The Sheikh's Priceless Baby by Holly Rayner

Author:Holly Rayner [Rayner, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Faye

Dinner passed entirely too quickly, and before I knew it, Aziz was yawning hugely and calling for the bill, his eyes half closed with fatigue.

“It must kill your body to be traveling so much,” I said, looking up at him with concern as we left the restaurant. “And always in a different time zone. I don’t know how you handle it. When I get home from a trip, it takes me weeks to feel like I get back on the right time. But you probably get to a new place and have to jump right in, huh?”

“You get used to it,” he said with a shrug. “And once I’m on a site, I’m usually there for long enough to get used to the time zone and actually live a normal life for a while. I mean, if you call working fifteen hours a day and hanging out with only men a normal life.”

“Well,” I said, frowning, “it doesn’t seem like any way to live life. Not in the long term, at least.”

He jerked to a stop, stopping me with him, courtesy of our joined hands, and gave me the longest, oddest look possible—as if there were about three million things he wanted to say, and he couldn’t figure out how to put a single one into actual words.

“What?” I asked, confused. Had I said something wrong?

“I do want to settle down, someday,” he said finally, thoroughly shocking me. Then he gave me a crooked smile. “Keep that a secret, though, as I’d hate for my mother to find out. I can’t have her thinking she’s been right this whole time!”

We got into the car he had waiting for us laughing at that, but behind my laughter, I felt something else. Something that felt a whole lot like an idea. Not a plan, precisely, but more like… a glimmering, shimmering thought. One that was so thin and slippery that I couldn’t see it straight on, or even grab onto it. Every time I tried, it slithered away from me like a piece of tissue paper in the wind.

But I knew it was there. And I knew it made me feel sort of warm and tingly inside.

So when we got into the car, I snuggled up against him in the back seat, soaking in his warmth and strength and smell and storing it away for after he was gone, knowing that I’d want to remember this moment—and knowing that at some point, I’d be able to grab that idea that was floating around in my head and actually look at it.

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