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.

felt like I was being crushed by a thousand pounds. I nod without meeting

Day 17:

were on since the past twenty minutes. “She inherited it from her father, and I

to find her. Besides, London is

silently curse under my breath. Every where I turn

doing, Lou. Please keep finding her. Don’t

something but decided against it at

1/3

in front of me, staring out of the window at the dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as if there was a storm coming. Everyone went home for the day, but not

the ghost of her smiles and

home. I had begun staying

forgotten was here, clears his

I need to… I… I lose my words,

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

Day on

was going to

through the expansion of the Whitlock company, but that wasn’t the reason I was going. If

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

was set to take off next

the housekeepers were surprised looking at me. stopped coming home. I came once a week, grabbed frozen food and clothes for the

Thad

I slept on the couch and I showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few years ago when he worked all day and needed to

couldn’t

a delivery came for you a few days ago.” One of the housekeepers said, and it seemed like she was sweating just by talking to me.

to

I had

по

for whatever came for me. I just wanted to dump fresh pair of clothes into a suitcase and le get

reveal a blue

me, one that had

ago.

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