exhaled hard. “Tell him you’re not! Tell him the truth.”
“I can’t.” Emmeline felt dangerously close to just losing it. It’d been such a difficult few weeks and she’d been so sure that she could turn things around, make it all right. But instead of things improving, they’d taken a dramatic turn for the worse. “I can’t. Not before Sheikh Al-Koury’s conference. It’d ruin everything.”
“But everything’s already ruined,” Hannah cried, her voice rising and then breaking. “You have no idea what’s happened—”
“I’m sorry, Hannah, I really am. But everything’s out of my control.”
“Your control. Your life. It’s always about you, isn’t it?”
“I didn’t mean it that way—”
“But you did mean to send me here in your place and you didn’t intend to come right away. You used me. Manipulated me. But how do you think I feel being trapped here, pretending to—” Hannah broke off abruptly.
The line went dead.
Hannah had hung up.
Emmeline stared at the phone, stunned. But what did she expect? She had done an amazing job of messing up Hannah’s life.
Makin had met briefly with his staff after leaving Hannah’s room and spent fifteen minutes in his office listening to updates from his various department managers before dismissing them all with a wave of his hand.
He couldn’t focus on the updates. His thoughts were elsewhere, back with Hannah in her room.
Telling Hannah about Alejandro’s accident had been far harder than he’d imagined. He hadn’t liked giving her bad news. It didn’t feel right. He’d never felt protective of her before, but he did now.
Maybe it was because she wasn’t well.
Maybe it was knowing she’d had her heart broken.
Maybe it’s because he was suddenly aware of her in a way he hadn’t been before.
Aware of her as a woman. Aware that she was very much a woman. A highly desirable woman. And that was a problem.
Mouth compressing, he rose from behind his desk, left his office and set off to meet the Kasbah’s director of security, who had promised to give him a tour of the guest wings and go over the security measures in place for the safety of their guests.
The tour was interrupted by a phone call with information that Alejandro was out of surgery and in recovery. He hadn’t woken yet, and while the prognosis was still grim, he’d at least survived the nine-hour operation. For Hannah’s sake, he was glad.
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