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Right before Christmas, I posted on social media about becoming a mom. At the family dinner on Christmas Eve, my cousin suddenly piped up, "Congrats, Trina—pregnant before marriage, and you popped out five!" She flashed a fake innocent look. "I thought you were all about that 'I don't need a man' lifestyle? Wait... was that just a cover so you could be a surrogate for some rich guy?" The table went dead silent for a second, then exploded. Relatives who'd been fawning over me all night instantly flipped. "Knew it; no way she made that much money cleanly." "Oh my god, I literally just asked her to hook my daughter up with a job. Thank god she said no. I almost threw my girl to the wolves." My mom was too embarrassed to look up. My brother shot me a disgusted glare. My dad sat there fuming, like he wished I'd never been born. I just smiled calmly. "Want to make a bet? If I lose, I'll give you 1.5 million. But if you lose? You come clean about every single shady thing you've done."