Chapter 428

Ahsan felt something tug at his insides. He had been a similar age to Kate when his mother had left Qubbah, and he had never forgotten how badly he had missed her. He’d been lucky that he still had his father, brother, and sisters around him, but Kate had had none.

He admitted grimly that he had convinced himself that she was a heartless golddigger because it suited him.It had been the only weapon at his disposal to fight his ferocious attraction to her. But what if he had been wrong about her? What if she really had adopted Hazem so that she could give him the love she had been denied during her childhood? It made his treatment of her seem even worse—particularly the way he had trapped her in a marriage she hadn’t wanted, simply because of his selfish determination to take her to bed.

"You told my father that you loved Farhan," he muttered, voicing the thought that had been gnawing at him. But you must have been lying. Because I proved conclusively last night that you were never a pr