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“God, I ins”
The teasing in his eyes intensified “Tuaregs can’t be called Arabs They call thee that has nothing in coht lueneral direction into one basket Back home, a lot of people consider all white people ‘Americans’”
“I’m sure that’s not true of those above a certain education level People withso oblivious and norant about your part of the world”
“I will teach you Everything you want to know”
And she’d bet he didn’t ion and its various cultures and peoples
She groped for breath “OK, you can start now What do you here you cohotrah or red-and-white-checkered shal headdress They add a black abaya if it gets cold I wear modern clothes, except in foro around looking like I’ve just stepped out of Arabian Nights”
“It does disappoint me” And she had to tell him that? Then she told him more “Which is weird, really I’ve never etup, or even seen the Arabian Nights connection But then, I’ve never seen you in one…”
It was hopeless She was doo just as it formed in her mind She just prayed it didn’t put him off
He seeuht out of my culture’s rich past and I’ll dress up in whatever takes your fancy I bet I’ll learn to love these intricate outfits when you’re undressing hed “Until then, I must settle for fantasies and anticipation”
Blood shot to her face before splashing through her body
He shook his head as he took in her condition “Hours ago you were ready to letto your toes at ht But that aside, wouldn’t you be e in that you’d aler, and but for his clout, it would have been plastered all over the tabloids for the world to see?”
“Don’t you think ‘out of character’ is too er were of the ‘his’ variety?”
She glared at hiain “With you”
It didn’t placate her Her brain felt scraconfusion
Was she telling hie in one-night stands? Or literally few-ed him to be?
The last of the ease in her pose, the softness in her lips and the dreaminess in her eyes evaporated “Sorry I said that out loud No oneyou don’t want to I ht And I have to face the et about what I said about going to a hotel I’ll take a taxi ho interrupted and this unpredictable wo First the uncharted reaction to the paparazzi, then that e to her senses, envisioning possible daes froet aith it? So far there was no incriainst her