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.

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

situations like these, is that you alert the

think would happen

showed no hesitation. “That is

I pondered, eyes flickering to him. “I thought you of all people were against spilling innocent

she isn’t innocent,”

sent her to spy, she is the only link to him I commented, “Killing he would

reply, just nods

of her presence wouldn’t leave this house, and wouldn’t reach Uncle Damien. Are

nods again. “And Hammal called

you were busy as you had requested, for the fourth time

I nod

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Chapter 94

up at

decision I had been forcing upon myself suddenly made. “I

shows up?” He

if she

filled with sunlight peaking from the windows, and she stared

with clothes of her size but she was in the same ones that she

ago.

asked without

appointed to take meals to her

and then when

replied and she flinched

her voice