His Wife (A Contract Marriage Story) by Heer Mangtani

Chapter 141

[ALEX]

Few months later:

“You don’t have to check her pulse every few minutes.” Dominic comments.

“Still don’t pay you for your two cents,” I grunt back, not taking my hand off my wife’s wrist.

I could feel her heart beating even though her eyes were closed.

One. Two. Three. Four. Stable. Steady.

“You’re too much.” My second–in–command looks like he wants to roll his eyes, but doesn’t. He knew better, which meant he didn’t want to end up in the same hospital he had to go through months of physical therapy to leave.

“Why’re you still here again?”

Dominic frowns. “I’ll be outside. Call if you need anything.” I nod. “Oh, and boss?” He adds, “Nice new house.”

It wasn’t a house, it was a home.

My and my wife’s home.

She stirs, her skin still warm under my touch. “Alex?” She calls softly, blinking.

“Right here, baby,” I mutter.

She blinks, a small smile spreading on her lips. “I feel better. You can let go of my hand.”

“Never,” I smile back at her, bringing her knuckles to my lips to place a soft kiss there. “And better how? You’re still burning up.”

“I feel stronger,” she grumps and gets up on the bed despite my protest. “Have you gotten any sleep?”

“If I go to sleep, who checks that you’re breathing.”

“I’m breathing,” she softly replies, gripping my hand tighter. “I’m not going to die on you.”

“You don’t know that,” I scoff, huffing some air out of my mouth as I snuggle close to her. She puts her hands around with a smile on her lips as I place my ears on her heart, listening to it beat.

That’s when I can close my eyes for a moment.

me

It all started last week, when we came back to the city from a few blissful months in Philadelphia for my parents anniversary party. The day after that, Mia developed a fever.

Even though I insisted we show a doctor, she chalked it off as overexertion and I let her rest.

Except when I tried waking her up the next morning, she wouldn’t wake up. She was burning in my arms and her breathing was shallow. I couldn’t find a pulse on her.

I stopped breathing in that moment.

The six minutes from our home to the emergency room in the hospital were the hardest six minutes of my life, and I was immediately transported to the time when she was in the ICU and I helplessly stood outside.

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Turns out, she was severe delicated and had an infection. The doctors wanted to be sure it wasn’t a delayed complication from the stitches or the surgery she had after she was kidnapper

After she was cleared from those possibilities, and IV drip with saline and then antibiotics and two extra days of staying in the hospital just because I could force them to keep her there late, we got discharged last evening

Last night was our first night back here, and I couldn’t sleep. I had to make sure my wife was breathing, and her heart was beating

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whatever infection I hav

Id say away from me, just as a precaupon?” She softly tells me. “I don’t want you to contract

“K’s just a viral” I are her. In virkness and in health, remer

“Okay, husband” A light chuckle reverberates through her, and could bear it in my ears that were still pressed to her heart.

My favourite sound

Alex

“How many kadh do you want?

“How many ever you want, baby

Shea, and I sigh, geng up fees are to her to her and pull her into my arms instead

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the? I

laughs again. “No”

laughs some more “Have you ever thought about

having a family

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do I have a feeling you dready have

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her back to me.

kryptonite, my

it’s a girl?” I

tells me. “But, I want to decide her middle

princess or something, because if I leave it to you, you’ll name her Lake or Pond.” I

at me pointedly. “Let’s hear your

time comes. A little smile grazes my lips when

“What?”

want a

checks heating up suddenly. “Soon, maybe? Maybe we could travel somewhere before

drawl. “We never

of?” she feigns a glare,

positions to fuck in.”

chuckles before swatting my arm playfully. “Such a one track mind.”

when he has such a sexy wife?” I kiss her forehead, and then

daze

do more, baby,” I remind her gently, “You’re

been a week!” She whines, “And I’m all better today,”

still have

wife whimpers, pouting.

for her. For me? It was a million times harder. I was obsessed with her since the day I saw her, and it grew only hundredfold since she became my wife and our marriage became real in the truest sense. I was addicted to her voice, to her laughter, her touches, her

was all mine and I liked showing that to her every time I

head of its own. It got hard at the mere touch

doctor gave me an

also asked you to

She says,

stop saying fuck

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She blinks innocently, her hands trailing down my

“Mia‘ I warn

pleads. “One

my head back, laughter bubbling through me at her demand. She

over.”

at me, “And just for calling me that, I won’t let you

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you sure you can stay away?” I cock an eyebrow, “Do you know

on her nerves. “You’ve gotten too comfortable with me,”

my wife. I know

her eyes. “Maybe it’s the week before my period

before we flew in,” I remind her. “Oh yeah,” I smirk as the memory

“Alex”

tease a little more. “Suddenly shy to talk about

period last week.

sick and

could mean…” Her voice trails.

on the shot.”

“I know.”

and confusion all over her features. “Hey,” I hold her hand in mine. “If you are pregnant, that’s okay. And

“It’s so soon.”

I tell her. “And if you are and you don’t

I might not be ready,” she mumbles. “Is it too soon to

won’t know till we take one,” I tell her. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I’m going to ask Dom to go to the pharmacy and get us a kit?

nods, smiling

room to empty a bag

lip wobbled when she took all the tests inside,

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on the bed with a thump.

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Was she

most expensive one. Bet that would have given us a result

the room

it was going to be okay. Why are you

in front of her and take her hands in mine. “I’m just restless because