His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 110

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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

and was fast

whose number I had taken for emergencies, praying she picks up

“Hello?”

June, is that you?” I say,

sounded confused,

“Yes! Yes! Thank God.”

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

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. I also add to not let Jenny call back on the

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an eye out, I immediately searched for any news of fires six months ago in my city, and there were 3 in

her parents, leaving only Jenny behind. There were two others, one in a restaurant killing one and injuring six, and the

There were three.

if Alex 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 him being

he had a public profile, if people in the normal world knew

had expected, except the link to another girl.

that name seemed so familiar.

article that mentioned their names together, but before it could load, a voice

I jumped in my place, almost dropping the phone as I stared at the

suspicious, pointed eyes. With shaking hands and not taking my eyes off him, I removed the tab from Sofia’s Internet, and deleted the logs just as

I am.” Words barely made it out of

closer, studying me. “All day Alex was desperate to get away

unsure what to answer while I

you going to run away,

“N- No?”

“Because I’m going to teach you exactly how to annoy the living

he throws himself on the couch

He thinks of it as weakness and he

or not but when I realised that he

The best way to annoy him? Put a teaspoon of sugar in his morning

My eyes widen. “He hates