His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 108

[MIA]

Alex didn’t have to work a day of his life for his good looks. His father didn’t even look like his father, he could easily pass as his elder brother.

Alex was an identical copy of his father- his height, body, face, hair, everything except for his eyes. His entire family had brown eyes except for

him.

And, his parents were normal people.

They didn’t glare, they didn’t look murderous, they weren’t arrogant and they certainly didn’t walk like everyone else was just dust beneath

their shoes. Unlike a certain someone, who had a manufacturing defect it seemed, because he turned out nothing like his family.

“Oh no, Mia, call me Sofia,” Alex’s mother told me when I called her Mrs. Whitlock, after they called me in and asked me to sit in the living

room where they were all settled previously.

“Sofia,” I smile at her, “Thank you.”

“So, who are you?” Aurora eyes me, Gabriel’s twin. They were fraternal, and looked so different but when she gave me that suspicious look, I

could swear I saw exactly how related they were.

“Mia?” I offer.

“She’s a colleagues sister,” Gabriel lies effortlessly, not even blinking. “He asked me to take care of her for a few days till he’s… busy.”

“Hm,” Aurora frowns, not buying her brother’s lie.

“So, Mia, what do you do?” Alex’s father asked.

am a baker,” I reply in

“I loved baking too, when I

even stories about how Alex was so jealous Ronan was

e and

midnight when the stories and laughs ended, and the older Whitlocks ushered us to sleep since Gabriel had a meeting

morning.

room for you?”

too much trouble?” Ever since Sofia found out I grew up without parents, she had taken an extra liking towards

father’s eyes had softened.

“Of course it isn’t.”

guest room’s

“Huh?” Sofia asked, confused.

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stuff remember? And the third one, Ronan turned

burden. I had been thrown out of foster homes for being an

“I’ll prep Ronan’s

brother that had come up in conversation

glared at

a smug smile. “He’s partying. He’s going to most likely not even make it home. And I’ll leave him a text to pass out in the guest room if he does end

“No.” Alex refuses.

retorts. “I would have offered for her to stay with me but I have work to do and I’m going to be up till like 3 AM,

“I- I can manage anywhere, I’ll be okay,

with me,” Alex

“She will?” Aurora smirked.

widened.

amused smiles, wishing

an eye on her till her brother’s busy, don’t I?” Alex offers. “How can I do that if she’s not where I

such danger to Mia,” Aurora muses, her smirk

glares back till Alex sighs and shakes his head and

so keep down the noises, if

I think I turn as

that,” I