All Chapters of The Accidental Wife: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

She hurriedly put her clothes back on, fumbling with the buttons of her blouse as her heartbeat raced in her chest. The floor felt unusually cold beneath her bare feet, and she shivered slightly as she tiptoed to the door. She paused for a second, her hand resting on the doorknob, listening. A faint, familiar voice had just echoed through the hallway—and it wasn’t hard to guess who it belonged to. With a sharp breath, she opened the door and peeked out. And yes, she was right. Julia was there.In front of Nicholas, Julia stood tall—shoulders pulled back, but her eyes betrayed her. They were filled with a desperate kind of hope, a longing that couldn’t be masked even by her carefully composed expression."It's not over yet, Nic," she said, her voice soft but trembling. "Do you remember what you told me back then—that we would never be apart?"Her fingers toyed nervously with the hem of her coat, and she bit her lower lip as if that would make him remember. Something—anything."Don't be

They ended up sleeping on the sofa hugging each other without a single thread covering them. Now Rachel could understand why Nicholas was so reluctant to fall in love, the trauma of his childhood never left his head. That night they slept very soundly as if there was nothing to worry about in this world anymore.The next morning, Rachel squinted at the sunlight coming in through the gaps in the curtains, she glanced to her side, Nicholas wasn't there. She staggered up to her room with only a blanket covering her. She thought maybe Nicholas was getting ready to work in his room, but as she was going up the stairs she saw him standing in front of the glass wall talking on the phone, looking well-groomed in a cool tracksuit on his athletic body.Their eyes met, Rachel awkwardly grimaced and walked into her room. After all, she wasn't used to the situation yet. Making love and living a professional life without love didn't seem like her forte. She was not surprised if it turned out that s

"Yes..." she heard herself saying that word. Nicholas' face turned completely pale, his eyes widened, he looked at Rachel in complete shock expression. Seeing Nicholas' reaction, Rachel immediately laughed as she waved her hand, "I was just kidding! Oh my God, look at your face! As if being loved by a woman like me is bad luck or something!" she said with a smirk on her face.Nicholas breathed a sigh of relief, "That's not funny at all!" he snapped as he went inside to get the car keys.Rachel sighed, just hearing Nicholas say that made her chest tighten. Rejection was hard and painful, but being rejected by the person who will be with him for the next two years feels much more painful. When Nicholas appeared with his car keys in his hands, he put on a cheerful face again.Without speaking to each other they walked side by side towards the VVIP parking area.Until Rachel finally lost her temper, "Do you have to keep that annoying face? I told you, I was just kidding! How could I fall

Lucy stammered, "Yeah, um of course! I mean, the topic of Nicholas and Julia was hot among Stanford alumni, you forgot Joe was an alumnus of that college!" she rambled on, Joe was Lucy's older brother. Rachel nodded her head, trying to believe her roommate's answer."So what is Julia doing? Why did she suddenly appear?" asked Lucy, her brow furrowed with suspicion. Rachel took a deep breath and told how she had first found out about Julia's presence at Nicholas' office."Gosh, that woman is so shameless! She showed up at Nicholas' office and refused to go home before she managed to meet him? What a bitch!" Lucy became very angry.Rachel narrowed her eyes, "You sound angrier than me..." she still couldn't get the suspicion out of her head.Lucy chuckled "How could I not be angry! That woman bothered you! She shouldn't have done that! Has she forgotten what she did to Nicholas before! How could she do that!""Nicholas and I are just in a contract relationship, you don't have to be that

“Are you going to run away from me? Again?” Trey Cole’s voice cut through the warm air of the coffee shop. His expression shifted from hopeful to stormy in an instant, all the brightness draining from his face as if someone had switched off a light inside him. Rachel stiffened. She cleared her throat, trying—and failing—to mask her unease. “Trey, I’m engaged,” she said, forcing the words out slowly. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you. It’s just… you know…” Her sentence trailed off, dissolving into the space between them. She couldn’t find a way to finish it without sounding guilty or defensive. Trey leaned closer, his jaw tightening with frustration. “Everybody in New York knows you two are fake,” he hissed. “I mean, look at you! You’re here, spiraling and drinking cheap coffee while your loving fiancé is out there taking care of his ex? Does that even make sense?” His voice rose with every word, his breath shaky, almost out of control. Rachel felt her jaw lock. “She was hi