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“I may have already fallen asleep,” she teased him “From boredom, you understand Is that what you mean, Your Excellency?”

“Close your eyes, then,” Khaled replied, and he looked up at her with that smile he wore so often now It made him indisputably beautiful, and never quite as remote as he’d been Never quite as cruel “I’ll try not to disturb you with my tedious attentions”

“What if I don’t want to close my eyes?”

“Cleo,” he ordered her, that sone molten “Obey”

And Cleo did

Because forever with this man was so much better than any fairy-tale fantasy she could have concocted on her own

And because every now and again, obedience felt good

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