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A look of bliss came over her face the moment he said wife She ht written in her expression, fusing his insides with love and longing for a continuation
She ca, and chiding hi you for access to your limitless funds and power Second, this isn’t about money Bill is sort of the only friend I have, and he needs o to hell “I accept and understand that” And he did He kneas enough for her, but if others enriched her life in any way, struck an extra ray of happiness in her heart, he’d cherish the so she’d have theain, though, or he’ll suffer”
“Oh, he’s just all bark WithDad used to be the saure with the sa you, with all this uided compassion” She started to protest and he only kissed her “And though it aggravates iven you a s I love about you”
“Oh, do you think you can arrange for ave her a hard, long kiss, swearing he’d arrange for her to have the“So you’ll arrange for o back to LA?”
Shehab’s heart convulsed with trepidation After the enchant their love had catapulted theher with each e of each other’s love And he dreaded the least change But how could he deny her?
He couldn’t He’d always give her anything before she even wished for it “You think I’d send you back alone?”
She juht “You’ll come with me?”
“To the ends of the earth, to hell and back, or even if there was no return ticket So what’s a tiny skip to LA?”
The tiny, twenty-hour skip, reprising their ht fro that had taken place then While then they’d spent it talking, and strictly outside the bedroom, this time they headed there the h the flight
But through the sensual delirium and emotional overload, Shehab felt anxiety and the need to pour out everything he ithholding fro at him
Yet he’d look at her, see and feel her adoration and bliss, and have his purpose defeated again and again How could he cloud this perfection by bringing up the charade that had started it all? How could he cause her pain and disillusion if only foran instru the throne of Judar?
It was only as he finally watched her walking into her work-place, turning every two steps to wave at hier
As soon as he saw her again, he would divulge his identity, confess the whole truth, beg her forgiveness for the deception that had ceased to be one alive him
She turned around one lass of the skyscraper’s entrance, blew hiht it, pressed it in both his hands to his lips, before taking it to his heart, where it took it and soared
Yes He’d confess, and she’d forgive and forget