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 without meeting his eye.

Day 17:

a house in 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 know, I’m not sure, but if she’s

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

under my breath. Every where I turn was a

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

against it at the last

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window at the dark streets filling with grey clouds overhead as if there was a storm coming. Everyone went home for the day, but

Being surrounded by the ghost of her

work had become my home.

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

her home, Zach. I need to… I… I

expressions reflected in his voice. “Sleep,

Day on

going to

had to be there to see through the expansion of the Whitlock company, but that wasn’t the reason

that I find

set to

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

Thad

the bath my grandfather thankfully had gotten made a few years ago when he worked all day and needed

couldn’t be

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

to my

I had

по

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 the lady

to reveal a blue square box, and opened it

gift to me, one that had ordered all

ago.

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