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.

dawns upon me, and I felt like I was being crushed by a thousand pounds. I nod without meeting his eye. “Ask them

Day 17:

twenty minutes. “She inherited it from her father, and I don’t know, I’m not sure, but if she’s nowhere,

pinpoint a place and expect me to find her. Besides, London is in the UK and I have no contacts there. I’m afraid

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

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

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

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the laptop in front of me, staring out of the window at the dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as if there

hurt. Being surrounded by the ghost

my home. I

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

to… I… I lose my

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

Day on

was going

of the Whitlock company, but that wasn’t the reason I

slightest one, that I find my

to take off next

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

Thad

my office. I slept on the couch and I showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few years ago when he worked

couldn’t be

a few days ago.” One of the housekeepers said, and it

it to my

I had

по

for whatever came for me. I just wanted to dump fresh pair of clothes into a suitcase and le get away from here, but curiosity got the best of me when

a blue square box, and

me, one that

ago.

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