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

shone. “I loved baking too,

Sofia loved to bake before how troublesome the twins were as toddlers. There were even stories about how Alex was so jealous Ronan was going to be born that

e and

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

morning.

should I prep the guest room for you?” Sofia asks me affectionately, and I smile at

it’s not too much trouble?” Ever since Sofia found out I grew up without parents,

father’s eyes had softened.

“Of course it isn’t.”

protested. “The guest room’s AC isn’t working,

“Huh?” Sofia asked, confused.

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“And the other guest room still has Luna’s stuff remember? And the third one, Ronan turned

without AC,” I offered, not wanting to a burden. I had been thrown out of foster homes for being an

dismissed it. “I’ll prep Ronan’s room

twenty–one year old brother that had come up in

at

shrugged with 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

“No.” Alex refuses.

her to stay with me but I have work to do and

flustered. “I- I can manage anywhere, I’ll be

with me,” Alex

“She will?” Aurora smirked.

eyes widened. “I

Whitlocks both exchanged amused smiles, wishing us goodnight and

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

Ronan possesses such danger to Mia,” Aurora muses, her

twin glares at her, and she glares back till Alex sighs and shakes his

she grinned. “Our room is just adjacent, so keep down the noises, if there are going to be

I think I turn

not like that,” I tell