His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 79

“Sophia?” I think he only murmured, and barely so, but the silence around us was so loud that it was effortlessly carried to

me

I took a reflexive step behind. All these monils, I had waited for this day. And today, when it was here, when he was here, I wanted to turn around and run back to my room, pretend I never saw him.

But I had. And he had seen me.

Gabriel shook his head, opened his mouth, and then immediately shut it again. “You… Hospital… Labour rooms… What?” He

sounded battled.

I sucked in a deep breath. I wanted to say something, anything, but nothing came out. I stood there, silent.

1 gulped when he took slow steps towards me.

“You’ve… you’ve gained weight. He murmured, “You’re on the OBGY floor, you’re coming from the labour rooms

Yes, genius, I wanted to say. I don’t.

“You….“ Gabriel pauses because his voice breaks. That’s when I notice how tired he looks. Not even the crisp black suit he was wearing could hide his sunken, red eyes or his messy hair as if he’s been passing his hand through it. “You were pregnant?”

I don’t know how, but I find the courage to nod. “You knew that, told you.”

“No, you didn’t!” He accuses, eyes filling with a coldness, voice full of anger.

His steps pause, and the concern and disbelief gets replaced by w fury.

And then, the fury dissipates just as quickly. “You were pregnant.

I nod.

“M.. Mine?”

I wanted to cry. I couldn’t, so I settle on nodding.

He sucks in a deep breath.

I ask gently, “Do you want to meet them?”

“Them?” He asks, “It’s a them?”

I nod again, pursing my lips to stop the smile that may have made it’s way to my lips in reflex while thinking of my little ones. A girl and a boy,”

Gabriel was still baffled, but couldn’t talk, so he

without waiting for him, assuming, hoping

does, all the way to

flinches when he sees the sign outside and his expressions flash the confusion, but

the room

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my ex husband is the last thing I wanted. But he was the father of my children, and if he wanted to be a part of their lives,

keenly Gabriel was staring at our little girl in her little box, his eyes pale as if he’d seen a ghost. “Aurora,” I

repeats, looking spellbound. “Can I… May I pick

me had picked up the babies yet, something about minimising germ contact while they were in

NICU.

pick her

way he looked scared,

He mutters, not taking his

finish his sentence, and it weighs heavy on my

at the same time that Gabriel keeps little Aurora down, and that movement wakes her. She stares at him with her big eyes before a frown breaks out on her

smile. I don’t.

a baby. I’m not sure she

she doesn’t frown

I feed

frown on

towards him with Alex and placing him in his arms. I ignore the burning sensation that rises in my skin when my hand brushes against his.

“Like Alexander?”

scrunch my nose.

“He’s… bigger.”

tell him softly.

His question

grow, I finish for him, “She’s

“He looks like me.

at my son, who was still

cry breaks our moment, and I stumble behind quickly, as

the father of my children. We

to feed her, I tell him, clearing

he stares at me blankly, before it dawns on him. “Oh.. OH. His

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I squirm under his

you wait outside?” I

was hurt by that, he doesn’t show.

point at the door

the moment he was gone, the facade facing, I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t, because I had