His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 75

GABRIEL (continued…)

The next morning:

I seemed to have been in a comatose. The nights of not sleeping in Sophia’s hometown because she couldn’t sleep, and then coming back and working away my nights had finally caught up to me.

I don’t know for how long I slept, but it was definitely the most intense sleep I had had in a very long time.

I woke up to my phone buzzing next to me,

For the first time, how much time it was and how quick I needed to get to work weren’t the first things on my mind.

“Hello?” I press the phone to my ears without looking at the caller ID.

“Gabriel,” There was a breathy whisper on the other end. “It’s me. Lily”

“Lily.” I repeated after her, a little dumbstruck and foggy. “Hi”

“Hey,”

My mind cleared, and suddenly, all the sleep disappeared. I rolled over to the other side of the bed, Sophia’s room and her paintings coming into my view.

“Lily,” I greeted again, clearing my throat. “What’s up?”

“Nothing. Um. There was another question in my mind that I couldn’t get myself to ask last evening.”

I shut my eyes, putting my hand through my hair. I would be frustrated if I wasn’t in a situation of my own making. Scratch that. I was still frustrated. “Hm?”

“Did you ever love me?”

“In my own ways. I did, Lily.”

“And if it wasn’t for Sophia, do you think we would have a chance?”

“I don’t know.” I tell her, truthfully. I don’t mention how I had bought a ring and if I would’ve proposed, I would’ve loyal to her till she left me herself. But to be trapped in a marriage like that, so loveless and dry, it scared me after all with Sophia. “Look, I don’t think we should be talking. It isn’t fair to my wife.”

I could hear a sniff from the other end.

closure you deserved, Lily. You

she breathes. “Goodbye,

“Goodbye.”

a*s off and going to work. In the end, I decided the former. I took a quick run to one

still with Sophia in her hometown, and I wanted to check on Alister, how he was taking the news of his cancer. If

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me with a smile when I found him sitting by

sipping,

smile was so wide, it was

him. “Let me know if you are so that I can call

frowns. “I spent all my life working and building the empire we have today. Now that it’s in your hands, I can finally enjoy the remainder of my

need to

grump.” He rolls

from

my

no missed calls.” I unlock it, and notice that there is no password to the phone. Weird. I always had the default lock and home screen so that remained the same, but everything inside was different. There were no apps, no photos, and no

okay?” Alister

reply in an unsure voice, “Did it format itself last

The phone looked new just like every other new phone did, but it didn’t seem

then again, Lily did call, and I did

says, and unlocks his phone

wait, but the call

I groan, “How the hell did I exchange my phone? And with

that

it any where and if someone somehow disables the tracking, I

your phone is

phone,

“What?”

wince. “I exchanged my phone with hers last

frowns at me. “You were with Lily

glare. “I ran into her. Maybe we

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called you in the morning and didn’t

the number she had called from. The

going to have to