Unworthy Of You by Parker Ali

Author:Parker, Ali [Parker, Ali]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2019-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Standing in front of the council was a lot different than any other time. Usually, it was Father who stood there while I watched. I kept my face impassive as they asked me the customary question about why I graced them with my presence.

Stepping forward, the room tilted slightly, but I didn’t falter. I looked each of them in the eyes and then told them that I would accept the position as the new king.

Chapter 47

Luke

A month had passed since accepting the role of the king in my home country of Qatar, but my hands still moved automatically to adjust the phantom tie at my neck. For years working in England at my family’s oil business, it was rare that I went to work without a tie. It was rare that I didn’t go to work in general.

With any thoughts of England came the influx of memories of the one woman who I would have stayed there for. I would have given up all of my father’s hopes for me to become king if only she had felt the same for me as I did for her.

I shook away all thoughts of Sophia as I tried to do every single morning. Even after some time had passed, she was still lodged firmly in my mind. I wanted to know what she was up to, if she finally wrote the story that she’d come to England and Qatar to write, and most of all, if she was happy.

When she left me the first time, I had flipped around and become the stalker that she had been to me when she was hungry for the story. But this time, I couldn’t bear to see what she wrote about me for the Dallas Post. Whether her thoughts were negative or positive, either would draw me back into that part of me that I’d been trying to hide. I hoped with time, the twisted feeling in my gut at the thought of her would go away completely.

Looking at myself in the mirror, I still didn’t see a king.

The only king I knew was my adoptive father. Ever since I had met him, I always pictured him when I heard the word “king.” I felt like an impostor, struggling to fill his enormous shoes. The other council members had accepted me due to my insistence that Father wanted me to take the role, but I knew they would have preferred my sixteen-year-old brother Abir instead. He had a gentle demeanor that could be bent to their will.

With Abir not wanting to be king and Mother and Father’s insistence that I take the throne, I had no other choice. At least, I didn’t see one. The only way I could have kept Sophia in my life was for her to stay with me, but I wouldn’t force anyone else into the position like I had been.

I let out a grunt, annoyed that Sophia had crept into my thoughts again.

I left my bathroom and headed into the main area of my bedroom.

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