His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

I kissed Gabriel Whitlock.

No, he kissed me.

And as good as that kiss was, kissing him was not good for me at all because even more than twenty-four hours later, the kiss was still all I was thinking about though I was at my desk on my first day at my new job.

I needed to focus. So, I tried all day. And all day, I failed.

All I could think of was him, Kissing him. More than kissing hi

“Girl, there’s literally drool on your mouth. James commented as we walked out of the elevator together, and my cheeks. flushed.

“My husband… did a number on me.” I bit my lower lip. Every time I replayed Gabriel’s words to me, I was inevitably lost in thoughts of what he had promised me.

I would f*ck you)

there’s no tomorrow.

James was the first friend I met at work. He was the head of product design at Wales and even though our jobs were nowhere. interrelated, our desks were adjacent. He was tall and dark with buzz cut looking intimidating, but he talked to me himself when I first entered and hadn’t stopped since.

He hot?” James asked in a heavy southern accent, and I laughed.

“Yeah, he’s hot.”

When we got out of the building ready to grab dinneras per the spontaneous plan we had made, he paused, his eyes narrowing. “He loaded too?”

“Huh?” I followed his gaze which had stopped at the car parked outside Wales, the driver standing outside, his eyes fixed at

me.

my breath, apologetically looking

be happy I made it home earlier.” He passed me a

invite me for dinner soon-ish. You’ve talked about his cooking all day. I’m

hot-and-loaded-sounding-like-a-full-package man to invite me first,”

bye and then walking towards the

whisper once I got to hiin. “I told you I’ll take the train

wedding day were to take you wherever you want, and get you back

glared at him. “Are you also going to tell him where I was

he asks,” My driver said, and I grit my

the driver will tell him I was at Wales all day. His rival company. I was going to

felt a bit of guilt about it, but not much. I was just one of the thousand employees of this company, doing my job. I was doing an ordinary job. Gabriel never offered me to work with

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Chapter 13

myself. He

head, getting into the car and pouting

Luna greeted me by the door, persistently taking

was nice. I made a new friend.”

She fuelled my

and her

“Oo!”

all of Sunday, and I fell asleep early that night because of the lack of

he hasn’t, she replied. “Peter called and did leave

me? What

sir had to fly out to

didn’t expect him to let me know

Her voice

I couldn’t help getting lost in the what-ifs. What if he had been here tonight? Would there be

Wednesday passed Thursday passed. And then,

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