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.

a thousand pounds. I nod without meeting his eye.

Day 17:

has a house in London,” I tell Lou over the call we were on since the past twenty minutes. “She inherited it from her father, and I don’t know, I’m not sure, but if she’s nowhere, she

You cannot just pinpoint a place and expect me to find her. Besides, London is in the UK and I have no contacts there. I’m afraid

then silently curse under my breath. Every where I turn was a dead

Lou. Please keep finding her. Don’t

like she wanted to say something but decided against it at the last moment. “Okay,’ she

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laptop 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.

by the ghost of her smiles and touch

work had become my home. I had begun

here, clears his throat. “Maybe she doesn’t want

need to… I… I lose my words, feeling lost and

expressions reflected in his voice. “Sleep, buddy. You need the

Day on

going to

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

I find my wife there, I was going

set to

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

Thad

showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a

couldn’t

came for you a few days ago.” One of the housekeepers said, and it seemed like she was sweating just by talking to me. I’m not that

it to my

I had

по

of clothes into a suitcase and le get away from here, but curiosity got the best

to reveal a blue square box, and opened it

me, one that had ordered all those

ago.

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