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

Don’t you think wo

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

She don’t resist, ungging deur

My wide lower bis Can’t say I seed it on a b

“Two, maybe “I say “is put much thought into in Whas abone you?

“I want a big family” she cheekily seplies. I never had an… w.

the? I

again. “No”

laughs some more “Have you ever thought about name?

you think I daydreamed of having a family to deade names of hads I don’t

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have a feeling you dready have

have to look at my wife’s face to know how profusely

want to mare our son

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my shoulders. “Just selfish.” And then I pull her back to me. There’s only so much time I could spend without touching

kryptonite, my

girl?”

She tells me. “But,

if I leave

look at

don’t have any. I’m sure I’ll come up with something nice when the time comes. A little smile grazes my lips when I look at her with a cocked eyebrow. “When will

“What?”

want a

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

“We never had a honeymoon anyway.”

she feigns a glare, “So many places

positions to fuck

swatting my arm playfully. “Such

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

blinks, a little daze spreading

more, baby,” I remind her gently,

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

still have a fever.”

whimpers,

chuckle. She was pretending like it was hard 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

all mine and I liked showing that to her every time

at

me an all–clear

also asked you to rest.

me? She says,

stop saying fuck

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her hands trailing down my

“Mia‘ I warn

she pleads. “One

back, laughter bubbling through me at her

could over.” I joked,

calling me that, I won’t let you fuck me for another

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away?” I cock an eyebrow, “Do you know how you get the week before

evidently getting on her nerves. “You’ve gotten too comfortable with me,” she continues glaring. “You

my wife. I know everything.” I

“Maybe it’s the week before

we flew in,” I remind her. “Oh yeah,” I smirk as the memory plays in my mind. “That’s why you wanted me to fuck you in our balcony.

“Alex”

“Suddenly shy to talk about

She trails. “I.. I didn’t get my period last week. I-

were sick and on medicines. It could mean anything.”

mean…” Her

the

“I know.”

at my wife, concern and confusion all over her features. “Hey,” I hold her hand in mine.

“It’s so soon.”

not,” I tell her. “And if you are and you don’t want

don’t want to give up on our baby just because I

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

smiling at

our room to empty a bag of eight different ones. “There were so many. I got one

when she took all the tests inside, and that lady took another

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sat on the bed with

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she happy? Was she sad?

Bet that would have given us

the room

said it was going to be okay. Why are

okay, my love.” I kneel in front of her and take her hands in mine. “I’m just restless because I