His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 51

Chapter 51

The small party lasted for a few hours. We had lunch, and boy, was I happy to taste food other than that from the hospital.

I think I must’ve had the most that day, like a teenage boy with an insatiable appetite,

Zach and Anna had some wine, they made jokes about the time the three of them used to hang g out and Gabriel used to

third wheel them.

I didn’t talk, but they filled the silence enough.

I was tired when Gabriel kicked them out. He does that a lot these days, I realised. It wasn’t just Sam. Any time I felt drowsy. he didn’t hesitate asking any company we had, to leave.

Zach and Anna didn’t mind his bluntness. They were used to it. They were his found family.

It was early evening when we went upstairs and Gabriel c*cked an eyebrow at me. “Where are you going?” He asked.

I blinked, confused. “Room?”

He smiled. “You’re cute,”

I knew he was just teasing me and not complimenting, but my checks heated. Oh, I really was in trouble. “What?”

“I asked Luna to shift some of your things to my room,” He replied nonchalantly. “Only some, because I didn’t have space for all of it. Once you’re feeling better, I can call in my interior designer who can help you make changes to the room to fit your wardrobe needs.”

I just stared at him for a second too long, flabbergasted. “What?” sounded like a broken tape recorder.

“What?” He repeated. “You didn’t think I was going to let you live alone at the end of the hallway, did you?” An eyebrow was raised again, and then his lips lifted to reveal a smug smile. “Besides, we’re husband and wife. Don’t you think we should start acting like it?”

Had he forgotten the whole Lily thing that happened just before I left? It was two weeks before, but the sting that I had been trying to ignore still felt fresh when I thought about it.

“Gabriel. Reluctance must clear in my voice, because he sighed

“Just come, please?”

I stare, sigh, and then nod.

He leads the way.

Once we’re in his room, I see it. The pastel pink throw over shifted from my room to his, a stark contrast to his modern furniture. An emptied wardrobe which originally had his business suits was now lined up with shoes and bags, and I’m assuming my clothes were in the added wardrobe.

my nightstand, a childhood

is also shifted.

keenly take in. “And if you don’t want

couch, I wanted to tease, I don’t. I just

the privacy you need here.

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I didn’t want to talk about this, I just wanted to be delusional and believe that the man I had fallen in love with did more than care for me because I was his responsibility. But I had avoided this topic long enough, so I gulp

his arms around my back. “We’ll talk about it after you heal. I know I wronged you by not telling you the truth about

ou a bath?”

reflects it, placing a feather kiss on my forehead. “Now, you want

my eyebrows playfully.

I figured I better get used to it since I have self-appointed myself as your assistant

I laugh.

kept looking

gaze, I bite

“Nothing”

He really did give

the bathroom. In moments, I could hear the

about running me a

just settled on a bathrobe, figuring I’d ask Luna about it later. I could ask now, but I didn’t

in front of the long mirror, the clothes I

mark along my torso, spreading from under my left breast, all the way to the right, and a little towards the back. It was stained with colours of

It hurt.

the first time I was seeing the mark it left, multiple of them. In the hospital, all my showers were sponge

It was clear now.

wasn’t the only thing that left a mark. There were brown coloured lines where the ropes were tied on my wrists and ankles, the one on the ankle being more prominent. There were

hurt in different

staring at my bruises with undivided attention and pain, because I didn’t realise when

He was also paranoid, because I hadn’t been left alone since I was found,

Or get scared. Maybe even go into a

I felt numb.

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Gabriel stood behind me.

him, ‘so much for the privacy you promised me, and kick him out or kiss him, depending on

didn’t even

eyes fixated on Gabriel in the mirror, and his on my body. They wandered, through every

belt mark for so long that I felt conscious, squirmy under his gaze. His soft expressions disappeared to turn stone cold, the affection and concern in his eyes dissipating to give way to anger before he looked up at me. “Never again,” he promised, “I will burn the world if it means that the warmth of the flames will keep you warm. No one. except me will ever touch you again, and

both sides, pulling me closer

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