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 propose

again.

some more “Have you ever thought about name?

much do you think I daydreamed of having a family to deade names of hads I don’t have? I

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a feeling you dready have to

at my wife’s face to know how profusely

want to mare our son after a water

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my shoulders. “Just selfish.” And then I pull her back to me. There’s only so

fucking kryptonite,

it’s a girl?” I ask

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

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

her head to look at me

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

don’t know,” she mumbles, checks heating up suddenly. “Soon, maybe? Maybe we could travel

I drawl. “We never had a honeymoon

of?” she feigns

many positions to fuck

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

man do when he has such a sexy wife?” I kiss

daze

do more, baby,” I remind her

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

still have

whimpers,

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

mine and I liked showing that

hard at the mere touch of her, and right now when she was looking at me with those please fuck–me eyes? Rock fucking hard.

doctor gave me an

asked you to

She says, sounding excited.

stop saying

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hands trailing down

“Mia‘ I warn

she pleads. “One

laughter bubbling through

over.” I joked, “She

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

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know how you

getting on her nerves. “You’ve gotten too comfortable with

I know

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

smirk as the memory plays in my mind. “That’s why you wanted me to fuck you in our balcony. My wife’s

“Alex”

little more. “Suddenly shy to talk

get my period last week.

I straighten up. “You were sick and on medicines. It could mean

mean…” Her voice trails.

on the

“I know.”

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

“It’s so soon.”

“And if you are and you don’t want it right now, I’ll support you in whatever you

“I don’t want to give up on our baby just because I might not be ready,” she

tell her. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I’m going to ask Dom to go to the pharmacy and get us

nods, smiling

idiot ten minutes to go to the store, and he then walked into our room to empty a bag of eight different ones. “There were so many. I got one of each He shrugged, and then

lip wobbled when she took all the tests inside, and that

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do things picker today?

wife came out and sat on

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me with emotions I couldn’t read. Was she happy? Was

idiot to buy the most expensive one. Bet that would have given

the room

was going to be okay.

take her hands in mine. “I’m just restless because I don’t like