His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 65

Chapter 65

I didn’t think the call would be picked up. A part of me didn’t want it to be, because what if the reality was worse than my overthinking?

When the phone stopped ringing, there was silence on the other end. I had to check to confirm that the call had been picked up before pressing it back to my ear real quick. “Hello? Gabriel?”

Silence again.

My heart was beating so loudly, I felt it would make its way out of my body any moment. “Hello?”

Silence again.

“Mhm.” A sleepy groggy voice answered, “Who’s speaking?”

My heart sank so quick in my chest, I didn’t have the time to process it. It wasn’t Gabriel speaking. The voice was very feminine. Very familiar. Very dreaded.

I couldn’t speak back. I sat numb.

“Hello?” The soft voice belonging unmistakably to my husband’s ex asked again.

“Lily” greeted, my voice sounding so unfamiliar and foreign. “Where’s my husband?”

“Shit Shit. Sophia. Shit. I didn’t check the caller ID before picking up. I thought it was my phone, Shit. Her self r ended with a small, “Shit. I’m so sorry.”

Tears were stinging my eyes. “Where’s my husband?

One blink and they would fall. One blink and they would fall. I kept focusing on the wall. This wasn’t happening. This isn’t happening. This is not real.

“Sophia, you shouldn’t hear it from me… Her voice trailed. “Listen, he’ll call you back, okay?”

“Give him the phone, Lily. Right now.”

“Sophia… he’s he’s asleep.”

gulped. “He’s asleep with

of sympathy that nobody even showed me at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was for six months. It’s over.

broken as I felt inside. Tears that

up, okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing that he would

I sucked in a

“It wasn’t real. You and him. I’m

going to, not until he tells me this himself.” I was aware of how pathetically clingy this would sound if she was telling the truth, if he had really sent me divorce papers, if it really was over.

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Chapter 65

giving her the

my vision and I had to put my hand on my mouth to

time, I could have dealt with this. Maybe it would hur just this much, but I didn’t have the

with this now,

when my Grandpa

didn’t have anyone

so much in the past week that crying more made me feel weak, and I was anything

had faith

We were real.

We were real.

time he told me I was his wife, every promise he made me to

to freshen up when

earlier.

way to it and with trembling hands,

signed by

divorce papers were signed by

signed the

underlined with a

said he’d tear the

didn’t

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