His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 86

Alex and Aurora: 2 and a half years old.

“Mama?” Alex called me, and I smiled at my little boy. He had spoken for the first time almost a year and a half ago, but it still made me grin every time he called me mama with his little voice

“Yes, baby?” I coord, picking him up in my arms and carrying him outside, letting his sister sleep,

“Play?” He blinked his huge eyes, and 1 nod.

“Of course, my love.”

1 carry him to the twins’ little play area in the house, and he happily hops out of my arms and into the soft area where his blocks and cars were kept along with Aurora’s dolls and a soft ball pit that they could jump into.

I watch as he puts a few blocks on top of one another, making a tower.

I

“Wow. That’s so tall.” I sit next to him, passing him the blocks one by one as he adds them onto his creation, careful not to topple them.

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was a quiet afternoon in our house. Gabriel was at work, and this was usually the time for the twins to nap but Alex had a sugar rush and couldn’t sleep. Even then, he wasn’t making noise, aware his sister was sleeping in the room next to ours.

“Mama… look!” He pointed at the tall tower, satisfied by how much he had managed to pile on.

1 was just about to praise him when he punched right in the centre of it, watching with a spark in his eyes how all of it fell down into many pieces.

“FUN!” He shouted, the grin of his mouth endless, his brown eyes showing so much sudden enthusiasm.

1 sighed, resisting the urge to face palm.

It’s bothersome how much destruction excites him.

“You’re supposed to build, my love. Not break.” I remind him gently, smiling at his antics.

“If no break, then how build again?” He pouts, and I nearly laugh

watching things break? It was concerning for Gabriel although I always laughed it

in the middle of racing his cars

“Yes Alex?”

or the sound of footsteps, I turned

called him with my eyebrows furrowed. “You’re home so

he walked over to the play area through the little white gate, kissing me softly “How

had a cookie after lunch,” I told my husband as he settled across from me, and

his son, placing a big kiss on

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over Gabriel’s coat,

1 gled

one day let a little child run his toy car over

Gabriel?”

was missing

“And not me?” 11

pout.

chuckled, but it wasn’t as open as I

from Gabriel’s hold, diving into

closer eye on him, dipping his feet

the same way. His shoulders were tense, and

able to rest

my head, taking a deep breath over my head as if to

forehead creases “A bad dream? What

from somewhere from work, I think. And I

on his arm

could save only one of you.

of my free hand, and he intertwined our fingers, bring it closer to his lips to place a kiss on my

for a brief second. “Since I woke up, there is a certain

just a dream, Gabriel,” I

to me only briefly. “I know.” He looks away again, to Alex. “But if I was ever given such an impossible choice, yo know I would put myself through a hundred deaths

that,” I whisper. “You’re a good father, Gabriel And

“Do you think the twins will hate me when

they wouldn’t.” My eyebrows furrow, my voice a little sharp. They will never find out. And even if they do, they wouldn’t hate you because