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.

under my breath, apologetically looking

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

me for dinner soon-ish. You’ve talked about

me first,” He teased, “I

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

scowled in a whisper once I got to hiin. “I

wherever you want, and get

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

asks,” My driver said, and I

was at Wales all day. His rival company. I was

the thousand employees of this company, doing my job. I was doing an ordinary job. Gabriel never offered me to work with him when I told

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Chapter 13

a job myself. He couldn’t

my head, getting into the car and pouting all the

by the door, persistently taking my work

made a new

me about her. She fuelled my

her and her lips parted in

“Oo!”

I fell asleep early that night because of the lack

hasn’t, she replied. “Peter called and

What is

know Gabriel sir had to fly out to London urgently yesterday.” She raised her

him to let me know

don’t. Her voice was apologetic.

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 we treat

passed. Wednesday passed Thursday passed. And

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