Liz Fielding – The Sheikh's Convenient Princess (страница 9)

He’d already gone far deeper than social media, was certain that she had not been born Ruby Dance, and the less he found the more suspicious he would become.

She unstuck her tongue from the roof of her mouth and said, ‘I changed my name for family reasons.’

‘A clause in a will? Your mother remarried?’ he suggested.

She shook her head. He was dangling easy answers before her. Testing her. ‘There was a scandal involving my father. Newspaper headlines. Reporters digging around in dustbins and paying the neighbours for gossip.’

He raised an eyebrow, inviting her to continue.

‘Amanda Garland knows my history,’ she said, ‘and her reputation stands on trust.’

‘Trust her, trust you—is that the deal?’

Her throat was dry and the juice gleamed enticingly but she resisted the urge to grab for it, swallow a mouthful. ‘That’s the deal.’

‘And that’s why you continue to temp rather than accept a permanent job? For the anonymity?’

‘Yes...’ The word stuck like a lump of wood in her throat.

‘Where is your father now, Ruby?’

‘He’s dead. He and my mother died when I was seventeen.’

‘Do you have any other family?’

‘No.’ She shook her head. ‘I was the only child of only children.’ At least as far as she knew. Her father might have had a dozen children...

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