The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

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"Rosie is here! It must be my lucky day." But this is certainly not my lucky day. It's

effortless to detect that voice. Silas Cromwell. The most annoying human being on earth. Had it not been for his sister's birthday. I would have punched him in the face, but I don't want to ruin the fun. The little girl doesn't deserve that from me. "I can't miss the opportunity to see you," I sarcastically say as I turn around to face him. Either he has grown taller, or I have shrunk.

"Oh, I know you're in love with me." He smirks, making me laugh.

"More like in love with the idea of strangling you."!

"I point out.

Sometimes, we wish we could get rid of some people in our life. Silas Cromwell is somebody I want to get rid of, but it's almost impossible.

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How can I get rid of him when his sister, Aniyah, is best friends with Lily and Holden, my siblings? Out of every single person in their school, did they have to pick his sister to be friends with?

He has been getting on my nerves since day one. I remember when Lily and Holden came to Mum one day, telling her that they had made a new friend at school and her name was Aniyah

to our place so my siblings and their new friend could

up at our place, but they weren't alone. There

through my stuff, and splash me in the pool whenever the five of us would go for a swim. He used to

because he is sometimes nice to me, but I try not to trust him so much because Silas cannot be trusted, "Keep up the act of hating me and

birthday party, but when Lily told Aniyah that I wasn't going to attend, she begged me to come, and I couldn't say no to that little girl. She is like my Einle sister, and I can't say no to her. Her parents transformed their backyard into any child's

fifteen and that relationship did not last for more than seven months. He said

your ex. I don't want to get my knuckles bruised again." He doesn't

my ex-boyfriend wasn't exactly a clean one. I caught him cheating on me at a party and when I confronted him about the whole thing, he said that I was the one who drove him to do that because I refused to

by surprise that night. I thought he was going to give me the "I told you so speech, because he did tell me before that my ex wasn't a good person. Instead, he held me as I cried and took me to get ice cream. That was

you still single?" he asks. Why is he so interested in my

"I am." I reply.

know that he is single. Silas doesn't like any sort of commitment, and this is widely known in our social circle. He plays football and is widely popular. I have seen how girls act around him, yet he doesn't give them his attention at all "Expected"1 shrug. I have always wondered why

college?" he asks while looking

tell him, taking a sip from

your joining the same university as me. I'm trying to forget

nods "Rat Im news det

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going to bump into each other." I'm trying to convince myself of