Chapter 403

• He waited for Kate to absorb his words, noting how the color had drained from her face. She looked very young, and that air of innocence was very convincing. It was easy to see how she had fooled Farhan three years ago, when he had been a grieving widower with a baby son. "Hell, she had almost fooled him," Ahsan mused grimly. But the information his personal assistant had emailed him after running a data check revealed things about her that he was sure his brother knew nothing about. Things like a shoplifting conviction and details about a life that had spiraled out of control—until she was fostered by an elderly couple who took her to their home in the caretaker's cottage on the grounds of Ingledean House.
• There she had managed to catch up on her education and had trained as a nanny, but more controversy followed with her first job, looking after the children of a respected barrister and landowner at his country estate on the outskirts of York. Zaid had unearthed talk of an affair between Kate and Giles Fitzroy. It was rumored that she had pursued her wealthy employer in the hope that he would leave his wife for her, but that eventually Fitzroy had come to his senses and dismissed her. Soon after that, Farhan had bought Ingledean and taken Kate on as Hazem’s nanny.
• His brother must have seemed like a gift from the gods, Ahsan thought darkly—a rich man without the complication of a wife. Kate had no doubt seized the opportunity to ingratiate herself with Farhan and his motherless son.