His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 110

[MIA]

Alex was spending the day with his younger brother and father at his dad’s office.

I was home with Sofia, and Aurora who had to finish a meeting over lunch and would be back by evening.

When I was at Alex’s house, I was always watched. There was Lana, who wasn’t loyal to anybody except her master and didn’t break no matter how much I tried to talk to her, I hadn’t befriended her yet.

Alex had long confiscated my phone, and there were no computers lying around. If I did somehow manage to get my hands on an iPad, they were password coded and I had no hacking skills. If I could somehow get in, they were Alex’s. I assumed they were always under surveillance.

I couldn’t exactly google the fires in the last six months around me.

But here, I could.

I felt guilty lying to Sofia, but beggars can’t be choosers. “Sofia?” I called for her when her nose was buried in a book on the couch, and we were lounging together post lunch.

“Yes, sweetheart?”

The guilt weighs in when I hear her endearment, but I shake it off. I wasn’t putting her in any danger of sorts. I was just trying to be a little

sneaky and that was only because her son was forcing me to. “I broke my phone before our flight here. Is it okay if I borrow yours to make a

call?”

Her eyebrows knit. “Sure.”

She grabs her phone, unlocks it, and hands it to me after opening the keypad. The first thing I do is dial Jenny’s number from memory, and

hope I remembered it right.

The phone rings, and nobody picks up for a long time. That is when I remember it was post-lunch, which means she had probably taken her

was fast

had taken for emergencies, praying she

“Hello?”

is that you?” I say, almost hastily.

She sounded

“Yes! Yes! Thank God.”

up at me warily at the way I squealed, and then gets up and leaves the room, probably

I can google. June tells me Jenny is sleeping, and I ask her to let Jenny know I love her and I would come visit her soon, I just ran into an unexpected inconvenience.

Chapter 110

and taking the opportunity of Sofia’s absence, I opened her Internet browser. Keeping an eye out, I immediately searched for any news of fires six months ago in my city,

There were two others, one in a restaurant killing one and injuring

There were three.

wasn’t involved in Alina’s fire, he was in someone else’s, but the rising liking in my heart could deal with him being morally grey. I didn’t know if I could take

wondered if he had a public profile, if people in the normal world knew anything about him because l

came up just like I had expected, except the link to another

why that name seemed so familiar. Was she his

article that mentioned their names together, but

dropping the phone as I stared at the younger version

looking at me with suspicious, pointed eyes. With shaking hands and not taking my eyes off him, I removed the tab

Words barely made it out of my

day Alex was desperate to get away from work

what to answer while I

“Are you going to run

“N- No?”

exactly how to annoy the living hell out of my

the phone aside as he throws himself on the couch and indicates me to do the

Alex is allergic to pollen?” He tells me, “It’s a mild allergy, but he hates it. He thinks of it

not but when I realised that he was, a smile breaks on my lips. “That does

as if it’s poison. The best way to annoy him? Put a teaspoon of sugar in his morning tea. It’ll make

My eyes widen.