Bound to the Sheikh: An ancient debt. A deathbed promise. A marriage of duty and obligation. Desire too strong to control. by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly [Connelly, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

“I need to speak with you,” Laurie’s face was as white as a sheet, and her hair, usually perfect these days, was loosely braided down her back. It was like the first time he’d met her. He stared at her with a sense of nostalgia.

“Did you go to the hospital?”

“Yes. Last night.” She frowned. “Fatima was thrilled. Of course.”

“I am pleased. What is it I can help you with now? A school you want to save?”

She smiled at him tartly and stepped closer, her hands wringing in front of her. “No.”

Something in her tone conveyed to him that this was a serious matter.

“Laurie, what has happened? Has someone upset you?”

She shot him a furious look. “Yes, frankly.”

“What? Who?”

“Your lover,” she spat.

Afida froze. It was not possible for Laurie to be jealous. He’d seen for himself how relaxed she was at the very idea of his relationship with May. A lesser man would have been offended by her lack of interest in him.

“Yes?” He prompted warily.

“I can accept her place in your life …”

“So long as I don’t touch you again?” He interjected softly.

“Yes.” She lifted her fingers to her temples and rubbed as though she could physically relieve her swimming head. “But I don’t want her speaking to my father.”

Afida froze. “To David? May is speaking to David?”

“In the garden. I was just jogging,” he looked down and noticed her outfit for the first time.

“You know we have a gym,” he interrupted, distracted momentarily by the way the lycra hugged her legs. “An excellent one.”

She waved a hand through the air, dismissing his comment. “And I saw them in the quince grove. May was laughing at something he’d said. I watched them for ten minutes. They looked like old friends.” Her eyes flashed with anger. “I know you don’t intend to give her up. I heard you say as much, and I know I don’t have the right to ask you to. But this is too much.”

He was tempted to point out how unusual it was that May’s interactions with David should upset her more than an affair with Afida, only he didn’t. It just served to underscore that she didn’t consider herself to have any claim on him. Her husband.

“Why does it upset you?” He said quietly.

“It’s disrespectful.”

“To you? This I find hard to believe. You’ve all but begged me to continue having an affair with the woman without batting an eyelid …”

“Yes. That’s between you and me, and you and her. My father cannot find out about us. He can’t know that this marriage is fake. I won’t have her make a fool of him the way she is of me.”

She had said way too much. In truth, she hadn’t even known she felt that way.

Afida’s face was dark. “I have had enough of this.” He spoke harshly. “Come with me.”

“Where are we…?” He paused at the door and fired a series of instructions in his own language to a servant. Laurie was picking up more and more of the language, yet she couldn’t catch even the gist of what he’d said.

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