His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 87

Alex and age 4 years.

“Baby?” Aurora fluttered her eyes as the twins sat dutifully next to me while I laid down on the bed. Her little fingers lay on my baby bump and she stared at it as if she was expecting the baby to rise out of it any moment.

I was six months pregnant, and had started to show. We had waited to tell the twins about it for a long time because after my complications with the twins, this was a high-risk pregnancy. We wanted to be safe and make sure the little baby was safe before we involved our toddlers into this.

“Mama?” Alex was frowning. “Why one more baby?”

“Well…” I trailed, looking at my husband for help, who despite sitting on that very bed behind the twins, just shrugged.

I glared at him before giving Alex a smile. “Don’t you want a younger brother or a sister, sweetheart?”

His frown deepened. “Brother or sister?”

“Well, we don’t know the gender yet,” 1 provided. “I didn’t even know before you and Aurora were born.”

“Girl” Aurora grinned.

“You think it’s going to be a girl?” Gabriel mused from behind.

She nodded quickly, taking her hands off me and shifting towards her father, who was very quick to take her off the bed and take her in his arms, kissing her crown.

My eyes flickered back to Alex, who looked like he was in deep thought.

“Alex?” I called him softly, resisting the urge to laugh at his antics. He was four, but he could behave like he was fourteen, really.

“Big brother, mama?” He asked, and I smile.

“Yes, my love, you’ll be an elder brother.”

He huffs. “Unnecessary!”

My lips part in surprise, and I looked at my husband who decided it was finally time to intervene. “Alex Whitlock,” Gabrie called him, his voice a little stern, “Do not call your younger sibling unnecessary!”

Alex’s frown deepened and soon turned into a sob, and his eyes quickly flickered from me to Gabriel. “You no love me!”

“Alex!” My eyes widen and I straighten to get hold of him, but he was already rolling down from my bed. “Of course we love you!”

Gabriel was shaking his head and getting Aurora off so he could follow behind his son by the time he was stomping out of the room. “If you love me then why new baby?!”

“Alex, wait!” I call after him, getting up slowly and with support while Gabriel sighs and follows him.

“Can you

ou not run?” Gabriel’s voice echoed in the hallway outside our room.

“I’ll be right back, okay Auro?” I tell my baby girl before walking behind the father-son duo, not keen on leaving them alone.

I could swear they were insane together. Alex would throw a tantrum and demand the craziest thing from his father who would agree to it without batting an eyelash.

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a new car and forgot to follow up on that while prepping for the wedding, so when he complaint to Gabriel about it,

A shiny, new, black BMW

smile thinking about the morning I had wokert up to the new car and accepted it thinking it was my husband’s love for cars that drove him to buy another one till my son was screaming in the daycare telling all his friends how his father bought him a car

really mad.

now, in retrospective, it was

called, wondering where they disappeared to. There was no noise coming from the twins’ room or

“Sophia! SOPHIA!” Gabriel screamed.

Screamed.

didn’t call

my bump and my heart beating so fast in my chest that

Blood

first thing I

But

sobbing, crying,

Sophia Gabriel’s voice snapped me out of my thoughts. He was leaned down, pressing on Alex’s head. “He was running up the stairs and he tripped. I-I think he

I was frozen.

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it all, but I was frozen. Alex was crying, but his cries were lesser and silenced with each passing second, his eyes drowsy. Gabriel was talking to him in an attempt to keep him awake while holding him, telling him

A nightmare.

That’s what this was.

A nightmare.

would have been frozen for a long time

Mama!” Aurora was tugging at my dress

girl, taking

wasn’t supposed to pick up weights which included my babies, but I didn’t

my daughter who was now crying. “Alex is going to

I think I don’t know what I screamed out in my daze but it was

loud, and the

back seat and I got in from the other end,

Gabriel drove.

called, tears filling in my

Aurora sobbed incoherently.

wouldn’t respond. His eyes were shut. He wouldn’t

mumbled, and I had no idea which one of

love you to Alex because when we reached the hospital, Gabriel carried Alex into the emergency

in my arms,

going to be okay, baby, I coaxed, my

Blood, mama!” She sobbed even more, and I repeated that he was going to be okay till Gabriel reappeared and took Aurora from

around me, pulling me

let the tears out. I know I should be strong, but I wasn’t. I couldn’t be. “He’s my baby, Gabriel,” I sniffed, trying to not let Aurora see my tears.

minute was forever. I was in the waiting area, staring

to fill in some forms and give his signature a

for what seemed like eternity, but it was just about fifteen minutes until

silent in his arms with an unopened candy bar in her hand, quietly sucking her thumb,