Their Dubai Marriage Makeover by Louise Fuller

Author:Louise Fuller [Fuller, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-15T15:46:21+00:00

Gazing down at the tops of the palm trees as the helicopter rose up into the night sky, Delphi took a small, panicky breath. The smell of the leather upholstery reminded her so much of the tack room at the ranch that she felt almost faint.

Not that the man sitting beside her cared.

She turned to look at the dark-eyed, astonishingly handsome stranger who was also her husband. Her very angry, single-minded husband.

‘Where are we going?’

He didn’t turn to look at her. ‘It’s a place in the hills. About twenty minutes from here.’

She didn’t know what to say to that. Right now, she felt as if she had said everything that could be said. Only it wasn’t enough for Omar.

How could it be?

A pang of guilt pinched inside her chest. Whatever he might have accused her of, she hadn’t planned on telling him about the miscarriage today, at his father’s birthday party, surrounded by his family and friends. But then Jalila had brought over Khalid, and it had brought it all back, and the walls she had carefully built around herself to contain the hurt and pain had fallen away like petals on the wind.

Watching Omar hold the baby, seeing his fierce, brooding focus on Khalid’s sweet face, had almost made her double over. Was that what their baby would have looked like too? The answer to that question had made it impossible for her to stand there another moment, and so she had done what she always did when things hurt and scared her.

She had run.

And, because he was Omar, he couldn’t not follow. And, because he was Omar, by the time he’d caught up with her, he’d already known what question to ask.

The one she had decided nearly seven weeks ago never to answer.

And she knew that was unfair, and selfish and wrong, but the moment when it would have been possible had passed nearly seven weeks ago, in that gleaming anonymous bathroom in London. Then she had wanted him so badly it had hurt almost as much as the cramps.

Afterwards, she had thought she had no words for what had happened. No words to express the aching sense of loss and despair, the bruising emptiness.

Her throat tightened.

But in the end, all it had taken was four. ‘I had a miscarriage.’

It was the first time she had said it out loud, and it had been a shock saying it, hearing it. Maybe that was why she was still reeling inside. That and watching Omar’s face lose colour and stiffen with shock and pain.

She could still see his expression now; he had looked shattered.

Closing her eyes, Delphi leaned back in her seat. She didn’t want to think about Omar’s pain. It was more than she could manage when she still hadn’t come to terms with her own.

For weeks now the terrible dark memory of that day had been there, keening and scrabbling at the back of her mind to be let in. But she had kept it at bay—taking on

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