The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter

25

My life had been nothing but a dream for the past five months. Julian and I were truly happy, and it seemed that our marriage was going to last. I got promoted at work exactly two months ago and it was a complete surprise for me. I was told that I had the best performance

promoted to being the assistant manager of our department.

Of course, I heard some people saying I only got the job because I was the CEO's wife, but I was getting used to such accusations, I learned that no matter what, people were going to assume that I only had what I had because of who my husband was

Julian knew that whatever job I had at the moment was only temporary, I was still saving to build my own brand. He had offered to help me a lot. but I always refused. I wanted to start from scratch with my hard- earned money, not the money that had been given to me by my husband. Onginally, I wanted to quit working at the company after a year and move somewhere else, but Julian convinced me to stay

"We don't bring work to our home, babe." I felt Julian planting a kiss on my cheek, making me

smile.

"I know, but look at the transactions and calculations. Over the past month, there are around fifteen thousand dollars missing." I handed him the papers, yet he pushed them away and leaned back on the couch, pulling me on top of him. "That's normal, sweetheart. We deal with millions of dollars. This is basically some sort of change for us." He pushed a strand of my hair behind my

"That's not right." I frowned. "This money is hard-earned. You should be aware of where every penny goes"

"When the corporation is as big as ours, expect some sort of stealing. As long as it's as little as the price of one of my watches, I don't care. 90% of the time we end up finding out where the money had gone, so there's no reason for you to be worried. We also launch inve while and thieves always get caught. Sometimes I let things go loose for a small period of time to catch perpetrators" he explained

"Now, can I have a movie night with my beautiful wife!"

"Yeah, you can." I pecked his lips and reached for the remote to pick something to watch

"Anything in particular?" he asked me. I shook my head and let him choose. Our taste in movies was almost the same, except that he was into action movies, and I wasn't too fond of themL

When I woke up the next morning. I didn't find myself on the couch. Instead, I found myself tucked in bed and sleeping in his embrace. I did not remember going to our bedroom. I must have fallen asleep while we were watching the movie last night.

I stirred a little, but that made him tighten his hold around me, which made me smile. "We have work. Mr. CEO, I mumbled and kissed his cheek.

call in sick. They know that we're married and live together, so it makes sense if we both get sick. Fl is contagious" I loved the blue shade of his eyes when he woke

and get up." I poked his nose as 1 rested

to a hard worker. He groaned as he loosened his

late, I did not have time to make us any breakfast, but Julian,

and placed it in my bag. There were many gestures he usually made that made me awoon. He constantly sent me coffee and even

He also made sure to

comfortable routine we both had fallen into and honestly, I wouldn't change it for the

have

replied instantly, apologizing that he

you want me to bring you something

would be amazing, sunshine

to the little coffee shop right across the company and ordered myself a sandwich and a mutin. I knew how Julian loved quinoa salad, so I got it for him along with a lemon bar since he loved them so much. "Hi, Emily" I

SAW

Chevier.

hoping that he would understand that I

getting more beautiful," he commented, and

"Marriage is

tapped my finger, waiting for my order

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Chapter 25

need to drop the act" A slight gasp escaped

snappeil,

I quickly walked over to him,

my ex, and he has it in his mind that I still have feelings for him,"

coffer shop. I didn't know how he knew that

headed towards Julian's office to give him his lunch. I didn't want to tell him about what happened, because I was certain that he

1 didn't want him to