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His throat worked.“Did she actually say those words?”
“This morning.”Stacy’s voice was gentle now.“But she doesn’t think you love her.So if you do, you’d better start convincing.”
His jaw flexed.A slow warmth unfurled in his chest, fierce and steady.She loved him.He felt ten feet tall.
And then—like fate itself was giving him a nudge—Tabitha stopped midsentence in her conversation across the room.Her gaze lifted, searching.And when her eyes locked with his, Ramzi saw it.
There it was.
That love.Shining back at him like a lighthouse in a storm.
He didn’t say goodbye.Didn’t explain.Didn’t even think.
He just started walking, never taking his eyes off her.
Because there was no one else in the world now.
Only Tabitha.
She waseverything.
Chapter 27
Tabitha’s heart pounded as Ramzi crossed the expanse of grass toward her.He was so tall, so impossibly handsome—he made every other man fade to dust.It wasn’t just his height or looks.It was the power in his stride.The integrity in his eyes.The quiet strength that hummed around him like a current.
Dear heaven,she thought,I love that man.
And somehow… sheknewhe loved her too.
It was in the way he walked.The unflinching focus in his gaze.The silent dare in his eyes that called her forward, challenging her to meet him halfway.
Her feet began to move.
He wasn’t speaking—but her heart heard him.Felt the pull.
But then—
“TABITHA!”
The scream cracked through the afternoon air, shrill and furious.
Tabitha turned toward the voice—and froze.
Leandra.
The woman stood twenty feet away, a kitchen knife raised over her head.Sunlight glinted off the blade as she charged, her expression twisted with rage.
No…!
The world slowed to a crawl.Tabitha tried to move—run,duck,anything—but her legs felt like stone.Someone shouted behind her, “Don’t you dare!”
Then—impact.
A massive force slammed into her from behind, knocking her off her feet.She crashed to the ground in a tangle of limbs, breath stolen from her lungs, ears ringing.Food splattered across the grass.A table tipped over nearby.
And something heavy—someone—was on top of her.
Ramzi!
