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“I could see your potential from the time you were six I knew your beauty would becos would fall at your feet I was right The list of the royals who have begged for your hand is as tall as you are”
She cast a deprecating glance down her body While not short, she was the shortest in her family at five foot six “Not really tall, with a sum total of seven such ‘royals’ And none was afterconnections’”
“If that was true, then the only explanation is that they’re not into women What heterosexual male would not want you?”
“Uhoff the top of ht such males”
He shook his head “Your relatives don’t count”
But she hadn’t counted as a desirable female to any man that she knew of Whatever her personal assets, they’d always been nullified by her family’s Men had either wanted her, or hadn’t wanted her, based on those Not that she’d ever cared Not when Rashid was the onlyfrom the feet tucked beneath her to her face, felt like a full-body caress “It al that’s a compliment”
“It’s the truth” He was suddenly on his knees, facing her on the mattress “You’re an impossibility I don’t believe in perfection, but here you are, against everything I believe And against anything I can believe, you say you want ht her up on her knees, too, looking fervently up at hiripping his face deepened “You said I defined perfection to you So now I ask—how? What is it about me that you ever found perfect, let alone now?”
A drop of water streaked down his chest and caught in the groove of his scar, aze up to his “It would be easier to count the things I don’t find perfect about you Like how you were always so distant, as if in a world of your own But then, that’s not an i in to the need, her fingertips swept a treht not be perfect per se But you are perfect to e hand covered hers, pressed it to his six pack of steel “I had time to reconsider in the shower”
Oh, no! He’d say he’d lost his head under her teain and end this Then in the ain
But she’d taken this as far as she could Anything he decided now, she had to abide by
She waited for his verdict, her teeth starting to chatter
His eyebrows furrowed as he documented her reaction “Whatever I said before, you e your mind You’re free to reconsider”
The letdown felt like the two-floors’-worth fall froritted her teeth on a sob that almost escaped, forced steadiness in her voice “If you want to take back everything you said, you feel free You don’t have to let me down easy”
His eyes narrowed “You mean you still feel the same way?”
Her shoulders slumped “It’s not important what I feel”