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.”

“I used the tube there because I thought if there was a chance you were in

finish his sentence for him and

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Chapter 81

for the list of financial

a lot,” I murmur, “I was sort

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

had to change numbers,

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

I repeat in a silent acknowledgement of all that we had gone through, and somehow we were still sitting across from each other as a family, which we’ll always

with dinner. Time passes quickly when you have six months worth of stories to share, and you need to feed your twins in

sure you’re up to driving back for three hours?” I asked Gabriel, noticing how droopy his eyes look when he ignited the car. He had been staying up nights to let me sleep as much as I can,

I am quite

drive?” I

“Aren’t you tired too?”

to the city for just a dinner was a bad

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

both awake but not crying. They’d be hungry any time

“That’s been

“Shut? You had like a million house staffs.

jobs, Freckles. I repositioned them

nod twice. “Okay then. To this other

smug smile 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

liked it. It was warm

too much at the huge garden area it had and the wrap-around porch. I followed hum inside the wooden doors to the warm homely passage

house is this?”

“You like it?”

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furniture with a traditional touch that still looked intricately designed, but at least it was

from me, Alex placed down on

this house?” He asked, and I shake my head. “Let me tell

the shut rooms opens and Luna walks out, a

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

take care of the babies while Sir

she takes little Aurora from my hand and sits next

me through the house- the master bedroom with a his and her wardrobe, the kitchen with a

was beating rapidly, 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

aren’t impressed by

am too impressed.” I say, almost

house isn’t mine,” he says, and I release the breath I didn’t know

entrance?”

walk anymore 1 let him take me to the gate, where the

Sophia.

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