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.

crushed by a thousand pounds. I nod without meeting his eye. “Ask them to search for

Day 17:

minutes. “She inherited it from her father, and I don’t know,

expect me to find her. Besides, London is in the UK

silently curse under my breath. Every where

for everything you’re doing, Lou. Please

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

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dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as if there was

home hurt. Being surrounded by the ghost of her smiles

my home. I had

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

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

to hide in his expressions

Day on

was going to

Whitlock company, but that wasn’t

slight chance, the slightest one, that I find my wife there, I was going to take

set to take off

returned home that day exhausted from work, and I think even the housekeepers were surprised looking at me. stopped coming home. I came once a week, grabbed frozen

Thad

my office. I slept on the couch and I showered in the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few

couldn’t be

came for you a few days ago.” One of the housekeepers said, and it seemed like she was sweating

it to

I had

по

just wanted to dump fresh pair of clothes into a suitcase and le get away from here, but curiosity

stripped the packing to reveal a blue square box, and opened it to a

me, one that had

ago.

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