His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 111

[MIA]

“So, Mia, how’d you get into baking?”

“It’s a simple hobby,” I raise my shoulders in a shrug, adding too much sugar into the mix as I was instructed. “And I needed something to keep me busy.”

“That’s it?” Ronan cocks an unimpressed eyebrow. “No touching story about how your mom passed on her secret recipes to you before she took her last breath?”

I laughed. “Not many touching stories to go around when you don’t have a Mom.”

“Ah.” He clicked his tongue, offering no sympathies.

“What do you do?” I ask him, “Except be a hellion and get on your brother’s nerves.”

“I love how you’ve gotten to know me oh–so–much in an hour of knowing me,” he whips the cake mix, “And getting on my brother’s nerves is my birth right. I am the only man he wouldn’t kill.”

I shrug. “Not hearing a real hobby in there, Ronan.”

“I party.”

“Still not a hobby.”

“You sound like my sister,” he scrunches his nose. “And I don’t willingly consider hot girls my sister.”

“I’m hot?” I cock an eyebrow. “Because I do remember you saying about five minutes ago that I look like a grandmother when I get too. protective about my recipes.”

“Only when you get too protective about your recipes.” He smugly smiles.

“Too old for you, Ron.”

“Four years,” he nonchalantly muses while passing the cake mix to me, “Besides, I like old.”

“You’re barely an adult,” I chuckle under my breath.

“Hey! I’m twenty–one.”

“Not with the way you’re whining, you’re not.” I laugh louder. “And making an extremely sweet cake just to see your brother’s reaction? Not

very mature.”

you?”

way better company than his older brother, especially to talk. He didn’t glare. He didn’t grunt.

devil appears‘, I had just been thinking of him and he

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on here?” Alex mused, eyes flickering

no words come out as I take in his rolled up white shirt. Those hands. They were going to be the death of me. Flashbacks

her favourite Whitlock,” Ronan replied, a smug smile challenging his

Alex’s brow raised, his eyes finding

favourite

seriously. “Did I spend all

and he walked in. “You were flirting with

remember that thing! told you about how

my eyes at

isn’t here yet.” The nervous smile still gracing Ronan’s face, he strides off, leaving me alone with his

shake my head with a laugh before setting the oven, ignoring Alex

“So?” He asked.

I repeat, dumbly, grabbing all ingredients from the kitchen counter one by one and putting

flirting with my

with me,” I chuckle

“And?”

have zero affect on him at all. One of his hands grabs

wraps on the back of my neck, jerking me closer

at how close he

Alex doesn’t kiss.

had had sex, but there were no kisses,

share,” he

bite my lower lip. “Alex, he’s

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Hohale. “You’re impossible… caveman.”

“Mine.” he reminds me.

and death,” I repeat if it

“Good.”

kissed me,”

and his hand retreats. “Do you want

opportunity. “I

“I’ve never kissed.”

to the point where I thought they would pop out. “You’ve never had a first