The Accidental Wife (Emily and Julian)
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It’s been a while since I last slept with Rosie in the same bed. Waking up with her in my arms again is officially one of my favorite things in life. Last night, she fell asleep on me while we were watching a movie. The doctor told me that the poison was going to make her a bit weaker for the next few days.

I have physiotherapy today and I don’t want to go because I don’t want to leave her alone. I think I can call her mum or mine to stay with her because going to that session is important I’m returning to the field in mere days. I thought I would be more excited than this, but apparently I’m more excited about waking up next to my wife again. Is this because I was on the verge of losing her?

I take a look at her and smile to myself. Her face still looks innocent and beautiful, as if she’s still a college girl. My stunning girl looks so good with her head on my chest and her arm draped around my torso. Her blonde hair is covering half of her flawless face, and I fail to resist the urge to kiss her cheek.

The sides of her mouth curl into a small smile and she murmurs a quiet ‘morning‘. Her eyes are still closed, but I know that she’s awake. I play with her hair, and she moans as she moves her head slightly.

“Did you have a good sleep, cupcake?” I wonder.

“Yes. Best sleep I had in a while,” she whispers, nuzzling her head in the crook of my neck as her arm moves around and half of her body becomes on top of me. “Silas.” Her voice is so low, but I manage to hear her.

“Yes, cupcake,” I say.

my neck

“Hove you,” she murmurs, causing me to smile. I am now sure that she hasn’t stopped loving me, but hearing her say these words means the world to me. They give me hope and make me believe that this isn’t the end of us. At some point, I had this fear inside of me that she no longer had any love in her heart for me, but thankfully, my fears are baseless and not true.

“And I love you too, cupcake. More shoulder.

than I can

ever put into words,” I tell her and place a kiss on the delicate skin of her

I feel her play with my hair, making me smile. I love this version of us. We are holding onto each other despite everything. We are both in love and we don’t care about anything else in the world even though the atmosphere isn’t that calm.

“You have physiotherapy today, right?” Rosie asks, pulling herself away from me slowly.

“Yes, but I’m not leaving you alone. I’m going to call either my mum or yours,” I tell her as I pull myself up and pull her with

1. me.

“I can stay on my own, Silas. Nothing will happen to me. I’m safe here.” Her tone is assuring.

“I know you’re safe here, but I don’t want to leave you alone because I’m worried you may get sick again or anything. I don’t know if there are any unknown side effects to that poison.” I still can’t believe that she got poisoned. I know that the poison wants strong enough to kill her, but that doesn’t make the idea any easier. I saw her waiting and turning in pain, which is a sight I never want to see ever again. I was helpless and didn’t know what to do to take her pain away.

“I’m going to be okay,” she attempts to reassure me, but I shake my

head.

“I’m not compromising when it comes to your well–being.” I kiss her forehead. “Come on. Let’s have breakfast.” I get out of bed and pull her with me. I love how sleepy and lazy she always is when I try to take her out of bed whenever she doesn’t have anything to do.

After brushing our teeth and washing our faces, we head to the kitchen. I look at the list the doctor left for me yesterday and try to replace something she likes that she can eat.

“Okay, you can eat bananas, toast, cereal and saltine crackers. Which of them do you feel like eating now?” I ask her.

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“Cereal sounds good.” She shrugs and hops off her seat. The doctor said that she can move around the house as much as she wants so long as she doesn’t exhaust herself; however, I don’t want her to do anything. I know I’m probably being insufferable and overprotective, but she was poisoned while we were together. I feel like I have failed her in some sort of

way.

“Stop looking at me like I’m about to faint, Silas. I’m okay I promise. Pouring milk and cereal in a bowl won’t hurt me,” she tells me. I have been watching her without even noticing.

“Sorry.” I give her a sheepish smile.

“I will call Mum and tell her about what happened. Can’t wait for her to freak out,” she jokes, making me roll my eyes. She is trying to lighten up the situation although it’s not light at all.

Over the past few years, I learned that Rosie sometimes has unusual reactions to serious situations. I remember how she managed to render me speechless with the way she reacted when I told her about the lie I told my teammates at college that we were dating.

I watch as she unlocks her phone and dials her mum’s number. I take a seat beside her and wait for Emily to pick up.

“Hey, sweetheart. How are you?” Emily’s voice indicates that she has been up for a while.

“Hey, Mum: Well, I’m sort of good,” Rosie sounds nervous.

“What do you mean by sort of?” Concern instantly takes over Emily’s tone.

“I got poisoned and Silas took me to the hospital yesterday, but I’m okay now,” Rosie’s words are rushed that I’m not sure if Emily understood what she has just been told.

“Let me make sure that I got this correctly. You’re saying that you got poisoned? What do you mean by that? Like food poisoning?” Emily inquires, as if she is waiting for confirmation to react correctly.

“Not food poisoning,” Rosie replies and looks at me for help.

“Everest is back, Emily. He managed to replace his way to Rosie’s food or drink one day and put poison in it. The poison he used doesn’t kill, but it causes extreme sickness,” I explain. She is going to explode.

“I’m coming over because you two have a lot of explanation to do,” she tells us in a stern tone before hanging up.

Rosie and I look at each other for a second because we know we’re about to get heavily scolded.

“Do you think we should run away?” Rosie suggests, making me chuckle..

“Unfortunately, Rosie, your mum will replace us if we do that. I think it’s better to wait for her,” I reply, and she shakes her head at me while giggling quietly. “By the way, I want to thank you for taking care of Aniyah when she needed you.”

“You already thanked me before, Silas. There’s no need to do that again,” she says, tilting her head to the side.

“I heard you two talking. I heard her telling you that she was getting bullied.” Her mouth parts in surprise. It killed me to know that other kids were bullying my sister because I developed an addiction. This is one of the incentives I have to prevent myself from drinking ever again. “I wasn’t eavesdropping, but I was passing by when you were talking with her before taking her to her room to talk.”

“Aniyah is my little sister too. I won’t see her hurt and just watch I really care about her,” she replies with a smile on her face. “Let’s go to the living room and watch an episode or two of Friends until Mum arrives.”

Whatever is going on between us now says that we’re not heading towards our end, and I love everything about that. I love that Rosie is still mine and it seems like she’s going to stay mine.