His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 47

GABRIEL

“You couldn’t f*cking start with that?” I know my voice is louder than I allow myself to use, especially on women, but I don’t care. Alice flinches. “You stood at the door and wasted my f*cking time instead of leading with that? Calling me?”

“Gabriel..” Alice licks her lips, looking nervous. “The caller especially said you shouldn’t be involved. You shouldn’t even be here. Please leave?”

“Like f*ck I’ll leave.” I grit. “The f*cking person who took her knows me, and you want me to leave?”

Tears fill in her eyes. “I just don’t want them to do anything to her She pauses, sniffs. “They didn’t ask us to not call the police, they only asked us to not call you.”

There should be a sense of egoistic pride in knowing that this man wasn’t scared of the police, but of me because what I would do to him once I lay my hands on him would be way worse than any law would. But I didn’t feel that. All I felt was a heaviness in my chest. “So, you called the police?”

The call came three minutes before you did,” Sam answered when Alice didn’t because she was busy trying to control her

tears.

I unwillingly turned to him. “And what the f*ck are you doing here?”

“I called him.” Alice defended, crossing her hands in front of her chest again. “And now if your questions are done, someone has still kidnapped my best friend.”

Ignoring her. I exchanged a look with my brother, who was characteristically silent since we first entered the house. He c*cked an eyebrow. “You have any idea who this could be?”

I shook my head in a small no.

His eyes turned to Alice. “What’s the ransom amount?”

She nibbles on her nails. “A million.”

“There’s no way the guy thought these guys could arrange the money without getting you involved.” Damien commented, eyes focused on me, conveniently ignoring Alice’s offended face ready to scowl something. “Can you arrange that much cash?”

“Yeah.”

“Do it. I’ll take the money to them.”

“And I’ll sit back as you save her?”

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is sinister.

SOFIA

I remembered going to the grocery store again because 1 and Alice finished all the ice cream during our stay over and I needed some more for the new baking recipe I wanted to try after dinner. I remember being lost in thought, thunking of how it had been almost a week since I last saw Gabriel, talked to him, and how he hasn’t even bothered to check on me once. I remembered opening my phone with his contact displayed and contemplating calling him, just to

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being pulled into one of the darker alleys on my way back home, my phone falling when I was dragged there with a cloth over my mouth. I

opened in a dark

rotten eggs or chicken, or dead mice. I

even more uncomfortable was

and my vision was limited. I could make out that the room was small, and

still dark outside. I was

I was feeling and seeing, emotions

and panicking that I hadn’t reached yet. He possibly would’ve called Alice to ask if I was with her, and she would’ve checked

than a few hours they would

Panic builds in further.

I was kidnapped.

don’t think any normal

And then, it clicked.

I wasn’t normal anymore.

was Sofia Whitlock. I was a

in me, the panic turning into anger which dissipated

me to get to Gabriel? His money

husband

but I knew in my heart he would be here in

barely sunk in my head when there was a rattling sound, and the

obviously, and the amount of light that came from the other end was blinding because of all the dark I had

two voices on the other

she’s got the leash” One of them said, sounding unhappy. “You

bound to follow.”

a f*cking lion. The other man scowled in return, “If he ever gets his hand on us, he will burn us

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I squirmed.

Him.