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.

muttered under my breath, apologetically looking at James. “Rain check

about it, girl. Steve would only be happy I made it home

boyfriend about me and get him to invite me for dinner soon-ish. You’ve talked about his cooking all day. I’m tempted to have

me first,” He teased, “I accept

forearm before waving him bye and then walking towards the

a whisper once I

on your wedding day were to take you wherever you want, and get

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

driver said, and I grit my

tell him I was at Wales all day.

this company, doing my job. I was doing an ordinary job. Gabriel never offered me to work with him when I told him I wanted to start working again,

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a job myself.

getting into the car

me by the

I made a new friend.”

about her. She fuelled

I corrected her and her lips

“Oo!”

all of Sunday, and I fell asleep early that night because of the lack of sleep on Saturday after what happened between us.

she replied. “Peter called and did leave a

me? What is

the to let you know Gabriel sir had to fly out to London urgently yesterday.” She raised her shoulders in a helpless

I couldn’t help the disappointment from washing all over me. Yesterday? He didn’t tell me before he left, or even asked Peter to. I didn’t expect him to let me know everything

don’t. Her voice

had been here tonight? Would there be more of that kissing? Would we acknowledge what happened

thoughts. Tuesday passed. Wednesday passed Thursday

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