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

taken for emergencies, praying

“Hello?”

Hi! June, is that you?” I

She sounded

“Yes! Yes! Thank God.”

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

keep it early so 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 add to not let Jenny call back on the number l had dialled her from, just for good

Chapter 110

soon as I could disconnect, I did, 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

one in a restaurant killing one and injuring six, and the other there was not too much information about except the area and the owner of

There were three.

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

King. I wondered if he had a public profile, if people in

up just like I had expected, except

and I wondered why that name

the article that mentioned their names together, but before it could

in my place, almost dropping the phone as I stared at the younger version of Alex with lighter brown

must be Mia,” 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

barely made it out of my

me. “All day Alex was desperate to get away from work as if he was afraid

gulp, unsure what to answer while I hide Sofia’s phone

“Are you going to

“N- No?”

on his lips, “Because I’m going to teach you exactly how to annoy the

himself on the couch and indicates me to do

pollen?” He tells 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

I realised that

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

My eyes widen. “He hates