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.”

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

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gulp, staring into his eyes across

checked it, but silenced it and handed it to Dom, who grabs it quickly before walking back to

us eat?” I ask Alex, voice falling

He nods.

them to eat

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

like that they’re going to watch

he was thinking, he addressed his guards, “Turn your backs to us. Every

My jaw drops. “Alex!”

They’re not looking at us

but no words

He smiles proudly.

I shake

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

drive across the bridge and even

never told me why you chose this life?” I asked him when he was driving us home and it was just the two of us. “I mean, you

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. Mind games. Strategies. A world with no morals? I signed myself

“It’s so… dangerous.”

eyes, “Yeah, you

always look over your

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Mia. I’m

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to my chest and look at him closely.

“Mh-hm.”.

you noticed

one corner of

up with tears in your eyes. Death

I

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,

don’t know why I chuckle under my breath even though tears glisten my eyes and I

my

him again. “I had a friend; her family pitied me

wealthy, and that’s how I know proper etiquette. That’s

buzzes in response, and I wasn’t sure if he

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 guy was.

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

“Some more than others.”

I tell him. “Black is a close