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"And none of this is your choice to make" She dropped her arer she knew she should be feeling
She was tired of arguing with hi to force hie, would you come between Abram and asped as she turned on hie wasn’t surprised in the least that he had attempted such emotional blackmail It was reminiscent of her childhood years when he had used her eet what he wanted every time she attempted to defy him
"Would you really lose me over this?" she asked in return "Because that’s ill happen if you keep standing me and Abram Whether or not he wants me, or I want him, shouldn’t be tainted by your demands that we stay away from each other Because honestly, Khalid, there have been tiDo you really want to chance that in this situation?"
"So I’m to just stand by and watch him break your heart when he becoate you as we both knoill? He hts on the surface, Paige, but trust me when I tell you that only in your sexuality will he beHe is still a product of the culture he was raised within"
Paige could only stare back at him incredulously "How little you know your brother, or your sister for that ether "Does he beat his women, Khalid? Does he lock them up, or demand that they have no life outside of him? Does he have six wives and twelve children that I know nothing about?"
Khalid’s frown deepened "You knoould never do such things"
"Then your only objection is that you’re worried Abraet theof the word independence," he told her
"Has Leyla forgotten the independence you taught her?" Leyla was one of the six young women Khalid had raised after his father sent theht and then given to his son to begin his own little hare man who had come to America with his parents froer than Abrae? Abrarown man who has spent much of his life in the Middle East Aatwith the list of objections he was repeating from earlier "You say Abram would attempt to make me live by his rules? What the hell do you believe you’re doing? You’re trying to force me to do what you want, whether it’s what I want or not"
And that was beginning to piss her off She had tried to avoid these confrontations for the past few days Several times she had simply left the roou to protect you," he snarled His frustration was readily apparent but she couldn’t ree to disagree
"Go to your party, Khalid I’mental attitude Now leave e turned and sto the door behind her
Then, the tears she’d only barely held back filled her eyes and began to fall down her cheeks She didn’t sob She re her hands to her lips and tried to stop the tears as she had so many times in the past
She loved her brother Khalid had always been a mainstay in her life, even if he had frustrated the hell out of her He’d been amused at her father’s nerves when she rode her bicycle without training wheels, and laughed at her ot her driver’s license
He had always acted dah, despite the fact that Abrae had e had been drawn to Abram from the first moment She’d been fascinated by this man who looked so much like her brother, who her brother called a brother, yet he wasn’t her brother She’d only been nine when she first met him, and he’d been nineteen and already married
The relationship between him and his brother had at first confused the hell out of her After all, Khalid was her brother, so asn’t Abram?
That confusion had amused her parents and Abram’s wife Lessa, but Khalid hadn’t seee liked Abrahter and her quiet manner the few times she’d been able to spend any tie e’s heart had broken for Abram
He’d loved his wife, there had been no doubt of it Over the next few years, he’d been a regular in her life He’d visited when her family vacationed in Cairo, and joined Khalid in Greece when he returned for their s suddenly changed, when he had looked at her for the first tiaze had flicked to her breasts, encased in the bodice of the strapless ball gown she had worn
He had danced with her, his hand riding low on her back and pressing her closer to hier men she had danced with had done
Her heart had raced so hard she had thought it would tear from her chest He’d stared down at her, so her eyes as she swore she saw soainst her hip, hard and thick, she had felt his erection, proof that he was seeing her as a wo through her
It was the first time she had creamed her panties The first time her clit had become so swollen and sensitive that it only took her seconds to coht
Froet him out of her mind, or her fantasies She hadn’t even tried to keep hi her heart as the years went by
Khalid was equally deter between thee had been deter any relationship to develop too far, still, Khalid had begun arranging Abra hi had ever stereith each year, with each e to alienate her rather than see her with Abra quietly she wiped at the tears and tried to ste to end up saying things that couldn’t be taken back