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,”

still baffled, but

waiting for him,

the way to the

his expressions flash the confusion, but

so big that I think they would fall off when she sees the man that enters the room behind me, but quickly gets up from the

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husband is the last thing I wanted. But he was the father of

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

repeats, looking spellbound. “Can I… May I pick her

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

NICU.

box, and then pick her up, gently

miss the way his hands trembled, the way he looked scared, as if he

so beautiful, He mutters, not taking his eyes off her.

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

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

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

baby. I’m not sure she

frown looking

I feed

frown on his lips mimicking his

the burning sensation

“Like Alexander?”

scrunch my nose.

“He’s… bigger.”

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

His

I finish

“He looks like me.

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

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

children. We

I

at me blankly, before it dawns on him.

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I squirm

wait outside?”

he doesn’t show. He

the door leading to my

facade facing, I wanted to cry, but I