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 his eye. “Ask them to search for Sophia Baker

Day 17:

in London,” I tell Lou over the call we were on since the past twenty minutes. “She

find her. Besides, London is in the UK and I have

my breath. Every where I turn

you for everything you’re doing, Lou.

it at the last moment. “Okay,’ she replied, and then

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

by the ghost of her smiles and touch

work had become my home. I had

who I had forgotten was here, clears his throat. “Maybe she doesn’t want to

I need to… I… I lose my words,

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

Day on

going to

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

chance, the slightest one, that I find my wife there, I

was set to take off next

housekeepers were surprised looking at me. stopped coming home.

Thad

I showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few years ago when he

couldn’t

and it seemed like she was sweating just by talking to me. I’m

it to my

I had

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

a blue square

gift to me, one that had ordered all

ago.

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