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.”

plainly replied. “That is how

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gulp, staring into his eyes across the

moment he checked it, but silenced it and handed it to Dom, who grabs it quickly before walking back to the place he was initially standing

I ask Alex, voice falling into

He nods.

invite them

him look at me like I was a madwoman. “Do I look like

don’t like that they’re going to watch us

smug, and before I could ask him what he was thinking, he

My jaw drops. “Alex!”

They’re not looking at us

but no words

He smiles proudly.

I shake

dinner while chatting, and for a while, I forget about the number of guards around us when I tell him about my high school experience and he about his. I was the 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

long drive across the bridge and

me why you chose this life?” I asked him when he was driving us home and it was just the two of

is a

“In?”

“Taking a life.”

and he smirks at

joking,” he adds for my benefit. “I didn’t like mundane. I wanted more. So, I chose more. I chose thrill. Adventure.

“It’s so… dangerous.”

exhausting,” He rolled his eyes, “Yeah, you mentioned a few

to always look

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second nature to me, Mia.

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arms close to my chest and look at him closely. So humane. So touchable. So

“Mh-hm.”.

noticed about me

corner of his

Your nose flares when you’re angry and you usually end up with tears in your eyes. Death is a

I

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 restaurant dishes didn’t intimate you. You knew

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

my way.

“I had a

time. They were wealthy, and that’s how I know proper

I wasn’t sure if

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

I didn’t

“Some more than others.”

blue,” I tell him.