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Haatched Lina disappear into the small bathroom, her hands filled with clothes she’d pulled from the drawer of the cheap dresser that also served as a television stand The rooet through Though he wasn’t taking any chances

“Leave the door open,” he ordered

She didn’t answer, but she also didn’t close the door

Daue So, he could have the pleasure of subduing her? What the hell was the matter with him?

And as up with her? The Lina he reed, but the truth was—she had He didn’t like it, which made no sense

The fact that she made no atteet rid of Sebastian was the behavior of a docile wo but that Or at least she had been eight years ago

One thing hadn’t changed in all that time The reaction of his body to her presence He’d had a hard-on since she client as his senses took in the sounds and s

CHAPTER SEVEN

SHE used the same shampoo and body wash she had when they first met The scents were unmistakable He could hear the splashes of water as she washed herself and damned if he didn’t want to strip off his own clothes and join her This was not the way he’d planned to react to her when he agreed to take thepersons case personally

Her father was angry and not a little worried at Lina’s disappearance In an unprecedentedhad come to Hawk’s office His security advisor had acco, practically begging Hawk to find his daughter

Seeing another proud ht to this point had moved Hawk, but he was too honest with himself to pretend that was all that had influenced his decision to couarding her There were still nights he woke up with the scent of her skin a memory so real he reached for her in the bed

She was never there, and never would be, but he had to be the one to bring her in To deliver her to her family to marry the Playboy Prince Okay, so he didn’t understand why King Fahd bin Latif had arranged Lina’s e to a sheikh who didn’t seem able to keep his scandals out of the newspaper, but it wasn’t Hawk’s job to judge the actions of his clients

He’d taken on an ignment and he would see it to completion

And et the chance to have the conversation she had denied hiht they saw each other and one attempt he’d made via the phone since

He owed Lina an apology, o back, he wouldn’t change his actions—at least not that he’d walked away He’d had no choice Her place in the royal family of Marwan dictated that reality However he would have beenon self-control that had turned out to be weaker than he thought

He also would have explained that his attraction to her had not been a deception, but the real deal That even if they couldn’t have a future he would rather part as friends But he’d been totally disgusted with himself and his failure to control his libido He’d taken it out on her, being cold and judgmental—he’d had to try and keep control—when he should have been apologizing

A part of him had realized it then and that had only made it worse

He found hi her kiss that daer in disdain he wasn’t sure he even felt

He’d taken on a job and he would see it to co for a twenty-first century woman to want to choose her own husband Even a princess?

The sound of the shower curtain sliding back had Hawk’s head snapping up He looked through the cracked open door, knowing he would not see anything Lina would no doubt finish dressing behind the door

Only he hadn’t taken the vanity mirror into consideration The open door had stopped it froave a perfecther delectable little body He should turn away, he knew he should But he couldn’t make himself do it

She was so beautiful Her honey colored skin glistened with moisture where she had not yet reached with the towel Droplets of water dripped off the ends of her hair to roll down her generous s, soht over the tips

He wanted to go in there and lick those drops of water right off her and had even taken two steps forward before he caught hi hiswith uncontrollable fascination as she continued to dry off She turned and bent over, exposing her heart shaped backside and the shadow of her most feminine place

He groaned

She stilled “Did you say so, Sebastian?”

“Uh…no” If he didn’ther like an adolescent getting his first peek at a female body