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She pushed the throay and got off the bed She stuhtened herself

While he stood there unaze cold, his deh there was an i to touch it As though he’d buried himself deep beneath those walls

“Zafir, I—”

“Is it advisable for you to keep traveling back and forth on such long flights whenever you please?” Those golden eyes fell to her belly, and she saw his iven you too much credit in this as well, Lauren?” Taunt and threat, his honeyed voice could cut her skin “Will youme to imprison you, habeebti?”

She flushed and searched for the right words Whichfor? “I ht for me to travel You know that I would never take an unnecessary risk”

“You have proved that I do not know you, Lauren Inarguably So indulgeLauren wanted to curl up and whimper

“How long is this trip going to be for?”

She’d waited too long to answer because his voice cracked like thunder across the rooain

“Who let you through here without breathing so much as a word to even Arif? I don’t knohat shocked ed to flee or your cunning knack insuch a convenient alliance”

Lauren flinched, re away like that For taking her help For”

“Who helped you return?”

“If you didn’t know that I was here, ere you doing in this suite then?”

In that infinitesimal moment in which he hesitated, in the dark shadows under his eyes, in his reading glasses and papers and that fountain pen of his that sat on the coffee table, Lauren found her answer

He sat here in the dark, in the suite she had stayed in, night after night

God, she’d been such a fool, a thousand times she could call herself that and still, it wouldn’t be enough

“Answer my question, Lauren”

“Your father He caht divorce papers with hiet reat destiny”