His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 93

[MIA]

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was in the centre of a world that every parent warned their chill to stay away from. When the tears dried out and my voice gave up from crying, begging and screaming from the room I was locked in but the door never opened, anger made its way

to me.

He is the mafia. He is dangerous, a murderer, and those veiny arms and long fingers with which he had held my head? They

were covered in blood.

And yet, he had misused his power to lock me in a gilded cage in his house. Albeit it was a huge room, about the size of my apartment with greys walls, a huge bed and a bathroom the size of my room- it was just that. A fancy cage.

The windows were at a height, probably the first floor, but there were guards stationed right below it that wouldn’t move. They hadn’t since the four hours I had been there.

My stomach rumbled, and even though I shivered partly from the cold and partly from fear, I refused to get into the bed or the comfort of the blanket.

I fell asleep-hugging my knees on the floor.

When my eyes opened again, there was no light seeping in from the windows. It was still

the middle of it

The door to my room was still locked from outside it secuned, and no one had interrupted my sleep or offered me food.

Or so I thought, until I saw a silhouette sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at me in the dim light.

“Oh my, God, I shrieked, clutching my chest

tiny, you can make a lot of noise. He commented,

bed. He was still in clothes

not to when you wouldn’t

face him. “I- I have been silent for

a safe six feet distance from me. I figured

My lips part.

if I

your body, didn’t

that he was psychotic enough to kill an innocent

focusing on it,

you hurt your head?” He deadpanned, his arms crossed in front of his chest. “You stuck your nose where it

am I here?” I try sounding unfazed which was not.

Chapter 93

of his lips turning up. “Whatever I please, cupcake, that is your punishment.

me, and I would never show up.

indulged,

outside! I have people and- and I

He licks his lips as if thoroughly amused. “You just did disappear, like you never existed. And what life are you talking about? You’re a baker with no

proper sentence without stuttering. The man in front of me was intimidating, and that didn’t even begin to cover up what a psychotic devil he was. “How

you under my

and I have dreams and I had a plan, and you can’t.” my voice breaks into

take it away from you. You gave it away

I whisper, sounding as broken as

it’s not like you have somebody out there

though I knew he was correct. Everyone who would’ve missed my vile life was dead except Jenny, but I couldn’t tell him that. I couldn’t tell him because if there was a chance he was involved in Alina’s death, it would take him an hour to wipe out the last living member

have someone who would miss me, I

c*ks an

I blurt out before I

“I see.

“You see?”