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 should move

she breathes.

“Goodbye.”

contemplate between going back to sleep or getting my a*s off and going to work. In the end, I decided the former. I took a quick run to one

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

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Son.” He greeted me with a smile when I

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

smile was so wide, it was nauseating.

the chair opposite to him. “Let me know if you are so that I can call

my life working and building the empire we have today. Now that it’s in your hands, I can

pool. We need to revisit your definition of enjoying your life,”

grump.” He rolls his

it from

you to my pool day. Your phone was switched off. Your

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.

okay?”

in an unsure

me for having an impersonal phone and changing models every few months. The phone

again, Lily did call, and I

grandfather says, and

the call never goes

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

important on it? Something that would be a nightmare to

roll my eyes. “Besides, it’s linked to my Mac. I can track it any where and if someone somehow disables the

with sarcasm. “Since your phone

this isn’t my phone, how did

“What?”

exchanged my phone with hers

at me. “You were with

stony glare. “I ran into

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the morning and

from.

going to have to