Sleeping with the Sheikh. Brenda JacksonЧитать онлайн книгу.

      “You need to resume your life without me. You need to find someone who will care for you and our son. Someone who is deserving of your love.”

      “I don’t want anyone but you,” she said, warm tears now raining down her cheeks in a stream of sorrow.

      “You say that now, but you will change your mind once I am gone.”

      He pulled her tightly into his strong arms. If only Andi could absorb some of that strength. If only she could have foreseen where this would lead. In reality she’d known all along what would happen, that he would leave her again, but she had chosen to believe that somehow, some way, it would be different this time. That he might actually change his mind, that she would change his mind. How foolish she’d been.

      She had no choice but to claim the sadness, to accept defeat. But she didn’t know how to accept his leaving. “I don’t know how to let you go.”

      “You must.”

      She raised her head and looked at him straight-on, determined to try one more time to make him see things her way. “Even if you give up your wealth, your status, just look at what you’d be getting in return.”

      “How well I know this.”

      “Then why does it have to be this way? Why do you have to go? Why? And what is it you’re not telling me?”

      He remained silent for a moment before drawing in a deep, cleansing breath. “I am to marry another.”