The Sheikh's Guarded Heart. Liz Fielding

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      For a moment every muscle, every sinew, every bone, complained and it was touch and go whether the table would fall or she would.

      She didn’t have a hand to spare to catch the painkillers as they spilled on to the floor, or the glass which followed them, toppling over, spilling water as it spun before falling on to the beautiful silk carpet. Then the bell succumbed to gravity, landing with a discordant clang, followed by the crash of the telephone.

      There was nothing she could do about any of it; all she could do was hold on tight and pray.

      Apparently that was enough.

      After a moment the room stopped going round and, since she wasn’t sure what would happen if she put her weight on her damaged ankle, she used her good one to hop across the room, hanging on to the table, the wall, the door, jarring every bone in her body, but gritting her teeth, refusing to give up.

      Once she reached the door, however, she was on her own. It seemed an unbridgeable distance to the basin, but she wasn’t about to give up now and, with desperate lurch, she reached her goal.

      It was only when she finally recovered her breath sufficiently to turn and confront her reflection, that she realised all her effort had been for nothing.

      There had once been a mirror over the basin—the fittings were there—but it had been removed.

      Did she look that bad?

      Without warning her legs buckled beneath her and, still hanging on to the basin, she crumpled up in a heap on the floor. For a moment she sat there in shock. Then, as she tried to move, haul herself back up, she discovered that she hadn’t got the strength to do it, which left her with two choices.

      She could shout for help or crawl back to bed on her hands and knees.

      She was still trying to get herself up on to her knees when Han folded himself up beside her.

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