"I love you," she whispered, her stomach hollow and knotted with pain. Mischa Busnetsky breathed as though he had been struck and silently bent to bury his mouth in her trembling palm.
The sound of a stifled cough several floors below travelled clearly in the silence. The secret shadow, their watchdog, waiting in the warmth for his quarry to reappear.
Mischa raised his head and caught her gaze. "Not as we would make it," he repeated, and he smiled at her as he might have smiled at his own death.
She would not protest at what could not be changed. Smiling back at him in salute and farewell Laddy took her hand from his and turned and walked slowly down the stairs to her waiting father.
The next day the art exhibition was closed by the secret police.
A month later Mischa Busnetsky was in prison again, for "possession of anti-Soviet propaganda."
Meet Alexandra Sellers
Alexandra Sellers is the author of the award-winning Sons of the Desert series. She has written over two million words for print, including 40 romantic novels. She is the recipient of the Romantic Times' Career Achievement Award for Series (2009) and for Series Romantic Fantasy (2000). Her novels have been translated into over 15 languages. She divides her time between London, Crete and Vancouver.
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eBooks by Alexandra Sellers
Captive of Desire
Fire in the Wind
Sons of the Desert mini-series
Bride of the Sheikh
Sheikh's Ransom
The Solitary Sheikh
Beloved Sheikh
Sheikh's Honor
Sheikh's Temptation
The Sultan's Heir
Undercover Sultan
Sleeping with the Sultan
Sheikh's Woman
The Playboy Sheikh
Sheikh's Castaway
The Ice Maiden's Sheikh
The Fierce and Tender Sheikh
Sheikh's Betrayal
Sheikh of Ice (novella) in Sheiks of Summer anthology
Silhouette Intimate Moments
Roughneck
Dearest Enemy
Wife on Demand
Born Royal (Book Six of the Firstborn Sons)
Silhouette Desire and Yours Truly
A Nice Girl Like You
Shotgun Wedding
Not Without a Wife
Occupation: Millionaire
Occupation: Casanova
Coming soon in eBooks
Poor Little Rich Girl's Sheikh
Also
The Indifferent Heart
The Forever Kind
The Real Man
The Male Chauvinist
The Best of Friends
A Gentleman and a Scholar
The Vagabond
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