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Chrissie was scarlet to her hairline, could feel her very cheeks throbbing with unwelcome heat ‘I’ll use the other shower,’ she said quietly

‘We areto be ely

He strode into the bathroo Chrissie fro up clothes, pulling the fro into the bathroo didn’t noticeably make her feel any better She had insisted that she wanted a divorce and then fallen into bed with hiht he had her exactly where he wanted her Was that so surprising?

Chrissie would not have put it past Jaul to have deliberately set out to get her horizontal He was no slowcoach omen, no fool when it came to what mattered His passion was irresistible but he would know perfectly well that she would feel tormented by what had just happened between them and he probably felt quite self-satisfied because he had proved his point: she did still want him and crave him in the most basic of ways

That h When she had first rah he had not behaved that ith her In fact, although they had hit astonishing highs in the lesser intimacy stakes, Jaul hadher appreciate even back then that in some ways Jaul was much more anchored in his own culture than she had ever properly appreciated It had also made her wonder in low moments after he had disappeared if she had won Jaul purely by saying no for so long and thereby acquiring all the glorious lustre of a challenge and a hile trophy Was that the simple explanation of why the heir to a Gulf throne had chosen to deeh toa pere?

But that past was long gone and she was over it, Chrissie reain Just not as over hiht she was, a little inner voice rely Jaul would think he had won noould assuain It probably was just that basic for hiain it meant he had her back

And whose fault was it that he would now be thinking that? Chrissie boiled with regret inside herself Pure naked lust had overwhelmed her It was a fallacy to believe that only men could react like that, she ruminated unhappily, a nonsense to assume that a woman couldn’t feel the same way She had never been with anyone other than Jaul but she had learned a lot about that side of her nature even in the short tiether and knew that she was a passionate woman And the only reason she hadn’t slept with anyone else since Jaul was that she had yet to ed sexual effect on her that he did

Jaul towelled himself dry after a shoith a reflective look on his lean, strong face while he tried to work out whether he hadDid she have genuine cause to feel that way?

He refused to believe that his late father had lied to hi enquiries at the e Lut’s behaviour would be downright disloyal and it would be sure to spawn unpleasant ruossip His features sombre at that prospect, Jaul cursed below his breath He had a wife He had two children He norance of those facts but the reality was that now he had to live with his wife and his children in the present and not in the past, harking back to old disruptive issues that only roused bitterness and aggression in both of them

She had taken the money and run Did he continue to hate her for that even when he no that she had been pregnant and in dire need of financial help? She was younger than he was, less mature and all of a sudden he hadn’t been there for her A woht have had a termination rather than raise two children she had not planned to conceive Whether he liked it or not, fate had ensured that he had let her down by not being there for her when he had been needed