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,”

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

and walk, without waiting for him, assuming, hoping

the way to the

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

off when she sees the man that enters the room behind me, but quickly gets up

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give her a little smile, not-telling her that 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,

our little girl in her little box, his eyes pale as if he’d seen a ghost. “Aurora,” I tell him, “I

spellbound. “Can I… May I

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

NICU.

pick

he

taking his eyes off her.

sentence, and it weighs heavy on my heart. Just like

Aurora down, and that movement wakes her. She stares at him with her big eyes before a frown breaks

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

I’m not sure she likes anyone

frown looking

I

on

in his arms. I ignore the burning sensation that

“Like Alexander?”

I scrunch my nose.

“He’s… bigger.”

complication,” I tell him softly. “He grew more than she

she’ll…” His

I finish for

“He looks like me.

copy.” I smile at my son, who was still fast

our moment, and I stumble behind quickly, as if standing with him would

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

feed her, I tell him,

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

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and I squirm under his

you wait outside?”

he was hurt by that, he doesn’t show. He just nods quickly. “Can

a room. You can wait there. I point at the door leading to my room, and he nods in quiet acknowledgment before moving to the

wanted to cry, but I couldn’t, because I had to pick my daughter and coo her