Sold To The Sheikh: His Indecent Proposal (An Interracial Sheikh Romance Novel) (16 page)

“No, I want you to meet
her,” Rami said, giving her hand a squeeze as he led her through
the front door. Mia brushed imaginary lint from her blouse,
worrying her bottom lip. “Where is my mother?” Rami directed the
question to a waiting member of the domestic staff, who was dressed
in livery nicer than anything Mia had owned before meeting Rami.
The aide pointed up the stairs.

Rami led Mia up the grand
staircase and down a long hallway to what must be his mother’s
room. Mia took a deep breath as Rami knocked and then opened the
door. “Mother? Mother, it’s Rami. I need to tell you
something.”

Mia stopped short as a
woman appeared, stepping through a pair of French doors leading to
another room. She was beautiful: ink-black hair, huge, dark eyes,
and a body that appeared so lush and toned Mia assumed it must been
under more than one surgeon’s knife. The older woman wore a long,
dark purple dress, sandals, and full makeup.

“Who is this?” The woman
asked, pointing to Mia.

“Mother,” Rami said,
smiling slightly—looking perhaps half as nervous as Mia felt. “This
is Mia Campbell. She is my fiancée, and she will be the mother of
my child.” The woman’s eyes widened, and her exquisitely groomed
eyebrows knit together.

“That is impossible,” she
said, and Mia noticed the woman’s voice becoming sharp. “Campbell?
That is a common name. You are a prince.”

“Mother, I love her,” Rami
insisted. “She is the mother of my future child. I am going to
marry her. I am never going to be in the line of succession anyway;
what does it matter who I marry?”

“You are correct that you
will never be in the line of succession,” Rami’s mother said
bitterly. “If you marry this girl, we will disown you.”

“Disown me! What do you
mean? What are you saying, Mother?”

“She’s not a suitable wife
for a prince, Rami. You will not marry her. Even if you are not
your father’s true son, neither of us will allow you to sully the
family’s name by marrying a commoner like this.”

“What do you mean, not my
father’s true son?”

“We never wanted you to
find out like this, but you were adopted. You only have our name by
grace, and if you do not obey us in the matter of your marriage,
you will forfeit any right to keep it.”

Mia looked from Rami’s
heartbroken face to his mother’s, feeling as though someone had cut
her legs off at the knees. Her head spun and her heart pounded in
her chest; she felt the world become more and more distant,
darkness swirling all around her. Mia wondered how she could
possibly be party to such wonderful news and such terrible news all
in the same day…

Holly Rayner

The sequel to this story
will be available soon!

Other books by Holly
Rayner:

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One
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The Billionaire's First Christmas - Contemporary
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