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

I turn and walk, without waiting

does, all the way to the

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

off when she sees the man that enters the room

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smile, not-telling 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 be a

our little girl in her little box, his eyes pale as if he’d seen

repeats, looking spellbound. “Can I…

me had picked up the babies yet, something about minimising

NICU.

the glass box, and then pick her up, gently placing her in his

the way his hands trembled, the way he looked scared,

not taking

weighs heavy on my heart. Just

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

me.” Gabriel sounded horrified and I wanted to smile. I don’t. He doesn’t get any smiles from me, he doesn’t

not sure she

she doesn’t frown looking

because I

on his lips mimicking

him in his arms. I ignore the burning sensation that rises in my skin when my hand brushes

“Like Alexander?”

I scrunch my nose.

“He’s… bigger.”

suffered from a complication,” I tell him softly. “He grew more than

she’ll…” His

grow, I finish for him, “She’s

“He looks like me.

smile at my son,

little cry breaks our moment, and I stumble behind quickly, as if standing with him would mean I’d burn

my children. We weren’t a family, I had to

I tell

blankly, before it dawns on

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squirm

you wait outside?” I

doesn’t show. He

have a room. You can wait there. I point at the door leading to

the moment he was gone, the facade facing, I wanted to cry,