The Sheikh by Anne Herries

Author:Anne Herries [Herries, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781460856468
Google: U3BdiGP5geYC
Goodreads: 1237736
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2001-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

The back seat of Pasha’s car was filled with baskets of fruit and fresh vegetables when they arrived back later that day. Chloe was feeling happy and relaxed as she carried two of the heavy baskets into the house.

It had been fun walking around the colourful market in the warm sunshine, and she had enjoyed the haggling as much as Pasha. She had bought him a soft Moroccan leather belt, and he had bought her a fine gold bangle engraved with Arabic signs which he told her were a message of love, which he had promised to explain later.

The woman Pasha employed had been in while they were out to clean the house, and a meal had been prepared for them—rice, fish and salad. All Chloe had to do was bring it to the table.

She spent some time unpacking their baskets, then decided to ask Pasha whether he wanted to eat inside or out. On a warm evening like this it was pleasant to take their food outside and have it on the patio.

Pasha should have been in by now. It usually took him only a moment to lock the gates and put the car away into the cool of the garage at the side. She went to the back door to call him, halting in surprise as she saw that he was talking to two men. Before she could decide what to do, the men turned and walked away.

Something seemed familiar about one of them, and she frowned as she tried to remember where she had seen him before, but the memory eluded her. She didn’t think that either of the men were Spanish locals; they had looked as if they might be Arabs. Of course there had been a Moorish influence in this part of Spain for years, and some of the local people could be mistaken for Arabs—but these two had looked as if they would be more at home in the city.

‘Who were they?’ she asked anxiously as Pasha came to her. ‘What did they want?’

‘Nothing important,’ he replied. ‘They work for me sometimes—it was business. I was giving final instructions about something.’

Chloe nodded. This was the part of Pasha’s life that he did not wish to tell her about. She felt a little shut out, wishing that he would share his thoughts with her. She wasn’t a child to be protected from everything but the pleasant things in life, but she didn’t really know him very well yet and she wasn’t confident enough to insist that she be told what kind of business the men were involved in.

She had an odd prickling sensation at the nape of her neck, and something told her that she might not like what Pasha had to say if he did tell her. There was, she sensed, a darker side to his nature, and she was a little afraid to inquire too deeply in case she did not care for what she discovered.

‘Why so thoughtful?’ he asked, and she shook her head.

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