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 on

it, girl. Steve would only be happy I made it home earlier.” He passed

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

me

playfully slapped his forearm before waving him bye and then walking towards the car,

leave,” I scowled in a whisper once I got to hiin. “I told you I’ll take the

were to take you wherever you want, and get you back home.

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

asks,” My driver said, and

the driver will tell him I was at Wales

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 him when

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job myself.

shook my head, getting into the car and pouting all the way back

How was your first day!” Luna greeted me by the

was nice. I made a new friend.” I grinned at

about her. She

and her lips parted in

“Oo!”

I fell asleep early that night because of the lack of sleep on Saturday after what happened between

“No, he hasn’t, she replied. “Peter called and did leave

What is

Gabriel sir had to fly out to London urgently yesterday.”

expect him to let me know everything but I thought we were making some progress, Especially after the kiss… I shook those thoughts out. “Do

voice was apologetic.

the what-ifs. What if he had been here tonight? Would there be more of that kissing? Would we acknowledge

passed

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