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 settles

and walk, without waiting for him,

he does, all the way to the

and his expressions flash

would fall off when she sees the man that enters the room behind me, but quickly gets up from the chair and stumbles outside with the words, Tll give you some

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Chapter 79

was the father of my

how keenly Gabriel was staring at our little girl in her little box, his eyes

spellbound. “Can I…

me had picked up the babies yet, something

NICU.

help open the glass box, and then pick her up, gently placing

way he looked scared,

not taking

doesn’t finish his sentence, and it weighs

the same time that Gabriel keeps little Aurora down, and that movement wakes her.

sounded horrified and I wanted to smile. I don’t. He

baby. I’m not sure

frown

because I feed

looked bitter, the frown on his lips

the burning sensation that rises in my skin when my hand brushes against his. “Alex,” I

“Like Alexander?”

scrunch my

“He’s… bigger.”

tell him softly. “He

His

finish for him,

“He looks like me.

my son, who was still fast

I stumble behind quickly, as if standing with him would mean I’d burn

was the father of my children. We

need to feed her, I tell him, clearing my

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

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I squirm

you wait outside?” I

by that, he doesn’t show. He

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

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