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.

you

breathes.

“Goodbye.”

it aside, and 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 of my manufacturing work places to check on the process of my upcoming London deal, and then

cancer. If it weighed down on me, I was sure it did on him

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a smile when I found him sitting by his outdoor

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

smile was so wide, it

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

frowns. “I spent all my life working and building the empire we have today. Now that it’s in

drinking early in the evening by the pool. We need to revisit your definition of enjoying your life,”

a grump.” He rolls his

it from the

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

remove my phone. “No, 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

okay?” Alister

reply in an

every few months. The phone looked new just

Lily did call, and I did

My grandfather says, and unlocks his phone to

wait, but the

the hell did

Something that would be

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

away, his voice dripping with sarcasm. “Since your phone is switched off, I don’t

my phone, how did she

“What?”

“I exchanged my phone with hers

me. “You

II give him a stony glare. “I ran into her. Maybe we

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“So she called you in the morning and

from. The phone goes

groan. “I’m going to have to go