His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 96

[ALEX]

I was blinded by rage, seeing only red.

In my six years of being a member of the Mafia, I had never been attacked. That was partly why I stayed a silent member- if something happened to me, my parents would bring me back to life just to kill me again.

This was the first time an enemy had managed to get close enough to me to take a shot, and it enraged me that I didn’t even know who sent them. To my own f*cking house.

Sixty three of their men had come, and sixty two were dead. The only alive man? The one who was chasing Mia, and it took every ounce of my restraint to not drive the bullet through his skull for it.

“Sir, you have to agree, the timing is suspicious,” Dominic says while I wash the blood from my hands and face before we enter the interrogating room.

Usually, I would have indulged him, even if I just pretended to. Today, all I saw was red. “I don’t pay you for your opinions, Dom,” I hissed. “I need to know who sent these men. Don’t show me your face till you have information for me.”

He nods stiffly and disappears from my eyes, and I enter into the interrogation room where the man I had shot was strapped down to the chair, and Mia was in the opposite corner.

As soon as she heard my footsteps, she raised her face from between her knees, standing up. “Why- Why am I here?”

“I already told you… so you can watch me kill him.”

“And I already told you, I don’t know who he is. I- He means nothing to me!”

“Then you won’t have any issues seeing him die, right

“Of course I would have an issue, Mr. King!” She cried out, “I am a normal person! This- This isn’t normal.”

“Mr. King?” I c*ck an eyebrow, walking to her. “Tell me you know my name,

Mia.”

She snaps out of whatever anger she was in, blinking as if processing what I had just asked before she shook her head. “I- I don’t.”

“Jesus.” Either she was really innocent, or too good at faking it. “Alex,” I tell her. “It’s Alex.”

“Alex,” she repeats softly.

last time before I kill him. Do you know him in any way?” I ask her. “Is he here for

I notice the huge cut in what she

the venom out because I have seen earlier how much

“What?” She asks, surprised.

“Your back…”

if noticing it for the first time

I didn’t..”

1/3

Wed, Jun 12

Chapter 96

try softening my voice. “Tell me, did he try to

She shakes

“I- I think this must’ve happened when I

“Okay.”

“Okay?” She asks.

turning and shooting

widely staring at the dead

him,”

“Wh- Why?”

me in my own house, and

add, “He tried to attack

I walk towards her like she was the centre of the gravity that kept

did I tell you about yourself?”

my life is yours,” she inhales,

your death?” I

“Y-Yours.”

not smiling, but the ghost of one lingers on my lips any way. “If your life and death is mine, who do you belong

asks in

mine.” I announce, walking close till there was negligible space between us. The urge to touch her, claim her with more than words overfills me, and takes more restraint to

had to drive the bullet through his head the moment I saw his bare

her.

touched what

my hands on the wall on either side of her, caging her in. “Would you have let him touch you, Mia?” Lask, “If

her breath uneven. While it was always out of fear, this

I spit as