The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

| longed for how good it felt to be held by him. "What brought you here, Fiona? I'm certain you aren't invited."

Julian's voice held the sort of strength I always wanted him to have

want you to payback for what you've done to me, Fiona addressed me, makingraise my eyebrows in

surprise.

"Enlighten me, please. What did | exactly do?" | folded my arms over my chest.

"Because of you, my life is over! | can't get any modeling deal. Jeffrey can no longer sustain the lifestyle he used

to provide us with! | can't even get any respectable man to date me" | looked at Julan, knowing that he was

behind it all and it took a lot of strength to prevent myself from laughing.

"Correction, you can't get any rich man to date you, because they know what will happen to them if they do,"

Julian spoke. My speculations were

Inc.

"You have her back! | want my life back!" she yelled. She thought that by coming here and causing a scene we

would give her what she wanted, but she was absolutely wrong. | looked around and surely, people were starting

to notice what was going on. Did somebodys "This is simply karma, Fiona. Did you think that | was going to let

you live peacefully after destroying my love life! I'm going to make you pay for what you've done until your last

breath. 1 lost five years with the love of my

life because of you and this is something | can never forget or forgive." My heart swelled when he calledthe

love of his life. No matter what | said to myself, | knew Jalian wasn't playing any role here. He was speaking the

truth. "It's not my fault that you

u didn't trust her enough that a few pictures made you throw your marriage away.

"| felt his body tense against mine and | wished that | could do anything to make him ignore her words.

Julian didn't say another word. Instead, he gave one look to one of the bodyguards and immediately, Fiona was

escorted out of the party. She kept screaming and yelling, but she was quickly thrown out of the house. Ansel

Harper's husband, made sure that she was to never be allowed inside the gated community ever again.

| looked at Julian and kept my eyes fixed on him. "Are you alright?" | found myself asking. He didn't say anything

but gavea short nod

"I'm sorry, it's my fault, Harper said guiltly as she stood in front of us. | looked at her with confusion, so she

continued. "1 posted a picture of Rosie andtogether a while ago. Fiona must have figured out that the party

was here and that's how she found out." It's okay. Nothing happened." | assured her.

"I don't incan to pry, but did you actually kis Rose asked us. The excitement in her voice which she was trying to

conceal didn't escape my bolice.

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| knew what she was thinking about.

"We uh, we did," | said, looking at Julian. He seemed to be at a loss for words and | couldn't blhim. What |

did was a bit reckless, and | didn't mean to toy with his feelings, but he was the only one on my mind.

"Why?" Harper frowned.

"Because of Fiona. She said a few things | couldn't handle and L... maybe I didn't think clearly." | looked down,

then looked at Julian, "I'm sorry."

"It's alright." Julian offereda kind smile. "The thing is, you told Fiona that we were back together and

someone like her won't shut up."

| was aware of that and for sreason, | wasn't annoyed.

"So this means that you two need to date!" Rose questioned.

"Yes," | replied. | swore | saw Uncle Steven smirking, Was he enjoying this?

"You don't have to do that," Julian quickly said, but | shook my head. | was willing to do that. For him.

"I want to." | realized that my words might hold another meaning, so | added. "If this is going to shut her up. I'm

willing to do it."

"Mommy! Aren't we going to blow the candles?" Rosie's voice interrupted as she crunning towards me.

"Of course, cupcake." | grinned, picking her up. I looked again at Julian whose eyes were fixed on us. Skepticism

was clear in his eyes. My nerves weren't made of steel. | was anxious and shaking from the inside. | knew that |

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Part ofwas glad that | had another chance at dating Emily again, even if it was going to be fake. Another part

was scared. How couldn't I? That was a dangerous gbecause | might fall more for her. No. | was sure that |

was going to fall more for her. When she kissed me, my body went in a state of shock for a moment before

kissing her back. The reason behind her kiss made my heart leap with joy. She couldn't handle Fiona hurting me,

so she acted without thinking for my sake.

When her lips met mine, my world stopped, and | wanted nothing but to freeze that moment and live in it

forever. Her lips were as soft as 1 remembered them and it was still impossible forto get enough of them.

| thought she would flinch when | touched her, but she didn't. Instead, she leaned intoand | was taken back

to when we were married and how she was relax in my embrace. | was taken back to the days when she used to

cuddle intoin the middle of the night in he casy to tell that she was nervous.

Today was the fashion show she had been working on for the past few months. Despite her massive success, it

was easy to

"These are for you," | smiled at her as | handed her the big bouquet of light pink carnations | got her.

"Thank you." She smiled atas she took the bouquet fromand kissed my check, and | automatically held

her close tofor a second as | placed my hand on the small of her back.

"We had been fake-dating for the past three weeks. We went out on a date once and | brought her dinner twice

at her workplace when she stayed

late. Articles were being written here and there and neither did we confinn or deny anything.

"You don't have any reason to be nervous, You're Amelia Eddings. You're a queen in this industry now," | told her

and her smile grew.

"I can't wait to know what you think about it," she said, looking up at me. Her eyes sparkled under the lights,

adding more to her beasty.

-1 would've told you sooner if you had shownthe designs before the fashion show. I playfully poked her nose,

making her giggle.

"| can tell you the thof the designs you're about to see," she said.

"I would love that, | grinned

"Fallen leaves," she replied, and my smile grew. She had always loved Fall and that was her first Fall collection.

Everybody was talking about it because despite how successful she was, she had never held a fashion show

during fall. When | asked her about that before, sh to stay hidden forever.

"Are you ready for our trip to Disneyland?" | asked her. We were supposed to leave in a week. | made sure to set

the date after her fashion show.

"I'm as excited as Rosie," she shyly laughed.

We were acting like any normal couple and weirdly we weren't doing that for a show and that was enough to give