He chuckled, then eyed her naked breasts, which were exposed, the dusky nipples visible above the bubbles. “Or perhaps we should get carried away.” He stood and held his hand out to her. “Come, my love, I’m eager for a taste of my soon-to-be bride.”

Chapter Thirty-Four

“I don’t understand why you have to get married so quickly,” Yasmin’s mother said, her tone pleading, her face creased with worry. “Don’t you think you’re rushing into things with a man you barely know?”

Volkan’s private jet had flown in that morning with her parents aboard. They would attend the wedding in two days’ time. Yasmin had brought her mother up to their suite for refreshments while Volkan took her father to the garage to show him the family’s vehicle collection. Her father had been dazzled when Volkan had sent the Ferrari to pick them up from the airport.

A shaft of pain pierced Yasmin’s heart as she suppressed the desperate desire to explain the real situation behind her rush to the altar. Yasmin tried to placate her mother without lying. “Volkan wants to get married quickly. He says we have our whole lives to get to know each other.”

“That explains his behaviour, but not yours,” her mother chided. “You’ve always been the more conservative of our children. Your sister is crazy and wild. You were our steady, dependable daughter.”

Ouch. Meaning she was no longer the steady, dependable daughter. Silently cursing Volkan yet again, she said, “I’ve thought this through, Mom. I’m not jumping blindly into something.”

“But a couple of weeks isn’t long enough to get to know a person.”

“Has your daughter not told you?” Volkan said as he walked into the room, Yasmin’s father at his side. “We’ve known each other for months, not weeks. We met four months ago at the hotel she worked at. It was love at first sight for me, but she took a little more convincing.”

Her mother turned an accusing look on Yasmin. “You didn’t tell us there was someone in your life! You’ve always been so secretive about this sort of thing, so I suppose I’m not surprised.” She seemed relieved, but a frown still creased her brow. “That doesn’t explain how you were both in London at the same time, or how Yasmin came to leave the employ of Dr. Ryan.”

Yasmin had enough of dancing on hot coals trying to explain the unexplainable to her family. Instead, she stared hard at Volkan, silently telling him it was his turn to step up and explain her kidnapping in a way that wouldn’t send her parents running to the nearest police station.