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Why did Zafir have guards?
The question shot through her and fell into nothingness like dust His dark sensuality swathed her Her skin shivered with awareness, her stomach churned with every step that they took toward each other
The intoxicating power of his e of that leanly honed body, everything coiled around her, binding her immobile under his scrutiny He stopped at ar face, the burnished, coppery skin a tight mask over his features
A regal s you to Behraat?”
Chilling cold filled her veins
Ms Ha they had shared, he spoke to her as if she was a stranger?
Every little hurt Lauren had patched over since she’d been a little girl ripped open at that indifference “After the way you left, that’s what you have to say to me?”
A taut nerve throbbed in his tely sedate He looked so impossibly remote, as harsh and bleak as the desert she’d heard so ister with me,” he said, as now a thread of temper flashed into his perfectly polite tone, “you need an appointment, Ms Hamby Like the rest of the world”
His dismissal scraped her raith its politeness but she held on to her teht?”
“No I do notkid” A step closer and she could see so beneath that calm Shock? Displeasure? Indifference? “Do not make a spectacle of yourself, Lauren”
A shard of pain ricocheted inside her, stealing her breath
“Don’t make a scene, Lauren”
“Grow up and understand that your parents have important careers, Lauren”
“S your tears, Lauren”
Her heart beating a wild tattoo inside her chest, h her head like sohosts, Lauren covered the last step between her and Zafir and slapped him
His jaw jerked back, the crack of the slap shattering the silence like a clap of thunder
The sound of quick footsteps pierced the haze of her fury, her hand jarring painfully at the iry co around them
But sheit was as if she was functioning in a world of her own
Soleamed in his eyes then
Oh, God, what had she done?