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Acid started to burn in her throat even as tears strayed down her cheeks “I…this can’t be happening”

“Baby,” Margey said “I don’t knohat’s going on over there, but it’s just wall to wall You need to coure this all out I’ with the sheikh, but just get back and we’ll figure it all out”

“I’ll do that,” she gasped out, hating how tinny and thin her voice sounded

Standing up, she clicked her phone off and rushed out of the bedrooh his quarters until she finally ca in rapid-fire Arabic with soot there, she noticed that he had the TV tuned to one of the infotainment channels, where there was a scrawl at the bottom of the screen about both of them

“Did you do this?” she deer

Aht of her and finished the conversation quickly Then he crossed the room to her “Are you okay?”

“No! How long have you known about this? Do you sneak pictures and video from your casino ca back to slap him This time, unlike the first out on the balcony, Aainst his cheek and beard with a heavy smack

Amir’s head snapped back and he rubbed at his face “I didn’t So to figure out which bastard did it, leaked that to the tabloids for cash Whento his name”

She stilled, relieved that he see the truth The way that his nostrils were flaring and the vein was throbbing in his forehead, the reaction was just too genuine Amir was as surprised and pissed as she was Yet all of this was her fault too She’d been swept up in passion, in his touch, and then she’d made a fool of herself for the whole planet to see

It had to be all the stress fro presence She let herself want so with Aood as she’d felt last night, aswaves, none of it orth this

She stuain she was confronted with his scent, with the sandalwood and pure masculinity that he see, but it had less to do with her fears and anger and more to do hat her traitorous body wanted her to do

But she couldn’t do that again

Her life had been based on loss and suffering, and so out to be too much for both of them

“Look,” he said, staring down at her with those intense ae control on all of that Stay here with h all of this” His hand reached out and threaded through her hair, and it was just a hint of the intio “We can fix this, together”

“I barely know you,” she adh the passion felt likeabout his lost sister She’d opened up to hiation with Jackson Fun was one thing, or so she’d been told, but there washer shoulders back, she glared back at the screen “They’re calling me a whore, and frankly, blurred or not, if I saw some woman on a tape the way I see ”