His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 115

MIA]

“This restaurant is… fancy.” I whisper to Alex, looking around. The place was huge, on top of a sixty floor building overlooking the rest of the city. Cream modern wallpapers, glass chandeliers

and cutlery branded with the Versace logo. It was also surprisingly empty.

“Why are you whispering?”

I let that settle in as I lean back in my chair. “Why is the place

empty?”

He sets down the menu he had been reading, c**g an eyebrow as if offended by my question. “You didn’t think I would dine with other people?”

My lips part in a gasp. “You booked the entire place?!”

“Yes,” he casually replied. “I like privacy.”

“This much privacy?”

“What if I feel like bending you over in the middle of dinner and eating you instead?” His lazy smirk I had given my heart to lingers in his lips,

but I cautiously look around to his guards who were standing a mere ten feet away.

“They can hear us!”

“They work forme, not the other way around.”

I frown. “Can’t you like… dismiss them for the night?”

“And what do I do, pray tell, if we are attacked?”

“I thought you’re this bad-a** guy who can take on an army by yourself,” I teased.

“Realistically, I can take on ten men while also protecting you. What if there are like… a hundred of them?”

I gulp. “Someone can send a hundred men to attack you?”

“Someone might,” He sips his wine. “You are greatly underestimating the position I hold in the Mafia, Mia.”

“Why?” I ask, and the waiter interrupts us. We both give our orders, and I order a c**l while Alex enjoys the most expensive bottle of wine

money could buy.

“You were saying?” He asked once the waiter left.

“Yeah, I asked, why?” I repeated. “Why did you choose this life?”

“Why not?”

“It’s dangerous, and exhausting; I can’t imagine what it would be like to not go out by yourself.”

it,” He plainly replied. “That is how my life is, and

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his

buzzes, and he appeared annoyed the moment he checked it, but silenced it and handed it to Dom, who grabs it quickly before walking back to the place he

eat?” I

He nods.

we invite them to

at me like I was a madwoman.

opens and closes. “I don’t like

what he was thinking, he addressed his guards, “Turn your backs

My jaw drops. “Alex!”

looking at us

but

He smiles proudly.

I shake

nerd, the introvert, the loner who liked to play football. He was the popular kid, the trouble maker, the captain of his lacrosse team. For a while, I forget he was in the mafia. He was their brains, their strategist. For a while, he was just Alex and I was just Mia, and everything was

dinner, he takes me on a long drive across the bridge and even

he was driving us home and it was just the two of us. “I mean, you have such a wonderful family. Why’d

is a

“In?”

“Taking a life.”

widen, and he smirks at

like mundane. I wanted more. So, I chose more. I chose thrill. Adventure. Mind games. Strategies. A

“It’s so… dangerous.”

He rolled his eyes, “Yeah, you mentioned

to always look

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to me, Mia. I’m always

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close to my chest and look at

“Mh-hm.”.

have you noticed about me

corner

turned on. Your eyes twitch when you’re lying. Your nose flares when you’re angry and you usually end up with tears in your eyes. Death is a sensitive topic to you. You fluster quite easily whenever you’re embarrassed, which is a lot. Baking isn’t a hobby to you, it’s an escape. You’re not a big music lover, because your choice is mostly mainstream

stop.” I chuckle

only watch rom-coms and I assume you’ve either never had a fulfilling love in your life or one-too-many tragedies. Your favourite colour is black. Very boring, by the way, Mia. You say you didn’t have time to date because you were so busy earning hand-to-mouth, but the fancy

know why I chuckle under my breath even though tears glisten my eyes and

glanced my way. “Observing

under my breath, inhaling deep before facing him again. “I had a friend; her family pitied me at a point and took me in

were wealthy, and that’s how I know proper etiquette. That’s also when my

I wasn’t

in the shadows. Nobody cared for me, nobody bothered to help when I was spiralling into depression or struggling to make ends meet.

I didn’t quite understand myself. “Do you notice everyone

“Some more than others.”

tell him. “Black is a