Chapter 410

• Taken aback by the question, Kate did not know how to answer. She could feel Ahsan’s dark eyes boring into her and knew what he was thinking—that she had callously married Farhan knowing that she would soon be a rich widow. It wasn’t true, of course, and as she thought of the man she had married a year ago, she suddenly relaxed and met the king’s gaze.
• "Yes, I loved him," she said honestly. She had not been in love with Farhan, but he had been like a big brother to her. He’d been the only person apart from her foster parents who had been prepared to give her a chance and accept her for the woman she had become, rather than the unhappy and rebellious teenager she had once been.
• She had met him fresh from the humiliation of being sacked from her first job as nanny to the Fitzroy children, and Farhan had believed her when she explained that, far from flirting with Giles Fitzroy, she had hated his revolting sexual innuendoes and his suggestion that she could improve her career prospects by sleeping with him. When she’d finally found the courage to accuse the balding, middle-aged barrister of sexual harassment, she’d been fired on the spot, and the furious Giles Fitzroy had insisted to his wife that it had been Kate who had wanted an affair. The story had quickly circulated among the Fitzroys’ social group, and her chances of finding another job had seemed non-existent until Farhan had chosen her over several other applicants to care for his baby son, explaining that he believed Kate would give Hazem the love and attention he would have received from his mother.