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.”

takes an exasperated breath, looking

可

Barbie,” I mocked. “I can give you status, money, power. And I’d say

else,” she

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in the unhinged idiot who trodded into my house last night wanting to share a girl with me

I knew that had little to do with the fact that I told her I was f** someone else. She blinks, covering

up for suggesting he could share her.

freshly bathed, her hair semi dried, but her eyes were distant. I don’t think she had gotten much sleep last night or eaten anything from the breakfast I

closely, who springs up on seeing

fell upon me, and she

cute when she was all

“Work,” I replied.

taking my place on the couch. I don’t

Xander was going to die

family died in a fire in their house six months ago because of a faulty fuse.” Mia pauses, takes a breath to calm the shakiness in her

muscle in my jaw clenched. “So when you heard the me and Bakshi talking about

say, since I’ve been here for over a month.” She sniffed. “I

you 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

hearing her name for the first

hated how her voice was full of hope, as

I shook my head..

you lying?” She confirmed

I am a liar, and I

into her seat. “You’re

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should I tell you the truth if you don’t

closes. Her nose flares, anger visible when she gets up. “I told you what you wanted to know.

“No.”

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