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 he settles

and walk, without waiting for

he does, all the way

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

enters the room behind me, but quickly gets up from the chair and stumbles outside with

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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

box, his eyes pale as

“Can I… May

the babies yet, something about

NICU.

pick her up, gently placing

miss the way his hands trembled, the way he looked scared, as if he was picking up an

mutters, not taking his eyes off her. “Just

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

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

smile. I don’t. He doesn’t get

not sure she likes anyone

doesn’t frown looking

I feed

frown on his

ignore the burning sensation that rises in my skin when my hand brushes against

“Like Alexander?”

I scrunch my

“He’s… bigger.”

him softly. “He grew more than

His

finish for

“He looks like me.

copy.” I smile at my son, who

stumble behind quickly, as if standing with him

my children. We weren’t a family, I

I tell him, clearing

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

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and I squirm under

wait outside?”

he doesn’t show. He just nods quickly. “Can I take

at the door

the facade facing, I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t, because I had to pick my