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

at my Grandpa’s funeral. I… It was for six months. It’s

I felt inside. Tears that I was trying hard to contain

up, okay? I’m not really sure, but he had mentioned in passing that he would send the divorce papers to you

you.” I sucked in a deep

wasn’t real. You and him. I’m sorry. I..

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. How naive and desperate I sounded, I was aware. But I didn’t care. “If he really is sleeping next to you, you tell that coward to have the decency to at least tell

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giving her the chance

vision and I had to put my hand on my

have dealt with this. Maybe it would hur just this

with this now,

my Grandpa

have anyone to turn

had cried so much in the past week that crying more

had faith

We were real.

We were real.

his wife, every promise he made me to not leave, every time he reassured me about Lily, it was all

to go to the bathroom to

earlier.

it and with trembling hands, I opened it to reveal the

were signed by

papers were signed

signed the divorce

that? The alimony amount written in bold letters, the terms of our contract underlined with a dotted

he’d tear the

contract didn’t

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