The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter 73

"It has come to my notice that we've never done that before, so I'm really excited about the whole double date thing," Harper said as she applied another layer of mascara.

Officially, I had recovered from my bullet wounds and Jeffrey's hearing was in ten days. I knew that he wasn't going to receive a lifetime in prison, but I knew that he wouldn't get a year or two either.

Julian and Ansel decided to take Harper and me on a double date which was a first. We had never been on a double date before, so we were a bit confused, yet excited.

"Do I look good?" I had an olive green dress on with gold heels and a gold clutch. My hair was pulled away from my face in a half updo and it fell against my back. "You look absolutely gorgeous!" she gushed, making me smile.

"And you look dashing." She was on fire with her baby blue dress and silver heels. Ansel was so lucky to have someone as beautiful as her as his partner. Honestly, she was lucky too because Ansel was a great husband. He loved and supported her in a way many women "It's kind of weird that they said they would be waiting for us at the restaurant. Don't you think?" I wondered, adding some touchups to my lipstick.

"Yeah, like why didn't we go together?" she agreed with me. "Men are weird." She shrugged, making me chuckle.

"They probably say the same thing about us sometimes," I told her.

"One time Ansel couldn't understand why I was crying because the hot water wasn't working and I wanted to take a shower. He told me to just take a cold shower since it was Summer and I burst into tears." I could see myself in the same position. "He didn't understand that "I get it, but he probably won't," I said. Men couldn't really get everything about women and that was fine by me. The thing I loved about the man I

was in love with was how he would ask me 'What can I do to make you feel better?' whenever he felt lost. Usually, all I wanted was for him to hold me for a while.

"Are you done?" I wondered, looking at Harper.

"Yeah, let's go." The two of us headed towards my car and I drove off to the restaurant they told us about.

I spent around two weeks at home and Julian made it his number one mission to take care of me. I wasn't allowed to cook or do anything and only when the doctor said that I needed to start walking did he allow me to start

to worry him at work since he had to get back to the office after two spending a week working from home, so I thought if I did

could move freely. I also wanted Julian to get back to his

assigned for me. A few months ago, I would have hated the idea. But now,

inside and I will get it," Harper told me. Since I was basically at the restaurant stairs, I nodded and

the door, I was surprised to see that the place was empty. There were dim lights and rose petals on the

What was going on?

need to go that

Harper should have been with me. Where did she go

looked at the rose petals on the floor and noticed that they made a path. Curiosity killed me and I decided to follow it. Soft

the restaurant. When I raised my head to look in front of me, I ended up giggling loudly. Julian was waiting for me at the end of the path with a huge bouquet of pink carnations in his hands. "What's going on?"

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he said, smiling at

I took the flowers from him. "What's all of

have come to the realization that you're my entire world. I cannot imagine myself living without you. You understand me like nobody else and when you're near, I feel complete. I look forward to waking up

you safe and happy. This time, if you agree to marry me, I promise you a version of forever just like the ones you see

there was no tomorrow. He took me to another world and portrayed the most delightful image in my mind. Slowly, he pulled away and there was the most

I saw basically everybody I loved behind me. It dawned on me that Harper was in on

asked Harper, who shook her head with a

laughed as she approached me and we

away from being my sister-in-law

in the room, we all decided to have a family dinner. I was still in

both serious about our relationship,