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.

gave you the closure you deserved,

she breathes. “Goodbye,

“Goodbye.”

my a*s off and going to work. In the end, I decided the former. I took a quick run to one of my manufacturing work places to check on the process

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

the drink he was sipping, which didn’t look anything like his regular black coffee, and looked a whole lot like a

was so wide, it was nauseating. “I

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

empire we have today. Now that it’s

in the evening by the pool. We need to revisit

grump.” He rolls his

it from

to my pool day. Your phone was

password to the phone. Weird. I always had the default lock and home screen so that

everything okay?”

phone… it isn’t mine. I reply in an unsure voice, “Did it format itself last

having an impersonal phone and changing models every few months. The phone looked new just like every

did call, and I

on. My grandfather says, and

wait, but the call never goes

hell did I exchange my phone? And

you have anything important on it? Something that would be a nightmare to clean, work wise

linked to my Mac. I can track it any where and if someone somehow disables the tracking, I can wipe it clean

sweet technology.” He looks away, his voice dripping with sarcasm. “Since your phone is switched off, I

called me. If this isn’t my phone, how did she call me? I

“What?”

“I exchanged my phone with hers

“You were with

II give him a stony glare. “I

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in the morning and didn’t mention

from. The phone goes through,

groan. “I’m going to have