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

be happy I made it home

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

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

bye and then walking towards

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

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

you also going to tell him where I was at the

he asks,” My driver said, and I grit my

Wales all day. His rival company.

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

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myself. He

head, getting into the car and pouting all the way

me by the door, persistently taking

I made a new friend.” I grinned

about her. She fuelled my childlike

and her lips parted in

“Oo!”

yet?” I asked her. I hadn’t seen him all of Sunday, and I fell asleep early that night because of the lack of sleep on Saturday after what happened between us. I hadn’t seen

she replied. “Peter called and did leave

me? What is

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

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

don’t. Her voice was

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

in those thoughts. Tuesday passed. Wednesday passed Thursday passed. And then, so did

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