His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

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 at James. “Rain check

Steve would only be happy I made it home earlier.”

get him to invite me for dinner soon-ish. You’ve talked about his

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

slapped his forearm before waving him bye and then

I scowled in a whisper once I got

orders on your wedding day were to take you wherever you want, and get you back home. Not

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

he asks,” My driver said, and I

at Wales all day. His rival company. I was

job. I was doing an ordinary job. Gabriel never offered

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Chapter 13

a job myself. He couldn’t be

car

Luna greeted me by the door, persistently

I made a new friend.” I grinned

me about her. She fuelled my childlike

her and her lips parted

“Oo!”

and I fell asleep early that night because of the lack of sleep on Saturday after

he hasn’t, she replied. “Peter

me? What

asked the to let you know Gabriel sir had to fly out to London urgently

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 but I thought we were making some progress, Especially after the kiss… I shook those thoughts out. “Do we know when

don’t. Her voice was

I shrugged, smiling it off but I couldn’t help getting lost in the what-ifs. What if he had been here tonight? Would there be more of that kissing? Would we acknowledge what happened between us, or would

those thoughts. Tuesday passed. Wednesday passed