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“When I did, she was both amazed and a little horrified, I think”

“Not allthat their” A dark flush claimed his cheeks “Whatever it is you said I didn’t strut”

“Well, you’re not really the strutting kind”

“No?” His h my machismo has been reduced What kind am I?”

“Please Like you don’t know”

It was his turn to shrug now “I would like to hear it in your words”

“Blatant sexuality oozes out of every pore in your body, Zafir” Warmth pooled below her skin at her oords “Six years of sexual drought and it took you three days You made me feel as if I was the most attractive woman in the world As if I was the only one to have shredded that tight control of yours Hell of a trick that,” she said, aware of hoerless her attraction to him always left her

“It was not a trick Whatever you felt, multiply it by ten times and you’ll understand how I felt”

The divan shifted as Zafir’s weight sank into it and every cell in her froze

Golden eyes stared back at her His elbows on his legs, he was leaning forward

“So are you going to want help with night feedings and such when the baby coether to learn about these things?”

It was the cruelest thing he could have asked her Like a e in the desert that could tempt and warp one’s sense of reality That promised to quench your unbearable thirst when there was not a drop

He had no right to ask such things of her when they were anything but a married couple absolutely in love with each other

Donning a smile that threatened to crack her face with its brittleness, she went for playfulness No ould she ever betray how dis to be an arht?” Her neck hurt at how stiffly she held herself

She took his silence as a yes

“Then you’ll be excused I’m sure you’ll be super busy with state affairs to” She shrugged the rest of her ansay

The tent reverberated with so unsaid, yet Lauren didn’t knohat Unless it was her brittle s into pieces

Zafir stood to leave Pausing at the entrance to the tent, he looked back at her “I will send ayou need?”