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.

a soldier?” My father quipped,

I try not glaring, because Mafia or not, my father can still have my balls on

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for my wife,” he replies, “Who’s currently inside with your wife. You know, the one you married without telling any

should’ve known this was coming any time now that

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.”

huff some air out of my mouth. “You guys are the

that,” he replies with smug confidence, “Your mother tends

punk.”

I say in a small voice. “Like I

wife wouldn’t even look at you,” He glared at me. “Tell me you didn’t drag

I stay silent.

swear to G**d, if you have forced her into this marriage, it would be your last living day.” His voice raises

a marriage too. In fact, you made

narrow. “Who

it matter?” I smugly

me. I loved watching the ever-so put together Gabriel Whitlock squirm. This was fun. “I

there when I and Aurora were born.

when my Mom comes

tells me before turning to her husband.

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 my best to conceal the smirk that wanted to spread on

emotionally blackmail my