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.

thousand pounds. I nod without

Day 17:

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

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

breath. Every where I

you’re doing, Lou. Please keep finding

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

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

Being surrounded by the ghost of her smiles and

home.

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

need to get her home, Zach. I need to… I… I

that Zach tried to hide in his expressions reflected

Day on

was going to

through the expansion of the Whitlock company,

that I find my

to take off next

the housekeepers were surprised looking at me. stopped

Thad

grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few years

couldn’t

said, and it seemed like she

it to my

I had

по

fresh pair of clothes into a suitcase and le get away from here, but curiosity got the best of me when the lady returned with a

packing to reveal a blue square box,

that

ago.

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