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.

and I felt like I was being crushed by a thousand pounds. I nod

Day 17:

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

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

curse under my breath. Every where I turn was a

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

say something but decided against it at the last moment.

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of the window at the dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as if

the ghost of her smiles

work had become my home. I had

who I had forgotten was here, clears his throat. “Maybe

her home, Zach. I need to… I… I lose my words, feeling lost and

expressions reflected in his voice. “Sleep, buddy.

Day on

going

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

to take off

were surprised looking at me. stopped

Thad

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 all day and

just couldn’t be

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

it to

I had

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le get away from here, but curiosity got the best of me when the lady returned with

the packing to reveal a blue square box,

that

ago.

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