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

waiting for him, assuming,

all the

expressions flash the confusion, but if he

so big that I think they would fall off when she sees the man that enters the room behind me,

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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, I wasn’t going to deprive them of a

his eyes

spellbound. “Can I… May

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

NICU.

then pick her up, gently placing

hands trembled, the way he looked scared, as if he was

mutters, not taking his eyes

doesn’t finish his sentence, and it weighs heavy on

and that movement wakes her. She stares at him with her big eyes before a frown breaks out on her

wanted to smile. I don’t. He doesn’t get any smiles from me, he doesn’t

a baby. I’m not sure

doesn’t frown looking at

I feed

bitter, the frown on his

I ignore the burning sensation that rises in my skin

“Like Alexander?”

I scrunch my nose.

“He’s… bigger.”

suffered from a complication,” I tell him softly. “He grew more

His question

finish

“He looks like me.

smile at my son, who was still fast

breaks our moment, and I stumble behind quickly,

We weren’t a family, I had

I tell him,

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

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and I squirm

you wait outside?”

was hurt by that, he doesn’t show.

You can wait there. I point at the door leading to

moment he was gone, the facade facing, I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t, because I had to pick my daughter and coo