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

at pick up, Mum met Aniyah's mum and invited them to our place so

weren't alone. There

wrong. That boy liked to prank me, snoop through my stuff, and splash me in the pool whenever the five of us

siblings have been friends for five years and throughout these years, I have put up with his arrogance and terrible personality. Well, it isn't that terrible, 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 I might believe it." He chuckles, taking a sip from the energy drink in his hand. Instead of saying anything, I check my phone. I'm supposed to be going out with Kendall, my best friend, after a

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 dream. Bouncy castles

once when I was fifteen and that relationship did not last for more than seven months. He said that I was boring and a prude because

need to make sure that he is not as bad as your ex. I don't want to get my

with 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 sleep with

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 the nicest thing he had ever done to me "You don't need to worry about that," I

single?" he asks. Why is

"I am." I reply.

doesn't give them his attention at all "Expected"1 shrug. I have always wondered

you ready for college?" he asks while looking at me this time, changing the

about the new football season," I tell him, taking a sip from

excited about your joining the same university as me. I'm trying to forget about that, but

He nods "Rat Im

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don't think we're going to bump into each other." I'm trying to convince myself of that, because I surely don't want to see him