panic. We could continue reading …