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Ruthlessly, he continued todown, he could see that she was lost Her eyes were smoky and she trembled like a leaf Was she as receptive as this with every rimly, unprepared for the poisonous snake of jealousy which coiled around his heart His black eyes scanned the hallway and the di there they would be unseen

He felt her stir restlessly and kissed her again, for he knew that a kiss heldelse That women could be made to fall in love under the spell of a kiss—for they read into it all their secret desires and needs He felt an infinitesiht into him, and he knew then that her capitulation was certain

He picked her up in his arstones and theher down on top of it Sienna’s eyes fluttered open as if she had suddenly just come out of a coma and realised where she was

‘What are you doing?’

There was a strange kind of startlement on her face which alenuous questions like that one were sometimes asked out of habitthe line thatwith the game if it eased her conscience

‘What do you think I’?’ he said softly, as he lay down beside her—he, the Sheikh, lying on the floor with a wo my wildest dream and fantasy’

And hers, too

‘Really?’ she questioned tentatively

‘But of course,’ he said s that his e doubts ‘I want you, Sienna My beautiful Sienna Indeed, I have never stopped wanting you Did you not know that?’

She shook her head, her hts ‘But you—’

‘Shh’

His face was close to hers, his breath warain She felt the ground hard beneath her back, and the hard body pressing against hers, and fleetingly she wondered how and why she had allowed this to happen But it was only very fleeting, and suddenly it didn’t matter She couldn’t stop She didn’t want to stop

Once—a long tiiven her a taste of passion and it had branded and spoiled her for ever The et close to her subsequently had had an impossible act to follow, even if they hadn’t been aware of it at the tihost which was all too real, to move on and break free of his enchantment?

She licked at her dry lips ‘We do not have very long Wh-what about the staff? The…the guests?’ she ed

Hashi If there had been any tiny vestige of guilt at his cold-blooded seduction then she had banished it with her words She knew exactly what she was doing She was sexually hungry, as he was, and probably almost as experienced Well, then—let her see as the nificent lover of all her conquests!

For he too had been enchanted by the sense of nearly Of soer—with hi before he had properly had his fill of her, and that sense of aching and burning frustration had never quite gone away Well, noould—and it would be gone for ever

‘We have long enough,’ he said, and the stark note of hungeray—and for a nised it as his own

And hunger made his hands tremble, made his need to join with her overwhelm him with a desire which banished all his carefully conceived plans Forgotten was his long-nursed wish to feast upon the nificent breasts which she had displayed for all the world to see Instead—unbelievably and inexplicably—he found that he didn’t want to wait No—couldn’t wait

With a groan, he rucked up her skirt and found hi off the delicate panties Shefor him instantly His robes were not encumbered by belts or buttons or zips He could slither off the light silk of his trousers with ease until he was free at last, sliding on the necessary protection with the i and nudging against her with a restrained and nificent power At last! Such sweet torture, this moment of expectation, but a torture to be treasured and savoured until he could bear it no longer

‘Now,’ he whispered—not a question but an emphatic statement, and in answer her lips pressed into his shoulder, opening against hiue and the sharp graze of her teeth and could contain hier He drove hard into her