His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Two weeks later
Life was normal again, but somewhere along the way… normal became boring
bakery and
Surprise hit me when I found out Alex had been secretly paying the rent for my
ment since the past five months, just to give me my sense of cided to get back to it.
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Baking didn’t bring me happiness anymore.
Alex had gone as far as appointing a chef in my bakery so that my orders were fulfilled
I baked too much in the past weeks to forget about my estranged husband as if cupcakes could fill the hole he had left.
Divorce.
I was the one who had wanted it since we tied the knot, so why did the word hurt me so much?
“Mia, you know I don’t eat sugar right?” Dominic grunted. “I’m distributing your cupcakes to the hospital staff.”
“Someone eats them,” I sigh, looking around his hospital room.
“He’s not here.” Dominic nonchalantly adds.
I blink. “I wasn’t looking for Alex.”
“I never mentioned Alex.”
“Right,” I scoff, “As if I have another ‘he’ in my life.”
“If you miss him, just pickup the phone and call him,” he suggests.
“After he basically shoved me out of his house after dropping the divorce bomb and asked me to not give him a reply right now and take my time with it? No thanks.” I scoffed. “What does he think of himself any way? He literally apologised for taking my choice away, and then dropped the divorce word. That’s a choice he
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You’re kinda my best-friend these days. I quipped. “We’re trauma bonded
“This doesn’t even scratch the surface of my trauma, and I would like it on record that your company has been forced on me by yourself. I don’t want Sir to put me back into a COMA after he finds out you’re spending time with me”
I sigh. “He really doesn’t know I’ve been here every day?”
“Nope.” Dominic shakes his head. “And I would appreciate if you stop trying to grab his attention like this. My recovery is being dampened by your presence.”
I ignore his comment, and a grin spreads on his lips. “Grabbing his attention.” My smile reaches my ears, “That’s right, that’s exactly what I need to do for him to contact me first!”
“That is not what I meant.” Dominic emphasis on not.
“You’re the best.” I wish him a speedy recovery and jump out of the room before ! could give into his grumpy protests.
Alina dragged me into nightclubs. A lot of them.
But I hadn’t been to one in more than a year. I had forgotten how incredibly crowded they can be, and how much the scent of alcohol and sweat lingers in the air. Not to forget, drunk young adults stumbling here and there getting high in different corners.
I eye Stephen who had followed me into the club keenly.
Alex really thought he was slick, between Stephen trailing me 24/7 in an undercover getup and a black SUV parked outside my apartment all the time.
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them.
My hearted burned, but this is what he gets. That man had the audacity to take my choice away while making me his, making me fall completely in love with him and then giving me up like it was the easiest decision he made. He calls that a f**g choice?
I had been sleeping alone for the past two weeks crying tears thinking about calling him like this was my first break-up, while he was out doing mafia things. B**s*s mafia things. And I know that because Dom told me had been out of town the first week.
1 swayed to the music, letting myself loose catching Stephen shake his head to himself multiple times as he grumpily stood at the end of the dance floor, not taking his eyes off me.
Real subtle.
“Hey, gorgeous,” A man’s breath fell onto my ears, his hand snaking around my waist. “You looking for a good time?”
“No thanks,” I scowled, immediately pushing him away.
“Come on,” he insists, bringing out a joint. “It’s OC. Top quality.”
“I said,” I screamed over the music, “F**k off, d**khead, NO!”
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