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.

breath, apologetically looking at James. “Rain

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

to invite me for dinner soon-ish.

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

bye and then walking towards the

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

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

“Are you also going to tell him where I

driver said,

I was at Wales

doing my job. I

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Chapter 13

a job myself. He couldn’t

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

was your first day!” Luna greeted me by the door,

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

me about her. She fuelled my

corrected her and

“Oo!”

I asked her. I hadn’t seen him all of Sunday, and I fell asleep early that night because of the lack of

face fell a little. “No, he hasn’t, she replied. “Peter called and did leave

What is

asked the to let you know Gabriel sir had to fly out to London urgently yesterday.” She

asked Peter to. I didn’t expect him to let me know everything but I thought

don’t. Her voice was apologetic. I’m

here tonight? Would there be more of that kissing? Would we acknowledge what happened between us, or would

passed Thursday passed. And

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