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

and was fast

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

“Hello?”

that you?” I say,

sounded confused, “Jenny’s

“Yes! Yes! Thank God.”

me warily at the way I squealed, and then

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. I also

Chapter 110

I opened her Internet browser. Keeping an eye out, I immediately searched for any news

fire that killed Alina and her parents, leaving only Jenny behind. There were two others, one in a restaurant killing one and injuring six, and the other there was not too much information about except the area and the

There were three.

my chest. I knew logically that even 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 the

up next. Alex King. I wondered if he had a public profile, if people in the normal world

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

knit, and I wondered why that name seemed so familiar.

clicked on the article that mentioned their names together, but

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

he was looking at me with 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

am.” Words barely made it out of

desperate to get away

while I hide

eyes narrow. “Are you going to

“N- No?”

A grin cracks on his lips, “Because I’m going to teach you exactly how to

nervously chuckle, keeping the phone aside as he throws himself on the couch and indicates me to do the

me, “It’s a mild allergy, but he hates it. He thinks of it as weakness and he demanded immunotherapy to get rid of it for his fourteenth

Ronan, unsure if he was serious or not but when I realised that he was,

best way to annoy him? Put a teaspoon of sugar in his morning tea. It’ll make him grumpy for the rest of

eyes widen.