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.

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

hand was squeezed, and I turned my head to my side, taking in the foreign surroundings

wake up. Sof. Sofia, oh, you’re awake. Oh, thank Jesus. She

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

her hand through my hair.

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

He didn’t

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

me 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 then,

remember screaming that much. Just once,

Everything was

A pathetic, painful blur.

throat, quite

my head, looking at Alice with pleading

what the man who kidnapped me

doctor was sent away, and

and once she confirmed that the swelling had reduced and I would heal in a few days and left, Alice broke into

promised myself I wouldn’t cry.”

too. I wanted to say, but I didn’t. I wanted to hug her while she cried, but I didn’t want to be touched. So I held

Zach. And then his wife

said a few things, and I nodded my head to

there for me, I could come

knew that was an indication to the Lily drama and although that she was just a week ago, it seemed like a lifetime back. It suddenly seemed trivial

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

a minute since

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

hand softly before he

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

believing he’d never come, but finally, he came. The man I had been waiting to see since the moment I opened

hair was messed up, his

attention.

eyes were hollow even

bed like everyone else did. He sat on the edge of the bed right

front of me