His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 94

[ALEX]

While I usually valued Dominic’s opinions, today, they annoyed me..

“You need to take a decision about the prisoner girl. Sir,” he reminded me. For some reason, Dom held an absolute distaste towards her to the po

where he refused for even call her by her name. She was just prisoner girl. “It’s been a week she’s

here.”

A week. She had been here for a week..

While I was supposed to visit her like I had the first night, I couldn’t bring myself to.

“I can’t take a decision about her till the PI finds out more about her boyfriend,” I grit my teeth, trying my best to keep the venom out of my voice.

“Sir, he has scanned her file thrice. There is no trace of any boyfriend. He even followed past links and they were all dead ends.

I clenched my teeth. “She had no reason to lie to me. For all we know, this boyfriend is the one who sent her to spy.”

Anger had been running its course for a week inside me, growing like a poisonous ivy. Every day, I made up my mind to a see if she was alive. Every day, I couldn’t. Looking at her face reminded me of the man she was protecting, the lover 1 couldn’t find, and it stung.

I wasn’t incapable. If he was a mundane man, there was no corner of the world he could hide where I wouldn’t find him and obliterate him from existence.

Unless, either he didn’t exist. Or, he isn’t just somebody. He is powerful enough to cover his tracks, and probably powerful enough to come for her.

out my second-in-command’s voice altogether, “What

situations like these, is that you alert the

do you think would happen if I

no hesitation. “That is the punishment

“I thought you

innocent,” he reminded

sent her to spy, she is the only link to him

doesn’t reply,

the news of her presence wouldn’t leave this

again.

her you were busy as you had

I nod

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Tue, Jun 11

Chapter 94

“She mentioned she would show up at your house if you didn’t call her

had been forcing upon myself suddenly made. “I am going upstairs;

shows up?”

she

was filled with sunlight peaking from the windows, and she stared out, her back facing

had asked someone to fill in the wardrobe with clothes of her size but she was in the

ago.

it, Lana?” She asked without turning back her voice

take meals to her

then when the voices from her room

is, I replied and she flinched before

her voice