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“You look like the cat who ate the canary What are you thinking?”

“I’,” she said, “that maybe I can just call my editor and tell hiation onfor a lot longer in Abu Dhabi I could stay a few more weeks, at least, before I work back home in DC to take Jackson down”

Amir’s face went stony, and Amanda’s heart fell even as her mouth went as dry as the Sahara

Did I over-presume? God, I didn’t come off like Fatal Attraction, did I?

Amir held that expression for exactly five seconds before breaking out into a wide grin and kissing her, histhe deepest hidden treasures “I think I’d like that very much, Miss Sinclair”

Soon, they were swept up in the passion of the bath again, and soon after, of all that they could do with the expanse of a king bed at their mercy

Chapter Seven

He was hu to himself It occurred to A so, but he couldn’t help it He’d had an a they could think of, and he was glad for her eager attitude Oddly, for the first ti ti a long vacation before she returned to DC to continue her investigation of Senator Jackson Usually, he’d avoid entangle in Amanda that called to him, and he couldn’t wait to have her with hiether

It was then that his mother swept in

Part of hi at hi around the rooe to roll his eyes—the rest of hin of disrespect to the current sheikh and inappropriate for a son to behave Still, she’d been hinting so gleefully about his attraction to A into his office in order to speak with hihly suspicious at all

“Mother,” he said, standing and going to kiss her cheeks “How are you?”

“I’ to flit about the roo hair was pulled back in a long braid and she earing her tennis skirt Clearly, she was about to meet som

e of her friends for a game Never be fooled; it was blood sport between the wealthy elite of Abu Dhabi “But I wanted to see how you were”

“I’ quite well myself”

She smiled, a Mona Lisa expression that let hi lately “I can see I heard that the chef was preparing a breakfast for two this ”