The Sheikh and the Virgin. KIM LAWRENCE
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where you came from, to have a place and people you identified with—to have roots. Then she pushed aside the wistful thought. She might not have roots, but at least she had her freedom, and no brother telling her how to live her life.
This wasn’t the first time Khalid had quoted his brother. It seemed to Beatrice that the biggest favour she could do Khalid was to get him out from under his brother’s thumb—though maybe it might not be as easy as she had first thought. It was never easy to break the habit of a lifetime, and thinking his brother’s opinion on any subject was the definitive one was clearly not a recent development.
There was an air-conditioned limo waiting to whisk them the short distance inside the walls of the palace compound, and Beatrice welcomed the luxury and brief respite from the heat.
‘Sir …’
The deferential manner everyone here adopted towards Khalid was going to take a bit of getting used to, Beatrice decided as she waited for this man to finish talking. She didn’t understand a word that was being said, though the manner of both the man and Khalid suggested urgency.
‘Is something wrong?’ she asked, when the older man bowed low and vanished down the long marble-floored corridor, which resembled the several other marble-floored corridors they had already walked along.
‘I’m afraid so,’ Khalid admitted with a rueful grimace. ‘There’s a problem with the new irrigation project up in the southern desert and they need me. Tariq is waiting.’
Beatrice placed a soothing hand on his shoulder. ‘Go, Khalid—I’ll be fine.’ Lost, but fine, she thought, looking down the seemingly endless corridor.
‘Really?’ Khalid smiled his gratitude. Still he hesitated. ‘I hate to leave you like this.’
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