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.”

I told you?”

much more easy going and a way better company than his older brother, especially to talk.

if trueing that quote ‘think of the devil and the devil appears‘, I had

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going on here?” Alex mused, eyes flickering from his

as I take in his rolled up white shirt. Those hands. They were going to be the

her favourite Whitlock,” Ronan replied, a smug smile

of Alex’s brow raised, his eyes

I lean forward on the counter. “My favourite Whitlock happens to be Sofia.

all seriously. “Did

ears perked, and he walked in. “You were flirting with

that thing! told you about how I

roll my eyes

a lunch and isn’t here yet.” The nervous smile still gracing Ronan’s face, he strides off,

head with a laugh before

“So?” He asked.

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

flirting with

he was flirting with me,” I chuckle under my

“And?”

have zero affect on him at all. One of his hands grabs the counter in the direction that I was going, blocking my

other hand wraps on the back of my

breath freezes at

Alex doesn’t kiss.

had had sex, but there

don’t share,” he

my lower lip. “Alex,

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Hohale. “You’re impossible… caveman.”

“Mine.” he reminds me.

if it

“Good.”

me,” I

in his eyes, and his hand retreats. “Do

say yes. Damn it. Missed opportunity. “I meant, it was

“I’ve never kissed.”

where I thought they would