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Kim and Ryder got down of the car and followed the cops who had strategized to surround the building and already had a plan to get Arabella out of the building safely. By the time they busted into the building, they were able to subdue the two men blocking the path to the door. They got to Aurora and put her in handcuffs before taking her down to meet Kim, Ryder and Kieran standing there. "What of Arabella?" Kieran asked trying to get into the building. "She would be done shortly so just wait" the officer guarding the door said. "You can not go in" the officer added when he tried to push his way in through the doors. "Kim you did this?" she asked with a gasp Aurora screamed as she saw them standing there. "Yes but I did it for you" Kim said with a smile stepping closer to her. "For my sake? you ruined my entire plan even though I confided in you" she continued screaming. "I had to ruin your plan and shorten your sentence. I am sure if you beg well enough for forgiveness you wou
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"Kieran" she let out with tears flowing from her eyes. Kieran rushed to her side and held her to himself stroking her head as tears poured from her eyes. "It is all over now" he said multiple times it almost took the tune of a song. "I was so afraid" she whispered into his chest."I am so sorry I did not find you earlier" Kieran said feeling a bit down to see her like that. "Where does it hurt?" he asked pulling her away by the shoulders and then bending down to stare into her eyes. "All over" she responded groaning and pushing herself back to hold him. She had been so afraid especially when the men hit her without thinking about it, she was glad however that it had come to an end now. she sighed in his chest and closed her eyes in them. She knew it was because of Kieran this happened to her but how could she blame him? It was not his fault at the same time, Aurora had been crazy and could not learn to accept no as an answer and this was the result. Thye stayed glued together for
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"Seems like your family is coming," Kieran said as he led Arabella out of the lab to her room. "Coming here? Why?" she said, whipping her head around trying to check his face. "Stay still or you'll hurt your neck," he said, helping her turn her neck back so she could face forward. "Why?" she asked, wondering why her mother would take the journey out of her just because of a few bruises. "Maybe she is worried?" Kieran said with a teasing voice. "Are you teasing me?" she asked, pressing her lips together. He made a sound, showing that he was affirming her statement. "I do not think now is the time to do that," she replied. "Oh, please, there is always a time for teasing," he said.They were soon in the room; he helped her to the bed and went out to get something for her to eat so she could use her medications. By the time he got back from the convenience store down in the hospital basement, she was lying down on the bed. "Are you sleeping?" Kieran asked as he went to the head of t
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HeyyyyyI am so excited to write this after a long time and I hope you are too.I am also so grateful for the community of readers that I get here on this platform. Having Readers like this is such a dream come true. Thank you for loving my ideas and taking them as they are. Thank you for the corrections, especially with my grammar. If many of you notice you would see that I am improving as I try to take classes to make me write better in English. Thank you for being a great support to me and my work.It is because of you all that ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED became such a huge hit, I keep getting offers to have the work published in so many other places and I could not have done it without you. Sometimes I feel like a girl who had left her home for Hollywood and then suddenly became famous and began to win multiple awards... and as I say this is all thanks to you.So I have a couple of announcements and I think now is the time to share it.1. I wrote book two of Accidentally Married but unfo
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"Hana darling," Ava said as they got into the hospital room. They had not even stopped over at the house and had gone to the hospital directly. "Mom," Arabella said, sitting up on the bed and stretching out her hand so her mom could hug her from the door. Right behind Ava were Everly and Seraphina walking in as well. Everly shut the door behind her before they attracted any attention to them. "Ane," Arabella added as they walked to her. Ava went and stood beside the bed, holding Arabella in her arms wrapping her hand across her body, and holding as if she were about to let go forever. "Let me see," Ava says after letting go. She looked at her face and flinched at the sight of the injuries on her face and then touched her body to see where else she was hurt. "Does it hurt badly?" she followed up, checking her face over and over again. "I am fine," Arabella said. She was glad to see her mom, but she was worried that they had made an impromptu trip for this, and she was doing fine. S
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"Yes" Arabella responded. "Are you sure? Because I can go along with her," Seraphina volunteered."I am sure I am not in any unusual pain. After getting beat up like this, it is only natural that everything hurts, but I feel better because of the medications I have been given," Arabella tried to explain to ease their hearts. She had seen herself in the mirror, and she knew that she did not look her best at all, so that was what was worrying them. They stayed for a few minutes before Seraphina successfully lured Kieran out of the room, claiming she needed supplies and that he should help her with directions since she was bad at them even though she was an expert at directions. "Ane?" Arabella said, and Seraphina came close to her."Do you want me to buy something for you?" Seraphina asked, and Arabella nodded as she gestured for her to bend her head so she could whisper in her ears. "I know you are trying to take Kieran aside so you can grill him; I cannot stop you because of this
