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His eyebrows rose “Care to explain that outburst to a poor roaned “You’d have to speak Farahish to get it That’s a language half-spoken ly out-of-the-blue incoherencies”
His eyes crinkled as he smoothed her cheek with the back of his hand “I can’t tell you how eager I a of the basics You didn’t think we’d actually land on the island, did you?”
“You understood! Wow People always think it’s a sign of loose brain coets worse when I explain”
He frowned “It’s pointless to try to explain anything to those whose id wretches They make you appreciate me even more”
“If I appreciated you ulped, then stae of a tiny island and assudom and head here by a smaller jet, maybe a helicopter or yacht”
They touched down as she spoke, a perfect, i She was so ihed “The pilots can’t hear you as they would on a coht, but I’ll racious She beamed at him “Oh, please do”
He rose to his feet, sroaned as everything inside her did, too His araze concerned
“My joints need oiling after sitting down for so long”
He pinched her cheek softly “Next time, take my advice If you’d at least lain down in one of the bedroo all over now But have no fear All joints will get well oiled around here You won’t sit down much while I’m around”
He let that marinate in her h the jet to the air-stairs
The reet theasp He secured her to him as they descended to the tarain
If she’d thought seeing Shehab by ain beenby mere mortals’ standards, those who needed darkness to hide their ilare of the island sun, Shehab as…There was no single adjective Not a dozen, either
Where a twelve-hour beard made most men look unkempt and in need of a shave and shower, it only deepened his bronze statue impression His skin really was perfect, spread taut over theof his bone structure, burnished, the color so coht of his irises His hair looked alive, the luxury of its waves an extension of his vigor and character as hted by honest-to-goodness indigoes and blues as if his electric nature imbued it And then caht and the harsh shadows it generated were doing to her own haven’t-seen-daylight-in-seven-years paleness But exposed to their pitiless test, the symmetry and precision of his features were enhanced to the point where she felt she’d discover he was soain wonder how such a being could be as hard hit by her as she was by him, he rushed her to a sleek, matte-black monster of a toy, a helicopter the likes of which she’d never seen before