His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 117

[ALEX]

A storm raged inside my head, and there was one just one person at the centre of it. Mia Carson. Her st**y enchanting grey eyes and brown locks that had captivated my mind since the moment I first saw her. Every part of me wanted to go to her room and **k that mouth that had spewed accusations at me last night, but the sensible part of me, that part knew by all logic she was entitled to her own hurt and feelings and I needed to let her be.

I credit my mother for feeling all that empathy she had instilled inside somehow when I was a child while all I wanted to do was watch things burn.

And they will.

Xander will pay for making my Mia cry.

Nobody gets away with f**g with me the way he did, and he did it intently. He made my Mia cry.

“Thanks for meeting me,” I say to Hannah with no real gratitude once she gets into my car.

She shakes her head, dismissing my thanks. “Why did you call me?”

“I just felt like seeing my beautiful fiancée.”

She stares at me like I had grown two heads, shifting her weight uncomfortably by crossing her legs. Her skin which was usually caked with layers of make-up was bare, her eyes sunken and her blonde hair braided into messy locks resting on her one shoulder. “What?”

I smile. They’re as fake as they come, but she doesn’t need to know that. “We were set to marry early next year, but… I was thinking we should push the date up. How about… next month?”

“You want to marry me?” Her eyes were wide. “I- I thought you were searching ways to call it off.”

“Changed my mind.”

“B- But why?!”

“Something about what Xander said last night, about how you’re beautiful.” I resist the urge to roll my eyes.

“Xander said that?” Her surprise was audible. “He said you should marry me because I’m beautiful?”

“Something on those lines.”

“That son of a…” She mutters, and then shuts herself up, looking at me. “I don’t want to marry you, Alex.”

I pretend to be hurt. “You’ve wounded me.”

exasperated

可

you status, money, power. And I’d say I’m

else,” she plainly

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house last night wanting

do with the fact that I told her I was f** someone

up for suggesting he could share her. Unless, you give me

to the girl who was sitting on the couch impatiently. She looked freshly bathed, her hair

behind her watching Mia closely, who springs up

and she crossed her hands in

cute when she was

“Work,” I replied.

couch. I don’t miss the way she intentionally puts distance between us and sits across me, or the way she looks

going to die for

pauses, takes a breath to calm the shakiness in her voice. “She wasn’t even supposed to be there. She had shifted out,

my jaw clenched. “So when you heard the me and Bakshi

being around six months ago. Seven now, I should say, since I’ve been here for over a month.”

I thought you could be responsible for it and I wanted to get to the

“Okay.”

since morning. I hated the tears glistening in them and only Xander will pay for each one. “So- So, did you do

“I am hearing her

That’s her last name. It doesn’t ring any bells?” I hated how her voice was full

I shook my head..

you lying?” She confirmed one

I am a liar, and

back into her

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tell you the truth if you don’t

visible when she gets up. “I told you what you wanted to know. Let

“No.”

me. “You can’t keep me captive forever, King.” She