The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

I kissed her last night. I now know how her lips taste like, and the thing is, I've been craving them ever since. I wish I could kiss her again, but when we pulled apart, the first thing she said was 'this is a big mistake. I didn't know what else to say except to agree with her. Deep down, I know that this is not a mistake. It was never a mistake to me. She tasted like she was made for 1 A surge of jealousy takes over my body when I imagine her kissing anybody else. It doesn't seem right. Rosie should be mine. I know how to treat her right. I won't hurt her like her

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A knock on my door pulls me out of my thoughts.

"Come in," I say, squeezing the grey stress ball in my hand.

Mum walks inside and by the look on her face, she seems like she wants to talk about something. I sit up straight on the bed as my eyes stay glued to her while she takes a seat at the end of the bed. "Did you kiss Rosie at the party?" My eyebrows rise in surprise. How did she find out? I didn't tell anyone. Did Rosie tell her? Why would she do that when she was the one who told me not to mention the kiss to anyone? "Who told you?" I ask.

"The news," she replies, handing me her phone. I look at her screen and find a picture of me and Rosie kissing. An article is written beneath the picture about how the Kensington sweetheart managed to make me change how I view dating. "We... we did kiss, but we agreed on forgetting about it," I tell her.

"Don't you like her? Why would you want to forget about it?" My eyes widen when she says that. I haven't told her anything before. "What? Do you think I don't know?" She laughs.

"She doesn't feel the same way, Mum. I'm just the guy who irritates her." I sigh, squeezing the ball harder.

"Then stop irritating her. Make her see that you have feelings for her!" she

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exclaims.

"Cany

you help me out?" I ask helplessly.

you'd ask me

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you out, but I think y check

need to

find a girl I like. But others are from some famous brands, inquiring about having me and Rosie as their brand am**ors or just being the faces of their new campaigns.

care so much about

the messages and find one from Rosie. It

to talk, but I have no clue what she may

me.

to meet?' I

reply is rather quick. 'My place

breath and get up to change my clothes. How am I supposed to face Emily and Julian? I don't want them to think that I'm

opens the door for me, it's easy to detect how nervous she is. Neither of us expected that to happen. It was just a kiss

want something to drink?"

her to the kitchen. "You've seen the

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She nods without looking at me..

know what's going

fooling around and just wanted to know how it would feel like if we kissed," she says, finally turning to look at me. "Why did you kiss me, Silas?" "You... you looked kissable," I answer her question. My answer. ms to startle her for a second. I'm aware of how s**id my answer seems, but what else can. I tell her? Do I tell her that

thing to play with my feelings."

know I haven't exactly portrayed the best image of me in

with her hands for a moment before

why did you kiss me back?" It's not like she didn't reciprocate. I might have

"I don't know. It was the heat of the

say. "How would you like us to deal with what happened?" I ask her.