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"You and my sister?" Seraphina asked as they walked to the elevator. "What?!" Kieran asked, startled that they had been caught easily. "Don't worry, I am sure I was the only one who caught on. My mom is not an expert on things like this," Seraphina assured him. While she was in university, she had several relationships, and sometimes it was like her mom was intentionally trying to act dumb not to see them, but she was truly not trying to pay attention to things like that. "We are not trying to hide it""But now would not be a good time to discuss your relationship," Seraphina understood. She would do the same if she were in their shoes anyway. "The most important thing now is that Arabella recovers well and can go back to her daily life without any complications," she said. "That is true" Kieran added nodding his head."But I need to know," Seraphina said as the elevator stopped and opened and they got into it. "I need to know what happened. I can not wait till you are telling the
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"What's taking them such a long time?" Ava asked as she glanced at the door for the thirty-first time in the space of a minute. "They would be back soon; why are you so worried?" Arabella asked as she lay down in bed."Why shouldn't I be worried? I do not want to think about the bad luck that had been opened over my family as a result of this accident," Ava said. "Why would you say something like that? That is the kind of statement that can bring bad luck in." Ava opened her mouth to speak but before he could say anything, a doctor walked in. Both women stood up and waited for the man to go to Arabella. "How do you feel?" the doctor asked, checking her IV drip and then her face. "Still in pain but not as much as before.," Arabella said, staring at the doctor. "Okay, that is good." "Doctor, what about the result of the test?" Ava asked when the doctor did not say anything. She was fine even if the doctor ignored her and did not say hello; she just wanted to make sure that her dau
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"I am so happy for you," Ava said as she stood with Kieran and Arabella; they had just got married, and it was truly a joyous day. Kieran had been so quick with the preparations that it took them barely two months to put everything together. "I just couldn't believe that my little one had found love," she added, tears welling in here again."Mom, you need to stop crying; seeing you cry makes me cry as well," Arabella said, blinking back the tears. Her make-up artist had retouched her make-up multiple times because she knew she was getting annoying already, but she could not control the burst of emotions flowing from her body. "Mom," Seraphina said, coming from behind and putting her hand over the shoulders of her mother. "It is a happy day; why do you keep crying? Someone, I mistake you to be mourning." "I am just thinking of how proud your father would have been to witness today.""I am sure he is watching over us from above," Arabella said, holding her mom's hand tightly."Mom, let
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1 YEAR LATER Arabella was meeting Kieran after work; she had moved out because she was not comfortable with being there while dating him and had found herself a new job where she seemed to function much better. She was even on her way to write a book of her own. Kieran, who started a book publishing house solely for the money, now began to learn about this thing so he could help her out with the publication.She was glad that she had given in and tried to date him, or else she would never understand what this kind of relationship meant. Kieran was so attentive and made her feel like his entire world revolved around her. She learnt to drive and even bought her car.Sometimes she believed that he was going to propose to her because he would bring up discussions that centered around their future home, but then after that, it would be like they were back to base one. She liked base one, but she hated living all by herself. She wanted to move back in with him, and she wanted to begin havi
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"A trip?" Arabella asked, taking up the blanket and covering herself. "Yes, a couple's trip," he said, dropping the phone back on the table and walking to her. "What about work? Aren't you going to work again?" she asked. "Are you afraid that you would live broke?" he asked in a teasing tone."Of course I am," Arabella said before tilting her head. "I am jobless now; at least one of us needs to work so we can live a happy life," she added."You know that I do not mind you still thinking with us," Kieran said. After the trial, Arabella decided to stop working there even though Aurora was no longer there. How could she work there after everything that happened? She would be able to face her co-workers if that were the case. "I am sure I will get an offer soon from one of those companies," she said, and he sat beside her. "And you know you do not need to work again; I can take care of you and as many children as you want to have," he said with a wink. "Children?" she said flustered
