His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 80

When Gabriel got back, it was as if a flip had switched in him. His eyes were distant, cold, angry,

“If I wouldn’t have come here today, I would have never known about my kids?” He demanded.

“Your kids?” I raise my eyebrows. “I carry them for eight months, and they’re suddenly your kids?!”

“You

know what I mean.”

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“No, actually, I don’t.” I scowl, “You chose to give me divorce papers. I left you a voicemail telling you I’m pregnant and that you’re welcome to be a part of the kids’ life and I don’t want anything from you if you don’t want to be around for them.”

“What voicemail?” He asked, cutting off my little rant.

one I left you, about a month and a

get

it’s because I called from an unknown number, so I

voicemail! That’s how you wished to inform

I didn’t owe it to you after you served me divorce papers and when I called

not cross the distance between us. “I ran into Lily at a local cafeteria the day before you came home. We accidentally exchanged phones, and I didn’t even

I would have actually believed him. “Why are you lying to me? What are you going to get out of

the way he called me Freckles in that little, surprised gasp hurt. “Why… Why would lie

my shoulders in a tiny, tired shrug. I saw her call. At my grandfather’s house, I saw the caller I her. You left me there and had to return because she called. You lied to me about it being a work emergency, and you continued lying to me all the days I was there. And you’re lying to me now giving me some bullshit story about

and you accidentally

into

squeeze myself further aback into the chair, not wanting to be close to him. He takes a deep breath. “I didn’t..

I shake my head.

calling from Lily’s phone. He called me back. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. I spent the three days that you weren’t there flying to the best oncologist in America, and then meeting Lily’s uncle Dr. Michael Grant at that cafe because if the paparazzi would’ve snapped me at his clinic, it would’ve been a PR disaster. That’s why I met

said. Unable to find a proper response, I settle

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