A Tycoon's Secret_A Billionaire Romance Novel by Avery Laval

Author:Avery Laval [Laval, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947834279
Publisher: Blue Crow Books
Published: 2018-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

9

Khalid wasn’t sure exactly why he’d rushed to Marissa’s aid when he’d seen her getting upset while talking to Nuriyah. He figured Nuriyah had said something to upset her, as Nuriyah had often infuriated him, and he wanted to dash to Marissa’s rescue. After Marissa had blistered him with her words in the trip up here, he wanted her to look at him with kindness again. Damn it, he wanted to earn her smile.

But as they bumped along in the Range Rover, navigating the sand and gravel trails that were the only way to reach the isolated beaches, he saw no smile. Just trepidation. Damn that wide-eyed face of hers.

“What’s wrong, Marissa?”

“Why did you do that?” she asked. Of course she couldn’t leave any subject unspoken. Of course he loved that about her.

“Do what?”

“Rescue me from Nuriyah?”

Khalid laughed at her choice of words. “First you tell me you could raise a baby all on your own, and now you need rescuing from a meek Rifaisi woman?”

“She’s hardly meek, as you surely know. And I didn’t need rescuing from her, exactly. I needed rescuing from the thought of a loveless marriage.”

Khalid said nothing. If only she could know how much the opposite frightened him.

“So tell me, once and for all,” Marissa pressed on. “Why did you show me that small kindness? Why did you lie to Nuriyah, desert your meeting, and whisk me away?”

Khalid lightened his foot on the gas as the road grew more and more uneven. He noticed that she was gripping the door handle tightly, but somehow managed to keep the rest of her body loose. She was a natural at off-road travel, he thought curiously. Lucky for her. Aside from the city and the major thoroughfares, the roads in Rifaisa were catch as catch can. There would be a lot of bumpy travel if they were married. Every day would be as off-kilter as this one.

“I lied to her because I can,” he said, deciding not to divulge these disorienting feelings until he could better understand them for himself. “It’s one of the perks of being a prince. I’m never wrong.”

Marissa looked at him hard. Then she seemed to let the subject go. “You’re wrong all the time,” she shot back. “It’s just that no one has the guts to tell you so.”

“Lucky I have you here, then, wouldn’t you say?”

Marissa practically growled, but there was good humor in his voice. “Lucky for you. Not so lucky for me.”

He laughed, and finally, finally, he realized the true reason he’d pulled her away today. Because he’d wanted to be alone with her. Would it be so bad? she’d asked him. And he was beginning to think maybe it would not.

“Anyway,” he said quickly, hoping she hadn’t noticed the flicker of recognition on his face, “I was ready to go to the beach, and I thought it was better if you were with me, rather than left to be interrogated by the old sheikh and his daughters. They’d have you confessing to our situation in minutes.

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