His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 118

[MIA]

“No!” The words fling out of my mouth before I can catch them. I blink, unsure if I even heard the insane man in front of me correctly.

He’ll marry me. “You’ll marry me?” I mocked, “Nol”

His eyes twitch. “The only way I cannot marry Hannah is, well, if I’m already married to someone else.”

“So you want me to be your fake wife?!”

“No. What the hell is a fake wife?” He had the audacity to sound offended by my opinion

marriage. “I am going to marry you. For real.”

As if I was the one who casually suggested

“And I get no say in it?!” I demanded.

“Of course you get a say.” His stance softens considerably. “Which designer should design your wedding dress? Ellie Saab? Wang?”

My lips open, and they close again before I angrily hiss, “That’s all the opinion I get?”

“You can decide the colour scheme of the flowers?” He offers oh–so–much. “And the witnesses.”

I stare at the insufferable man. “Alex, we’ve been on one date. One. I am not marrying you.”

“That is one thing you’re not going to have an opinion on.”

“Good luck forcing my corpse down the aisle because there’s no way I’m going to walk down alive.”

His eyes darkened. “We’ll see about that.”

“We are seeing about that,” I huff. “I told you everything you wanted to know since the day I met you. Now, I’m going to walk through those doors and go home. If you want to stop me, drive a bullet through my head.”

Alex rolls his eyes.

He. Rolled. His. Eyes.

“No need for dramatics.”

wasn’t getting put out anytime soon, taking a step away to walk out just like I had promised

make me take drastic measures, Mia,” he

you’ll

no suggestion there. It

“In your dreams.”

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aisle and say those vows, and it’s going to happen sooner than you think. Whether you want to do it with a smile on your lips or screaming and crying

a family, okay? I didn’t have parents or anyone. I dreamt of this all my

there to ruin

boyfriend and the perfect

breaks. “I dreamt of making the family

your dream wedding and I’ll make it happen. Describe

tears spilling

Another. “If children is what you want, we will have

part in surprise. “In this world?!” I ridiculed, “You want to bring children in your world? You were attacked in your own house, Alex! We couldn’t step out for a date without hundred of your men armed with enough weaponry to wage a war. You want to

world?”

make you happy. If

inhale and then lick my lips before shaking my head. He just doesn’t understand. “Your life is dangerous, and exhausting. What would make me happy is not being

a part of my life would

for sometime over a month, bordering to a month and a half, but he had inscribed himself in the deepest parts of me, made me feel things nobody ever has. Would I be happy by removing myself out of his life?

he nonchalantly replied. My lips fall apart again. “I will protect you

what about love,

“What about it?”

ever

passes. And then another. A part of me hoped he would agree to what I had asked for just like he had when I said I wanted children. But no reply comes,

wanted to scoff under my breath, but I find myself captivated by his scrutinising

married soon,”