The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter

107

I'm not an idiot. Silas hasn't been the swith me. It's been a week since the fight and the explosion that

turned out to be because of a gas leak. Silas checked onfor two days after what happened, then he didn't

call again. Not even once. | asked him numerous times if he wanted to get breakfast, lunch, or dinner with me

and he always had excuses. We don't even get coffee anymore. It's like he's avoidinglike the plague. |

cannot take this anymore and | want him to talk to him. | want him to get whatever is bothering him out of his

system.

"If you really want to talk to him, I think you should make an ambush." | frown at Sabrina's suggestion. How am |

supposed to ambush him? Do | even want to do that? It doesn't seem right. Shouldn't | respect his wish if he

doesn't want to talk to me? "What if he doesn't want to talk, Rina? What am | supposed to do?" | sigh, pulling the

pillow close to me.

"Give it one last try, Rosie. You need to talk to him to put yourself out of your misery," she tells me, but | shake

my head.

"I was at fault. You didn't see the way | talked to him or how his face fell." | just wish | could turn back time.

"We all make mistakes. You apologized and if he doesn't want to forgive you, then that's on him, not you." She

rubs "But Rosie, does that mean that he is more than just a friend to you?"

my

arm.

| have been asking myself the squestion and even though | have been trying to avoid answering it, | think |

can now admit that Silas is more than just a friend to me. | think I'm starting to see him differently.

"He is more than a friend." My eyes water as | say these words out loud for the first time.

"Chere," Sabrina mumbles as she pullsinto a hug. We were supposed to be studying, but what we're

now doing is far from that. "For what it's worth, | think he has the sfeelings for you. | don't think Silas sees

you as a friend and maybe) that's what hurt him the most." Could this be true? Does Silas seeas more than a

friend?

"But !..." I don't even know what | want to say. To be precise, | don't know how to articulate what | want to say. "I

have never thought that he has feelings for me." | frown, looking at her.

"Rosie, you're really smart and a talented designer, but I think when it comes to Silas, your IQ drops to the

deepest point of the ocean," she says, shaking her head. "Do you remember when you went to meet your

parents and his parents and they all said that they expected you two to end up together?" she remindsand |

slowly nod. "Do you think that they're all wrong? | want you to try to remember the way Silas reacted. Was it

normal?"

| think about it for a while, attempting to remember the way he acted. Silas becvery nervous when they

started mentioning how they knew we would end up together. If | remember correctly, Naomi was the one who

tried to help him

out,

Oh my God... Have | been blind?

"I don't know how to talk to him," | tell her, looking down. "I don't even know what I'm supposed to tell him. |

can't just directly ask him if he likes me."

"Don't do that. Just try to get him to talk about what happened. Try to understand from him why he reacted that

way," she tells me. This is a huge step and if Silas ends up admitting his feelings for me, | know that there will be

no going back. I will tell him that | have feelings for him too and we will probably start dating. This idea is so

scary because | have never liked the idea of dating friends. What if it doesn't work? How are we going to act

then?

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"Rosie, you're overthinking." Sabrina takesout of my thoughts. "It's better to try.

my thoughts. "It's better to try. This way, you won't ever blyourself for not trying."

She is right. | need to give this a go even if I'm petrified of the outcome.

"Message him." She handsmy phone. | take my phone from her and send him a text. | don't think we've

reached the stage where he starts ignoring me.

If we had reached that stage, he wouldn't have picked up when | called him after the explosion. When | called

him that day, it didn't even cross my mind that he might not pick up. He was the first person who cto my

mind when the paramedic askedif | wanted to call anyone.

| finish practice at eight today. | can cover once I'm done.' He replies and I sigh in relief. There are still four

hours left.

'Are you going to have dinner with me?" | ask him.

'If you want to.

'l will get us Mexican food." | know that he loves Mexican food.

"Maybe we can continue studying for three more hours or something," Sabrina suggests after | show her the

messages.

We fail to keep studying for three hours and end up closing our textbooks after two hours and Sabrina leaves,

saying that | need to think about everything on my own. | decide to read for a while after | make an order. | don't

know what I'm going to exactly say to him, but I know that we need to talk. | know that | can't keep things like

that between us. | don't want to lose him.

At eighty-thirty, my doorbell rings. | try not to seem eager as | open the door for Silas. I'm used to Silas hugging