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

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

felt inside. Tears that

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

don’t believe you.” I sucked in

wasn’t real. You and him. I’m sorry. I.. You shouldn’t even be hearing this from

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 me it’s

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without giving her the chance to

over, I sobbed. Uncontrollable tears blurred my vision and I had to put my

would hur just this much,

with this now,

my Grandpa

have anyone to

in the past week that crying more made me feel weak, and

faith in

We were real.

We were real.

real, I reminded myself. Every time he told me I was his wife, every promise he made me to not leave, every time he reassured

my tears, I got up to go to the bathroom to freshen

earlier.

with trembling hands, I opened it to reveal the divorce

signed by

were signed

the divorce

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

said he’d tear

didn’t matter to

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