His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 84

Chapter 84

Two weeks later, at a few days over two months, Alex rolled for the first time. He didn’t completely roll, he jerked his body to the side looking at the sound emitting toy I’d kept there and accidentally fell on his tummy. Hence, a “roll.”

1, who was grabbing a new onesie for him after bathing him, froze.

The paediatrician had told us that they would begin rolling after three months but he’d just turned two.

Gabriel had grinned so wide, and announced his son was an ‘overachiever’.

I spent a week explaining to him that it was a one-off, that he didn’t actually mean to roll, it was accidental, but that man was a proud father who wanted to celebrate.

That’s h

‘s how we found ourselves in the city despite my hundred protests. With the twins both tucked in the backseat in their car seats, strollers packed in the boot and Gabriel driving, we were here at a fancy diner of his choice.

I looked at the twins and then at him. “Are we sure this is a celebration for the babies?”

“No, they’re too young for a celebration,” he grinned, looking up from the menu he had his face buried in. “This celebration

is for us.

“Us?” I control the urge to roll my eyes.

“Yeah. We made something awesome. Actually, two somethings.

I laugh, cringing. “Only you can say something like that.”

“And it’s pretty here,” he adds. I sigh. Between the top floor diner with glass walls overlooking the city lights and the private section we were left in so that I can have privacy to feed the twins when I need, it was pretty. Pretty… extravagant. Couldn’t fault him there.

After we place our orders, I ask him something I have been meaning to ask for weeks now. “How was your time like? In London?”

He looks at me like he was surprised at the question, and answers while his index finger is still held in Aurora’s little hand. “It was…” He paused, as if he was forcing himself to say the next word. “Lonely,”

“Lonely?”

“You know I rode the subway there instead of taking the car? It’s called the tube there, though.”

“You did?” I asked, ignoring the last part.

“In the early days of our marriage, when I had to go to a meeting and Alister asked me to take you with me, you offered to take the subway instead of bothering me,” he recalled, a gentle smile on his lips.

“I remember.” My expressions mirror his. “The meeting was at Arthur’s and you really didn’t want me there.”

“Now you know why,” he deadpanned.

“I do, I giggle, fondly remembering the early months of our marriage, the time where I fell in love with him. “I also remember you called me middle class for wanting to use the subway.”

his lips. “I used the tube there because I thought if there

by trains.” I finish his sentence for

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Chapter 81

worked with there, I asked for the list of financial analysts on

didn’t really work a lot,”

did everything to find you except check my voicemails, he joked, and I can’t help but smile at the irony. “I don’t know how I could’ve been so st*pid. I guess I never thought you’d change numbers if

to change

water, and I raise mine of regular water. I couldn’t have alcohol since I was breast feeding, and someone was giving me company by giving up all the things I couldn’t have. Coffee, by

through, and somehow we were

Time passes quickly when you have six months worth of stories to

when he ignited the car. He had been staying up nights to let

am quite tired.” He

drive?” I

“Aren’t you tired too?”

the way to the city for just a dinner

the night,” he reluctantly offers, “If you’re

be hungry any time soon though, owing it had been two

been shut for months

You had like a million house staffs. What happened

of jobs, Freckles. I repositioned them at

then. To this other

as he drives off, and the place he was talking about wasn’t as far as I had expected from the main city. It was in a neighbourhood and not isolated,

It was

it had and the wrap-around porch. I followed hum inside the wooden doors to the warm homely

house is this?” I ask

“You like it?”

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I say, sitting on the couch, admiring my surroundings, the modern furniture with a traditional touch that still looked intricately designed, but at least it was not right out of a Vogue

Alex

head. “Let me tell

and Luna walks out, a bigger grin on

is the best part of this house?” I joke before turning to her “What’re you

to take care of the babies while Sir shows

I blink, as she takes little Aurora from my hand

with a his and her wardrobe, the kitchen with a rustic brick wall and open counter, an extra room, a room that

I finally question him when we get back to the wrap around porch. “Gabriel,” I whisper, stopping him at the entrance of the house. “Please

you aren’t impressed by all of

too impressed.” I say,

he says, and I release the breath I didn’t know I was holding. “Did you not see the name at

entrance?”

take me to the gate, where the wall of the house had a name

Sophia.

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