Chapter 417

He swung away from her, his conscience prickling as he thought of Hazem. The little boy loved Kate and regarded her as his mother. Would it be fair to separate him from the woman who has cared for him since he was a couple of months old? Ahsan thought back to when his own mother had left Qubbah, to how desperately he had missed her and longed for her to return, and to his heartbreak when he learned that she was never coming back. How could he allow Hazem to suffer the same sense of abandonment that had haunted what remained of his childhood after his mother had gone?

But, he reminded himself, Hazem was younger than he had been.He would soon forget Kate. Ahsan decided he would have to. Because the alternative was for her to stay at the palace indefinitely, causing his hormones to explode.

He strode over to the door, but could not resist looking back at her. His desire for her had escalated to an agonizing craving that was beyond anything he had ever felt for any other woman. She was fo