The Accidental Wife by Sara Islam

Chapter 36

| knew that he was going to come. | intended to allow Rose a plus one because he was going to show up whether

| liked it or not. The entrance to my event was with invitations. | wasn't going to let him cause a scene and |

didn't want to directly address him with an invitaWas | ready to see him? No. | needed a century to prepare

myself to see him again. Julian Kensington stepped on my heart and tossedout. | didn't give a damn if he

looked forafterwards. Nothing could erase from my head the way he treated me. | could never | wanted

to greet Rose, Steven, and Harper. | missed them so much.

"Mart." | turned to my boyfriend. "I'm going to say hi to the Kensingtons," | told him.

"Alright, baby," he said, givinga peck on my lips before unwrapping his arm from around my waist,

We had been dating for almost a year. When we first started dating. | told him about my plan to move to LA and

he liked the idea because he also wanted to move there. He was offered a good position here and he was now

the CFO of a very prestigious automotive comp He madehappy and | was comfortable with him.

Harper was the first one to noticewhen | made my way towards them. | was nervous. | knew they were mad

at me, but I couldn't just get in

contact with him.

"I'm torn between my desire to scream at you for not contactingall of those years and wanting to hug the

hell out of you because | miss you so much," she said, makingsmile.

"Can you please do the latter because | miss you too!" | told her as | stepped closer, already pulling her into a

hug. "You don't know how much | missed you

"You would have called if you really missed me. We all looked for you everywhere," she mumbled, squeezing me.

"Let's not discuss this now. | will tell you everything later, | promised. | wasn't emotionally ready to speak about

my departure.

When we pulled apart, | walked over to Rose. She still looked as beautiful and elegant as | remembered her. She

was wearing the very first dress | designed for her. A beautiful gesture that | truly appreciated.

"I can't believe that you have finally achieved your dream. I'm so proud of you, honey." This woman knew how to

make my heart crack.

"I'm so sorry for leaving without a goodbye," | murmured as she pulledinto her embrace and kissed my

cheek. | was also sorry for hiding her granddaughter from her, but | couldn't tell her that now.

"You don't know how much we miss you." | felt her caressing my hair. No words could ever be enough to describe

how much | missed them too Losing them tore my heart into pieces because they were the family | never had.

They were everything | had always wanted in a Julian took them fromand for that too, | couldn't forgive him.

"I knew you were going to make it. | just wish that we were by your side," Steven said as he gavea fatherly

hug-

"| swear, it wasn't by choice. If | could have stayed in contact with them without having Julian in my life, | would

have done it, but having them in. my life meant that Julian was going to know everything about my whereabouts.

"You're surely going to cover, right?" Rose askedand | immediately nodded. | missed going to their

place. | missed everything about them.

My eyes landed on Julian who was standing behind his mother on the opposite side of the table and |

immediately looked away.

Would he be there if | went to visit?

| needed to prepare myself for having him around because he was going to find out about Rosalie and | didn't

plan on depriving my daughter of having a relationship with her father any longer.

"Thave to go now, but we will talk later." | smiled politely at them, then turned to Harper. "Is your old number still

the same?"

"Great. | will text you, | said before walking away.

When | walked back to my table, | found Maya and Sam already there. It seemed like they had just arrived.

"Sorry for being late, but Mum wasn't feeling well. Maya apologized once she saw me.

"How is the now?" | asked.

"It's just a stomach bug. Sam assured me. "How did meeting the Kensingtons go?"

*She nodded,

met all of them, including Julian." | took a deep breath. "Nothing went wrong with his family, but it looks like you

guys weren't joking when you Chapter 36

toldthat he was keen on getting back with me."

"And what's your plan!" Maya a wondered.

"I have a boyfriend. Maya. There's no plan other than putting boundaries between Julian and me. I'm not going to

let him ruin my life once again. | was a fool once, but | like to believe that I finally grew up." | wasn't going to let

him humiliateagain and accuseof thing "But you have to prepare yourself. | give it a month maximum

for Julian to find out about Rosalie," she warned me. She was too generous. | gave it two weeks.

"I know and | told you before. I'm not going to keep her away from him any longer. If he wants to be in her life. |

will let him be involved."

"He is not going to abandon his daughter. The poor guy hasn't moved on from you and it's been five years." Sam

had always been more lenient on Julian and | didn't understand why.

1 looked at the Kensingtons table and saw his eyes glued on me. | would be lying if | said | didn't miss him and |

no longer had any feelings for him. Julian owned a piece of my heart and no matter how many times | tried, |

couldn't bring myself to hate him, but in our case, | truly wanted our marriage to work. | loved him with

everything inand | couldn't imagine my life without him. But he forcedto live without him and now it was

impossible to take him back.