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

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to me. There’s only so much time I could spend without

kryptonite, my

it it’s a girl?”

name her,” She tells me. “But, I want to

because if I leave it to you, you’ll name her Lake

moves her head to look at me pointedly. “Let’s hear your options.”

with something nice when the time comes. A little smile grazes my lips when I look at her with a cocked eyebrow.

“What?”

you want a baby?”

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

drawl. “We never had a honeymoon anyway.”

think of?” she feigns a

positions to

swatting my arm playfully. “Such

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

blinks, a little daze spreading over her expressions.

more, baby,” I

it’s been a week!” She whines,

You still have a fever.”

wife whimpers, pouting.

it grew only hundredfold since she became my wife and our marriage became real in the truest sense. I

was all mine and I liked showing that to

head of its own. It got hard at the mere touch of her, and right now when she was

gave me an all–clear

also asked you to

She says,

Christ, stop saying

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trailing down my shirt. Does it

“Mia‘ I warn

pleads. “One

laughter bubbling through me

ago could over.” I joked, “She was such a prude.”

for calling me

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sure you can stay away?” I cock an eyebrow, “Do you know how you get the week before your period? Alex, fuck- me–here. Alex,

comfortable with me,” she continues glaring. “You shouldn’t know that

wife. I know everything.” I grin.

okay?” She rolls her eyes. “Maybe it’s the week before my period again.”

the memory plays in my mind. “That’s

“Alex”

more. “Suddenly shy

trails. “I.. I didn’t get my period

up. “You were sick and on medicines. It could

mean…” Her voice

on the shot.”

“I know.”

features. “Hey,” I hold her hand in mine. “If you are

“It’s so soon.”

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

want to give up on our baby just because I might not be ready,” she mumbles. “Is it

ahead of ourselves. I’m going to ask Dom to

nods, smiling

bag of eight different ones. “There were so many. I got one of each He shrugged, and then

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

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came out and sat on

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me with emotions I couldn’t read. Was she happy? Was she sad? “I’ve dipped the stick.

one. Bet that would have given us a result

the room

was going to be

will be okay, my love.” I kneel in front of her and take her hands in mine. “I’m