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,”

you.” Gabriel was still baffled, but couldn’t talk,

I turn and walk, without waiting

he does, all the way to the

sign outside and his expressions flash the

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

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wanted. But he was the father of my children, and if he wanted to be

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

he repeats, looking spellbound. “Can I… May I

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

NICU.

glass box, and then pick

trembled, the way he looked scared, as if he was picking

beautiful, He mutters, not taking

it weighs heavy

down, and that

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

baby. I’m not sure she likes anyone

frown

I

on

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

“Like Alexander?”

my nose. “Just

“He’s… bigger.”

I tell him softly. “He grew

His

finish for him,

“He looks like me.

I smile at my son, who

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

children. We

feed her, I tell him, clearing my

it dawns on him. “Oh.. OH.

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squirm

you wait outside?”

show. He just nods quickly.

the door

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