Desert King's Surprise Love-Child by Cathy Williams

Author:Cathy Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-09-13T18:46:39+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE SILKY SOFTNESS of his words washed over her, as seductive as an embrace.

What had she thought might happen when she had decided to tell him about Tilly? Not this.

And yet, if she backtracked to that very first moment when she had seen him standing in that room, with his back to her, bodyguards by the door, a tall, dominant figure, a prince...the process of working out just where everything would lead should have begun.

She’d told him that she’d said goodbye to naiveté the minute she’d found out that she was pregnant. You had to wise up very fast, as a single mother, to cope with the demands of parenthood without any support and particularly without the support of the father because he’d done a runner, vanished without a forwarding address.

So what if he was a prince? she had thought when they’d been unexpectedly reunited. She would do what she had to do, do the right and decent thing, and if he wanted some kind of contact with his child going forward, then she would be happy to accommodate him.

On every count, she had completely misjudged the situation.

Had she really thought that she would have emotionally recovered from the devastating effect he had had on her? He’d been in her head pretty much every day for four years. That in itself should have been a vital clue telling her that he was still dangerous when it came to her emotions, yet she had turned a blind eye to that peril and bought into the illusion that she would be able to handle whatever was thrown at her. She had thought that it would be easy because at the end of the day, as Tilly’s mother, she would always have the last word.

But Abbas Hussein was a crown prince, which made having the last word a great deal trickier. He was a man of honour and duty and those qualities had come to the fore in his unhesitating response to the situation he had faced.

Surprising? Maybe not. He might have walked away from her all those years ago—and she could almost, almost follow his logic in doing that—but the truth was that she would never have fallen in love with someone who wasn’t decent and honourable.

And that decent and honourable man wanted, of course, to do the decent and honourable thing.

Like finding herself in a maze, she could now look over her shoulder and see that every step she took would inevitably lead her to where she was now even though she’d imagined herself to be completely lost during the journey.

He’d laid out his reasons for marriage with a level-headed logic that characterised this new Abe that she was starting to get to know. He’d shown her, in small steps, just how willing he was to involve himself in Tilly’s life, to incorporate her into his magnificent royal world, even though he had never asked for her to be born.

He had been thoughtful and patient in his handling of the

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