His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 49

1 don’t know how long I remained asleep for, because every time I stirred, I could sense different people around me.

“I failed her, Damien. Gabriel’s voice.

“I need to go… take care of something. A foreign voice.

“You need to go?” Gabriel sounded… angry..

Then, I faded back to sleep. The next time, the voices were different.

“You need to freshen up.” A feminine voice was speaking, I think Alice.

“I’m not moving from here. Gabriel replied. “The doctor said shell wake up any minute now.”

I wanted to wake up, but I couldn’t. I felt like I was being pulled into an unending sleep cycle.

“Is there anything I can do?” Sam was speaking.

Yeah… leave. Gabriel again.

I wanted to laugh at Gabriel’s pettiness, asking him to stop being like that towards Sam. That we had resolved everything in our past and both moved on.

I wanted to turn my body because my back felt stiff.

I wanted to turn to Gabriel, who I knew was sitting next to me, his hand often caressing my forehead. I wanted to put my arms around him and never let go.

Once, he placed a little kiss on my head, whispering, Wake up now, baby?”

After what seemed like forever or trying and failing, I could finally manage to open my eyes.

There was pain.

My stomach was hurting. My head was hurting. My throat was hurting. My back was hurting.

Everything hurt.

saved me. But I couldn’t speak. Instead,

and I turned my head to my side, taking in the foreign surroundings I was at, that looked awfully

didn’t expect me to wake up. Sof. Sofia, oh, you’re awake. Oh, thank Jesus. She paused, pressed a button,

again, but all I could produce was another one of the inhuman

continued striking her

gave up, hoping Gabriel will hear fin

He didn’t

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just nod. He asked me if I knew

had screamed too loud and had managed to swell my vocal cord. Nothing serious, nothing a

remember screaming that much. Just once, when the man

Everything was a

A pathetic, painful blur.

tried touching my throat, quite possibly to palpate any

my head, looking at Alice with pleading

understood what the man who kidnapped

doctor was sent away,

a sob while the female doctor helped me sit upright and then checked me, and once she confirmed that the swelling had reduced and I would heal in a few days and left,

I promised myself I wouldn’t cry.” She sobbed. “I

hug her while she cried, but I didn’t want to be touched. So I held her hand and let her

And then his wife peeked

Zach and Anna stayed. They both said a few things, and I nodded my head to

was always there for me, I could come

the Lily drama and although that she was just a

stared at Zach a little longer, and I knew he knew why

side for a minute since he found you, Zach told

my eyes, the only way

my hand

I went missing. He would be the first one here if he knew. I didn’t want

shut for so long that I started believing he’d never come, but finally, he came. The man I had

seen Gabriel this way. He was always put together down to his last hair strand, but today he wasn’t. His hair was messed up, his stubble was grown more than he maintained, his

attention.

hollow even as he stared at

next to the bed like everyone

front of me