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.

lips, trying to call for the man who had saved me. But I couldn’t

was squeezed, and I turned my head to my side, taking in

Oh, thank Jesus. She paused, pressed a button, and then turned back to me, cupping my face Are you okay? Are you

produce was another one of the inhuman

continued striking her

this time, no sound came up. So I gave up, hoping Gabriel will hear

He didn’t

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Chapter 49

asked me to not speak, just nod. He asked me if I knew who I

that I had screamed too loud and had managed to swell my vocal cord. Nothing serious, nothing a few days of rest and warm water wouldn’t heal. But I need to talk in whispers till

remember screaming that much. Just once, when the

maybe more. Everything was

A pathetic, painful blur.

tried touching my throat, quite possibly to palpate any

head, looking at Alice with

what the man

away, and a female

could see Alice holding in a sob while the female doctor helped me sit upright and then checked me, and once she confirmed that the swelling

sorry. I promised myself I wouldn’t

cried, but I didn’t want to be touched. So I

his wife peeked from

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

me, I could come stay with her for a

she was just a week ago, it seemed like a

and I knew he knew why

for a minute since he found you, Zach

in, I pleaded with my eyes, the only way

squeezed my hand softly before

missing. He would be the first one here if he knew. I didn’t want him to know, I didn’t

so long that I started believing he’d never come, but finally, he came. The man I had been waiting to see since the

down to his last hair strand, but today he wasn’t. His hair was messed up, his stubble was grown more than

attention.

were hollow even

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

front of me