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

walk, without waiting for him,

does, all the way

his expressions flash the confusion, but if he wanted to

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

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that being alone with my ex husband is the last thing I wanted. But he was the father of my children,

Gabriel was staring at our little girl in her little box, his eyes pale as if

repeats, looking spellbound. “Can I…

babies yet, something about minimising germ contact

NICU.

glass box, and then pick

didn’t miss the way his hands trembled, the way he looked scared, as

beautiful, He mutters, not taking

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

move 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 breaks out on

don’t. He doesn’t get any smiles from me, he doesn’t

a baby. I’m not sure she likes

she doesn’t frown looking

because I feed

the frown on his

arms. I ignore the burning

“Like Alexander?”

scrunch my

“He’s… bigger.”

from a complication,” I tell him softly.

His question

finish for him,

“He looks like me.

copy.” I smile at my son, who was

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

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

need to feed her, I tell him,

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

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squirm

wait outside?” I

show. He just nods

nod. “I have a room. You can wait there. I point at the door leading to my room,

to cry,