His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 93

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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

girl so tiny, you can make a lot of noise. He commented, seeming grumpier

heard me screaming earlier?” I asked, and the man from earlier stood up from the bed. He was still in clothes from the previous afternoon,

hard not to when you

getting up to face him. “I- I have

a safe six

My lips part.

didn’t send anyone to check?” I asked in return. Obviously he wasn’t going to care if I had been dead, but the fact that he

to dispose off your body, didn’t I?”

I was that he was psychotic enough to kill an innocent family just

focusing on it, “Why am

deadpanned, his arms crossed in front of his chest. “You stuck your nose where it doesn’t belong, cupcake, and now you’re

I- I mean… why am I here?” I try sounding unfazed

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the dim, one corner of his lips turning up. “Whatever I please, cupcake,

Jenny filling in my head. She would keep waiting for me, and I would never show up. She’s

he indulged, “Why can’t

life outside! I have people and-

disappear, like you never existed. And what life are you talking

myself for not being able to form a 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 do

going to keep you under my roof without thoroughly

“I own a bakery, and I work hard and I have dreams and I had a plan, and you can’t.” my voice breaks into a whisper, you can’t take it away

it away when you decided to

as broken as I

have somebody out there who’s going to miss your vile

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

who would miss

c*ks

I blurt out before

“I see.

“You see?”