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?”

easy going and a way better company than his older brother, especially to talk. He didn’t glare. He didn’t grunt. He didn’t give murderous

quote ‘think of the devil and the devil appears‘, I had just been

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“What’s going on here?” Alex mused, eyes flickering from his younger brother to

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

Whitlock,” Ronan replied, a

raised, his

favourite Whitlock happens to be

team, Mia?” Ronan asked all seriously. “Did I spend

and he walked in. “You were

“You remember that thing! told you about how I

roll my eyes at

The nervous smile still gracing Ronan’s face, he strides off, leaving me alone

laugh before setting the oven, ignoring Alex who walked

“So?” He asked.

dumbly, grabbing all ingredients from the kitchen counter one by one and putting them in

with my

with me,”

“And?”

Alex my pointed eyes, one that have zero affect on him at all. One of his hands grabs the counter in the direction that I was

wraps on the back of my neck, jerking

breath freezes at how close he

Alex doesn’t kiss.

there were no kisses, no hugs,

share,” he

bite my lower lip. “Alex,

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Hohale. “You’re impossible… caveman.”

“Mine.” he reminds me.

life and death,” I repeat if it were a

“Good.”

kissed me,” I

and his hand retreats. “Do you want me

Missed opportunity. “I

“I’ve never kissed.”

to the point where I thought they would pop out.