The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter 56

Rosie's birthday was today. We decided to throw her a birthday party at her grandparents' house. That was the biggest birthday she had ever had When we were in New Jersey, I used to take her out because it was only the two of us. She had a couple of friends there, bu I wanted to throw her a big party to make it up to her for the four years I took from her and when I wired my desire to Rose, she told me to leave everything for her.

Knowing Rose, I was certain that she wasn't going to disappoint me, and I was right. She turned the hackyard into every child's dream.

some of their

She had bouncy castles, and every single piece of decor was related to Rapunzel since she was Rosie's favourite. Her cousins and som friends were here and it seemed like everybody was having fun

Two weeks had passed since any conversation with Julian. We had been talking m more, but he hadn't tried to do anything that could fall under the category of 'winning his ex-wife fuck' and I was glad that he was giving me some space.

I was scareil, because I shouldn't feel that kind of happiness upon seeing Julian's name on my phone I had never felt like that with Mart, even before resuming to California, What if Julian was my comfort zone that I couldn't escape from! "What's on your mind?" Harper snapped me out of my thoughts as she stood beside me in the backyard:

**Lots of things, Treplied, moving my glass in circles absentmindedly.

"Does Julian happen to be one of them!" The thing I liked the most about Harper was hoor direct she was. She was never the type of person who would conceal what they really wanted to say and I appreciated her honesty. ""Yes," I admitted with a heavy sigh.

"He still loves you," she said and my heart tightened. "I'm not trying to cloud your judgment, but for years, I have seen my brother turn into a ghost and he only started to get back to life when you appeared again. I know that what he del was terrible and there are probably r loves you."

how I was sure that she wasn't

I whispered, trying to calm my pounding heart down. "I had another plan in mind, and I thought that I would be able to follow it. When I came back, I wanted Rosie to be close to you as her family and I wanted her to have a good relationship with her fa Why the hell was I venting to Harper? What was

She smiled at me. I was thankful for the sunglasses I was wearing because they concealed the tears that welled in my eyes "Can I

out a short laugh. "Maybe I should

having

I miss having you bere, Emily" My heart thuttered at hearing my old name

"I needed to come

She needed to have her family around

you neriled people around you too. I know that you're strong enough to handle the entire world on your shoulders, but just because you're strong, that doesn't mean that you have to endure it all alone," she replied Ildn't

two of them looked over the moon. My little girl was squealing as he camned her by placing his ha My slaughter's eyes fell on me and her grin widened. "Mommy!

my daughter and ex husband. When she saw me

unushered her

beautiful play" Julian sand when

him. "This dress

Chapter 36

noticed how it had become easy