His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 103

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I didn’t see Alex after that night for the next two days. He wasn’t at the house at all, not even for dinner. I tried not looking so disappointed by that, and must’ve not been doing a good job because Lana had frowned and told me he does go away for business for days sometimes.

That worried me more. His business usually involved guns and bloodshed.

had to control myself because he was my abductor. He was forcing me to stay here and us getting physical? That was just convenience. It was my s t u p d attraction to his looks and his lifestyle, not him. Worry had no place here, especially not if one day I was going to escape this place and never look back. Hopefully.

In the two days that passed, I had chalked out what could be his room at the end of the same hallway as me, because when I ‘wandered’ there, Lana had sneered and asked me to stay away.

I also found the library and turns out I was allowed there all along, because it contained only books- fiction and non-fiction. Nothing about the case files

or the fire.

I still hadn’t been able to locate Alex’s library, if there even was one.

On the third day, when I was brought down for lunch, Alex was downstairs, lounging on the couch, an iPad in his hand.

“Y-You’re here,” I couldn’t hide the surprise in my voice.

That got him to look up and at me, his trademark smirk finding its way on his face. “Missed me, cupcake?”

“No.” I cross my hands in front of my chest. “It’s just that you’re my only interaction in a day. Lana is… robotic.” I could sense the lady frown at me. “And Greg was on a leave since you weren’t here.”

“Greg?” His eyebrows c o c k up. “Who the f u c k is that?”

“Your chef?” I give him an obvious look.

He didn’t look like it rang any bells.

Your head chef?

why do you know so much about my

bake in the

talk about?”

his daughter, you know.” My voice turns more and more into a

are forbidden from talking

“Huh?”

He quipped, “I said,

hung. “You- you can’t

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tell you on your first day here? Who does

protesting, “But you don’t

your friends to be alive, stop making unauthorised friends.

at him, his words striking a nerve. Him killing my friends. His possible involvement in Alina’s death consumes me, and the sudden shame of sleeping with him overcomes. I slept with my

a friend?” His voice snaps me out of my thoughts, and I notice I didn’t

sniff, drinking away my

up, watching me

you murdered my best friend. “Because

“You what now?”

There’s only so many books I can read or TV shows I can watch. I- I want to walk on grass and feel the fresh air.

“Okay.”

“Okay?”

you’re saying is understandable. I

“You-

instead, he looks at Lana. “Ask Dom to clear

glares at her,

in front of me. “You’re really taking

the garden. Don’t get too

“I-Why?”