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.

the man who had saved me. But I couldn’t speak. Instead, I just croaked a sound. that sounded truly

taking in the

me to wake up. Sof. Sofia, oh, you’re awake. Oh, thank Jesus. She paused, pressed a button, and then turned back to me, cupping my

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

okay? She continued striking her

this time, no sound came up. So I gave up, hoping Gabriel will hear fin awake and come along with the

He didn’t

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Chapter 49

He asked me if I knew who I was, what year it was, how I was taken.

vocal cord. Nothing serious, nothing a few days of rest and warm water wouldn’t heal. But I need to talk in

Just once, when the man

maybe more. Everything was a

A pathetic, painful blur.

touching my throat, quite possibly to palpate any

my head, looking

man

doctor was sent away, and a

and once she confirmed that the swelling had reduced and

I wouldn’t cry.” She sobbed. “I

cried, but I didn’t want to be touched. So I held her hand and let her cry until the

his wife

said a few things, and

she was always there for me, I could come stay with her for a few days if I ever

she was just a week ago, it seemed like a lifetime back. It suddenly

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

your side for a minute since he found you, Zach told me,

in, I pleaded with my eyes, the only way I knew

hand softly before he

He would be the first one

come, but finally, he came. The man I had been waiting to

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 clothes looked

attention.

eyes were hollow even as he stared at

on the chair next to the bed like everyone else did. He sat on the edge of

front of me