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Arabella rolled over, and she landed right into Kieran's hands. She looked at him like it was an offence for her to do so. She peered at him and then covered her eyes with her hand. She could not believe what she had done over the night. If her mom heard she was going to give her a long lecture and then have her head afterwards. She looked at him, and she was tempted to trace her finger across his face in frustration. "Sleep so much more," she was startled to hear him talk as his mouth moved without even opening his eyes. "How long have you been awake?" She muttered, feeling shy that he had caught her staring so much that she could drill a hole into his face. "A while now," he said, his eyes framing open like a princess that was cast under a spell but was now liberated all of a sudden. He pulled her closer as he wished they could somehow get closer and maybe even mesh together. "Should we go home? Everly must be worried searching for us," Arabella murmured into his chest. He opene
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"Somewhere, like where?" she asked shyly, dropping her head so their eyes would not meet. "You would see," he said, lifting her head gently. "But we have to make sure that the ride ends first," he said, looking around. He had thought that they were going to have a moment there, but seeing how things turned out, he could not wait to be out of there. Finally, the ride was over, and he drove out of the amusement park to a hotel. "You brought me to a hotel?" she asked in shock as they drove into the underground parking lot. "Why?" she asked now that her tone was in a hushed whisper. "I told you we should come somewhere, and you agreed," he said as he drove by the cars looking for a place to park. "That was because I thought you said that we should go someplace nice," she muttered, looking around like they were sneaking around. "Why are you looking around like we are committing a sin?" he asked, noticing how uncomfortable she got. "It is not that...""Am I being clueless? Am I jumpin
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Kieran paid the operator to let the ride go in a loop three times, and Arabella wondered why he did that."Why?" she whispered to him."To have some alone time," he replied with the same wink from earlier. She gulped down hard, wondering what he was thinking.As the ride got into the tunnel, Arabella held the hand of Kieran tightly with her eyes closed. She had no time to think of what he might have meant with the wink and statements because the ride was definitely scarier than she had expected it to be. She looked at him when she felt his firm hand hold her face and turn it to him. "Are you scared?" he asked, dropping a kiss on her lip. "Kieran," she said in a hushed whisper as she looked around. "There is no one here, and I have been waiting all day just to get that," he said before dropping his head for another kiss. She placed her hand over her mouth because he could kiss her and therefore kissed the back of her hand. He took her hand from her mouth and began to drop multiple k
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Arabella could feel Kieran's excitement for the date, and she wondered why they got so lucky. They went on every ride in the park like they had been waiting to do this. Arabella was more proud of the fact that a handsome hunk named Kieran was with her. In every line, they heard murmurs of people talking about how handsome he was. She was not letting any of that bother her because she could disagree with them; he was a beauty to behold. She did not let the nasty comments, such as those criticising his choice, get to her. He glued to her like gum on the sole of a shoe, and it must have infuriated the crowd the more because of the kinds of dirty glances she received from them. Kieran was always pushing back her hair and staring at her while holding her hand tightly and dropping random kisses on her forehead. She was shy, but she liked how he marked his terror so openly. She was on a date, and she was going to try her best not to be affected by any of that. "Should we go there?" Kieran
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"Do you want to explain why you are here?" Kieran asked. Arabella had expected him to scream his lungs out, but he was wrong. Myabe's drive down has calmed him down. "It is a stupid reason; I don't want to tell you," Arabella murmured to herself. She had wanted to hear an apology so much that it felt like her self-worth depended on it. She turned her head to the side so she was looking out the window. "Look at me," Kieran said softly. "Look at me," he said again, this time turning her head with his hand gently. "I am so ashamed of myself; I don't know what I was thinking," Arabella said again. Seeing Kieran had somehow triggered something in her. It was like judging her actions without even saying anything. "Tell me, I want to know why you dressed up and left the house to come here when you should be resting.""Okay," she said as she heaved a sigh. "I wanted an apology so bad." "What?" "See, I knew you would judge me.""Ara, I am not judging you. I just want to understand what y
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"Why are you laughing?" Arabella was shocked. That was not the expression she was expecting from her. "Dearest Arabella, you must think the world revolves around you," she said, leaning in that she was seated at the edge of her seat. "Why do you think I would apologize to you? I did what I did, and I would do it again and again if need be.""You are not sorry for kidnapping and assaulting me even though you ended up here?" Arabella asked. "Of course, if I had the chance to, I would do it again. Can you imagine how hard I worked? I worked hard on Kieran, and you swooped in from nowhere and decided you wanted to take him from me. Oh, please, like you deserve him," Aurora said, leaning into the chair. "If you are here to ask me for an apology, I am afraid that you have to go back without one today and that you need not expect one from me," she said, looking at her nails like she had gotten a fresh set of nails. "Arabella, I think one of the problems you have is that you seem to overra
