His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 77

Chapter 77

Day 12:

There have been zero transactions?” I ask Peter.

“Zero, Sir.” He confirms, his lips thinned into a straight line.

“Has Lou called back yet?”

“No, Sir. Mrs. Whitlock and Luna both took a flight the day after she….” He pauses, looks away. “Left. And Lou found out that the flight she took went either to Chicago or Philadelphia. The authorities wouldn’t give us their CCTV footage, and your grandfather did ask the mayor to put some pressure. We still haven’t heard back from the airport authorities.”

I nod

At least she was safe.

At least she was safe.

“Call our contacts in both Chicago and Philadelphia, ask them to search for her. If they can find any reservations, any registrations under the name of Sophia Whitlock, I want to know.”

Peter nods, and then just stares at me.

Hake a breath. “What is it?”

“With all due respect, Sir. I… I don’t think she would go with Sophia Whitlock.”

Huh?

I raise my eyebrows in question

“I.. I think… I.. I believe,” he takes a deep breath as if scared for his life, “I think that she would go with the name Sophia Baker

now.”

Oh.

being crushed by a thousand pounds.

Day 17:

I tell Lou over the call we were on since the past twenty minutes. “She inherited

Whitlock. You cannot just pinpoint a place and expect me to find her. Besides, London is in the

breath. Every

you for everything you’re doing, Lou. Please keep

something but decided against it at the last moment. “Okay,’ she replied, and then the phone went

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me, staring out of the window at the dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as

Being surrounded by the ghost of her smiles and touch

become my home. I had

forgotten was here, clears his

need to get her home, Zach. I need to… I… I lose my

to hide in his expressions reflected in his voice. “Sleep, buddy.

Day on

going

be there to see through the expansion of the Whitlock company, but that wasn’t the

the slightest one, that I find my wife there, I was going

to take off

at me. stopped coming

Thad

office. I slept on the couch and I showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a

just couldn’t

it seemed

to

I had

по

dump fresh pair of clothes into a suitcase and le get away from here, but curiosity got the best of me when the lady returned

the packing to reveal a blue square

gift to me, one that

ago.

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