His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 130

[ALEX]

As much as I hated that my parents had to be in the centre of the world I strived to protect them from, my mother

had been a Godsend for the next week.

My wife refused to speak to anybody except her.

It was a week before Mia was sent home, and the only person she let into her bubble was my mother and occasionally Lana.

Not me. Never me.

I didn’t miss the way her body visibly shuddered the day I got her back to my house. She didn’t look at me once, not the entire drive back and it killed me. Her eyes turned misty every time I tried visiting, so I had to wait until her pain killers knocked her out to sit next to her.

I think my father wanted to give me a lot of s**t, but seeing my condition stopped him from doing that. Even Aurora called and asked about Mia even though I knew it pained every bone in her body to not tell me she would hate me forever for getting married without inviting her.

I stood outside Mia’s room the evening we brought her, even the increased security and absurd number of guards/ soldiers not seeming enough.

My mother was inside, wishing her goodnight. The most annoying part about all this had been that my mom refused to tell me anything they talked about- just assuring me she wouldn’t talk about what happened in the hours she was taken, and I partially considered flying my sister in. At least she would let me in on the girls time.

Not to forget, Dominic was in a COMA, He had severe injuries to his head and a gun shot wound, making him lose blood and he slipped into shock and then coma. The two people who actually knew what happened in there and could tell me, wouldn’t. The audacity of that fucker to still not get up. It wrecked me to not know what they did to my wife, what she went through, especially since she wouldn’t talk about it. Not to me, my mother or even the therapist I forced to sit opposite her for an hour every day.

Sometimes she just stared at the therapist. Once, she actually fell asleep.

My stubborn wife.

father quipped, and

balls on a

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inside with your wife. You know, the one you

was coming any time now that Mia

Alex.” My father looked at me pointedly. “Your mother burst into tears wondering if we had let you get away too far by letting you always follow your mind. She questioned if

mother.”

some air out of my mouth. “You guys are the best parents in the world, alright?” I

mother tends

punk.”

sorry,” I say in a small voice. “Like I told you before, everything

He glared at

I stay silent.

marriage, it would be your last living day.” His voice raises considerably and

told, you forced Mom into a marriage too. In fact, you made her sign a contract.”

dad’s eyes narrow.

it matter?” I smugly

feigning a glare at me. I loved watching the ever-so put together Gabriel Whitlock squirm. This was fun. “I didn’t force her, and we did fall

what I hear, you weren’t even there when I

trails when my Mom

she tells me before turning to her husband.

son was just explaining the circumstances under which he had to get married. Turns out, it’s not his fault that we weren’t invited. It really did happen fast.” My dad accepts begrudgingly, and I try

just emotionally