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His stare was even more spectacular in close quarters “The deal was to drive hter “New deal, then”

“You have nothing to thank me for”

Now he answered her earlier thank you

“I wasn’t thanking you for saving ic reaction to that I was thanking you for lettingan aggravating superhero and insist on walking into the night alone”

After yet another long stare, he turned and exited the car

Her heart constricted with disappoint on hi, bad warrior would just have to use his endless stamina to put up with her concern

The ave that boo at the ER entrance, his pose worthy of the superhero she’d likened hiripping her bloody scarf

He aiting for her

She ran toward hi her feet

Before she reached him, those cruelly sensuous lips twitched Was that a smile? She wouldn’t know She’d never seen him smile

Before she couldto keep up with hi that her concern was needless And that he wouldn’t h

Once she knew he’d be okay, she’d show him exactly how much she’d put up with to be with him That, if he let her, she would follow hih the admission process, Rashid felt Laylah’s presence a breath away

He couldn’t take one without itwith the scent and heat of her body and her worry

He found hie hi that involuntary act turned out to be easier than stopping another supposedly voluntary one In spite of his intention to demonstrate that her presence was unnecessary as well as unis to a net When no one, certainly never a wo response

But Laylah Aal Shalaan wasn’t anyone There was no one else in the world that he reht when she was born, the first fe in the Aal Shalaan family in forty years It had only been a week after he’d met her un a friendship that had lasted for the next two decades

She’d grown up under his gaze, always in his orbit, glowing brighter every day with a radiance that had progressively disht it so unfair, for her to be so matchlessly beautiful on the outside, when she could possess no beauty at all on the inside Not when she was the daughter of a house of serpents

Now that she’d aze returned to her again and again, docu her every nuance Hair and eyes the color of the richest chocolate and brushed with sunlight, skin of honeyed velvet and warm sunsets, a body of lush vitality and femininity and a face of a peculiar brand of splendor and harmony But it hat those most unusual features radiated that perplexed hienuineness? The woman was descended from ruthless bitches and hardened criminals There was no way any of that could be real