His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

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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, Lily. You should move

breathes. “Goodbye,

“Goodbye.”

work. In the end, I decided the former. I took

check on Alister, how he was taking the news of his cancer. If it weighed down on me,

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He greeted me with a smile when I found him sitting by his outdoor

sipping, which didn’t look anything like his regular black coffee, and looked a whole

smile was so wide, it was nauseating. “I

ask, taking the chair opposite to him. “Let me know if you are so that

empire we have today.

the pool. We need

grump.” He rolls

it from

called you last night to invite you to my pool day. Your phone was switched

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

okay?”

reply in an unsure voice, “Did

The phone looked new just like every other new phone did,

then again, Lily did call, and I did

says, and unlocks his phone to dial

but the call

my phone.” I groan, “How the hell did I exchange my

important on it? Something that would be a nightmare to clean,

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

sarcasm. “Since your phone is switched off, I don’t think you have much to

phone, how did she call me? I recall, ‘Oh,

“What?”

exchanged my phone with hers last

“You were

glare. “I

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called you in the morning and didn’t mention that

number she had called from. The phone goes through, but

“I’m going to have to go to her