Meredith Webber - A Wife For The Surgeon Sheikh

To hold her, tell her it would all work out.

To hold her?

Get your mind back on the job .

But guilt at how he’d hurt her with his words made him reach out and touch one small, cold hand, where it lay in her lap.

‘I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have threatened you like that—you look exhausted, and all this has been a shock to you. No one should make decisions when they’re tired, but there’s a way out of this for all of us. Don’t answer now, we will talk again in the morning. I shall phone your Mr Marshall and explain you won’t be in to work.’

But she’d obviously stopped listening earlier in his conversation.

‘A way out for all of us?’ she asked, looking at him with a thousand questions in her lovely eyes.

‘Of course,’ he told her, and felt a small spurt of unexpected excitement even thinking about his solution.

‘We shall get married,’ he announced. ‘That way Nim is both of ours and will be doubly protected.’

Her eyes had widened and although he hadn’t thought she could get any paler, she was now sheet-white.

But she stood up, and for a moment he thought she might physically attack him, but in the end she glared at him and said, ‘You must be mad!’ before turning towards the kitchen.

‘Peter, your customer is ready to leave,’ she called, before disappearing down the passage, presumably into her bedroom.

As his driver appeared, with Joe looming behind him, Malik realised there was no point in arguing, but the idea, which had come to him out of nowhere, was brilliant.

All he had to do was convince Lauren.

Her name rolled a little on his tongue and, inside his head, he tried it out a few times.

He said goodnight to Joe, and followed Peter out to the car, but his mind, for once, was not on Nimr, but on the woman he’d decided to marry...

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