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.”

love you.” She takes an exasperated breath, looking so done

可

“I can give you status, money, power. And I’d say I’m not bad

somebody else,” she plainly

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into my house last night wanting to share a girl with me and encouraging

had little to do with the fact that I told her I was f** someone else. She blinks, covering up the emotions like the perfect robot she was raised to be. “This girl,” she comments, “She’s

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

She looked freshly bathed, her hair semi dried, but

Mia closely, who springs up

accusatory glance fell upon me, and she crossed her hands

she was all

“Work,” I replied.

you everything.” She instructed me, and I blink slowly, taking my place on the couch. I don’t

was going to die

name was Alina. She and her 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 voice. “She wasn’t even supposed to be there. She had shifted out, and she was just- she was just visiting.

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

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

responsible for it and

“Okay.”

eye contact for the first time since morning. I hated the tears glistening in them and only Xander will pay for each one. “So-

shook my head. “I am hearing her

name. It doesn’t ring any bells?” I hated how her voice was full of hope, as were

I shook my head..

She confirmed one last

a liar, and I was playing you all

into her

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should I tell you the truth if

gets up. “I told

“No.”

King.” She