How to construct a model to satisfy first order logic sentences

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I'm studying for a Logic exam and I'm currently working through past paper. However I'm finding it difficult to understand the following question.

I have been asked to:

Construct $L$-sentences formalizing the following:

i) $R(x, y)$ is a linear order with left endpoint $b$ and right endpoint $c$;

ii) $f(x)$ is a injective (i.e. one-to-one) function which has exactly two objects which bear $R(x, y)$ to $b$ in its range.

And to then:

Construct a model whose domain contains four objects in which the sentences i) and ii) you constructed are satisfied.

I'm finding it difficult to find such a module though. $b$ is a left endpoint, so surely there cannot be two objects with bear $R(x, y)$ to $b$. The two sentences seem to contradict each other, and I don't know how to construct such a model.

Thanks for the help.