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,”

baffled, but couldn’t talk, so

and walk, without waiting for him,

the way

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

the room behind me, but quickly gets up

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being alone with 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, I

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

spellbound. “Can I… May I

Nobody except me had picked up the babies yet, something about minimising germ contact while they were

NICU.

glass box, and then pick her up, gently placing her in his

his hands trembled, the way he

beautiful, He mutters, not taking his eyes off her. “Just

it weighs heavy on

towards Alex, picking him up 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

and I wanted to smile. I don’t. He doesn’t get

a baby. I’m not

doesn’t frown looking at

because I feed

looked bitter, the frown on his

placing him in his arms. I ignore the burning sensation that rises

“Like Alexander?”

scrunch my

“He’s… bigger.”

suffered from a complication,” I tell him softly.

she’ll…” His

grow, I finish

“He looks like me.

I smile at my son, who was still

breaks our moment, and I stumble behind quickly, as if standing with him would mean I’d

father of my children. We weren’t a family, I had to remind

feed her, I tell

dawns on

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I squirm under

you wait outside?”

hurt by that, he doesn’t show. He

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

to cry, but I couldn’t, because