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

status, money, power.

somebody else,” she

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unhinged idiot who trodded into my house last

fact that I told her I was f** someone else. She blinks,

established. “And I’m going to blow your Ken up for suggesting he could share her. Unless, you give

She looked freshly bathed, her hair semi dried, but her eyes were distant. I don’t think she had gotten

closely, who springs up

you?” Her accusatory glance fell upon me, and she crossed her hands

was cute when she was all

“Work,” I replied.

and I blink slowly, taking my place on the couch. I don’t miss the way she intentionally puts distance between us and sits across me, or the way she

Xander was going to

a breath to calm the shakiness in her voice. “She wasn’t even supposed

when you heard the me and

it being around six months ago. Seven now, I should say, since

could be responsible for it and I wanted to get to

“Okay.”

time since morning. I hated the tears glistening in them and only Xander will pay

my head. “I am hearing her name for

doesn’t ring any bells?” I hated how her voice was full

I shook my head..

you lying?” She confirmed one last

a liar, and I was playing you all

back into her seat. “You’re

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the truth

and then closes. Her nose flares, anger visible when she gets

“No.”

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