The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter 19

I wasn't going to let him put me through that again. I wasn't going to allow him to accuse me of being a cheater.

I was not a cheater!

"I won't let you insult my loyalty! Do you hear me? I have been loyal to you. I'm not the one who messaged him. I showed you the message! If I had something to hide, I wouldn't have let you touch my phone," I snapped at him. I had never been that angry at him, but that w won't allowed to cros

*1 didn't insuh your loyalty." His voice was way lower than mine.

"You did!" My voice cracked. Shit! I didn't want to cry in front of him. I wasn't that comfortable around him yet. "You know what I took a deep breath, "we need things to get back to how they originally were. I turned to leave.

"You still love him, don't you?" That had me stop and slowly run to him.

"What?" I was really confused. How did he come up with that conclusion?

"You still love him and you're waiting for any sign from him to get back with him, don't you?" His voice was low and raspy, as if it pained him to utter those words With every word he said, he took a step towards me until there were only a couple of steps between us. Why w "I wasn't aware that you considered me that cheap. I muttered, stepping away from him, but he quickly closed the space between us and wrapped his fingers around my armL

"Do you still love him, Emily? Why did I sense fear in his voice!

"Why do you care" I had to know the answer, because you wouldn't sound like that unless you had feelings for the other person.

"Answer me, please. Despair was evident in his voice, making my heart skip a beat,

I sighed and unlocked my phone, handing it to him. "Check his messages. See if I replied to any of them nicely"

He shook his head and gently pushed my hand away "Use your words, Emily Tell me whether you still love him or not?

love him. I can never love a man who didn't give me a chance. I can never love a man who chose to abandon me

to

first four months of your marriage barely talking to you and asked you later to be friends with benefits with him and went crazy

unable to say a word. What

in the way he treated me, but I wasn't aware that things had really developed to that extent between

tolerate only two months ago, I mumbled, trying to knock

moment!

get out of my head." I must have been dreaming. "I'm tired of pretending that I don't feel anything towards you, so please out of my misery and tell

deep breath, closing

against a wall. I didn't understand what was happening and I was caught in the moment, yet

doing to me," Julian whispered,

I asked, meeting

he kissed me again. What changed? I thought I was going so spend two years walking on eggshells around a man I was supposed to consider my husband, but I had a feeling that

""What ar

replied casually, making

weren't supposed to kiss unless we were having sex." I tilted my

-Arr you

have sex now!" He

with you today."

be a real married couple. Let's give each other a real chance in this marriage," he told me, playing

12:30 PM c

Chapter 19

girl inside of me jumping up and down as if somebody had told her that she was about to be taken

to show you." He reached for the hand that wasn't injured and took me to his office. I had probably been to

behind it. Even the couch wasn't the usual black or white, it was a light shade of blue, complementing the rest of the place. "Here you