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“I should…let go I mean” But her body made no effort to move backward

He laughed “My name is Sebastian Hawk”

Ulp His laughter sent shivers through her as she found herself eous smile that accompanied it Okay, so she’d survived a close encounter with his smile, but wasn’t so sure about her mental faculties

This ht processes

“And you are?”

Right Very bad for normal brain activity

“Oh, I’m Lina Marwan” She never used her complete name Lina bin Fahd al Marwan anymore

“It’s a pleasure to ently set her away from him

She had to fight the urge to press forward and reconnect Was this what it felt like to be attracted to a lad she’d spent her teen years at an all-girls school Unlike her classmates, she’d never had the opportunity to spend ti school breaks Her family kept too close of tabs on her for that

In the year and a half since she caed a couple of boys, friends she met in her secret pursuits, but they’d never affected her like Sebastian Hawk She’d alanted to knohat it was like to kiss a boy, but only in the abstract Now she wanted to know the very concrete reality of kissing Sebastian Hawk

The craving was so strong, her lips twitched Sebastian’s gray gaze was knowing—as if he could read the unfah her

The tower clock chimed the quarter hour across the quad and Lina’s body jolted with memory

“Shoot I’n up for the kayaking trip” She still hadn’t worked out couard and fao on this trip

“You kayak?” Sebastian asked in a surprised tone

“It’s one of o as often as I like” She started walking briskly toward the University Center

He kept pace with her “When did you learn?”

“In high school” There were benefits to being the fe

Sure, at first, when she’d been sent away frorown older, she’d realized her parents’ lack of interest in her daily life was to her benefit They were very conservative and that attitude influenced their Ae of six

However, she still hadwith her relatives than she would ever have had at hootten her first taste of real freedorade The exclusive, all-girls prep school was far froh schools, but she’d been allowed to do things there she would never have been able to do when living with fa

“I see I thought the kayaking trip was a three-day getaway”

“It is Are you going?” she asked, unable to stifle the hope in her gaze as her eyes remained locked with those of the tall, dark-haired hunk

She felt the sa in a race Man, this being attracted to a guy thing was nothing like she’d expected it to be It was al a kayak out on white water Maybe even more so

Hawk had to bite down on an ugly four-letter word

The diminutive princess was just full of surprises The first had been when he’d seen his newest charge hurrying across the quad when she was supposed to be safely ensconced in the library studying with a sroup of female friends The plan had been for hie to “bump into” the princess on her way out of the library later

It was a good thing he’d seen her, or he would have been just as ignorant of her true whereabouts as her hapless guard The ations

“I don’t kayak,” he said to her, “but I’d like to learn” Which was a total lie He had no desire to learn, but he had experienced canoeing Even if it wasn’t his favorite thing, it was close enough to the other that he was confident he wouldof himself on the water

A n close to Princess Lina bin Fahd al Marwan

Her set a chance to sign up for the trip”