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Mafir shook his head “It’s not just good Your bet has paid off”

He sighed and leaned back in his seat “I suppose, but we have to see what comes six months from now or a year For a while, there was the novelty of the story, of the illicit affair caught round the world People are like vultures that way We have to see if this will still hold up and attract visitors even when there’s not a hint of scandal”

“Actually, my sheikh,” Mafir countered, “I think it’s probably the reverse The type of clientele anted—the high-end jetsetters and the whales at the card table—they aren’t looking for Kardashian-level scandals”

“Yes, but it’s just that one never knohen the other shoe is going to fall”

Mafir frowned evenabout your resort, are you?”

“I am I’m one hundred percent focused on the ins and outs of Ali Babba’s and all other ventures of Bahan Industries”

“Then you’re doing an aures before you, my sheikh”

“You don’t have to do that We’re en concern for ritted his teeth

“I have to care when I see you losing focus on the business I’d like to have a place to keep working, and if anything does jettison Ali Babba’s bottom line, then that would affect me as well Besides, after a decade, I’d like to think of us as friends, or at least let you know that I care about you as more than a source of income”

“I’m touched,” Amir drawled

“And I’m serious I can see that lack of focus, that pain in your eyes You miss Miss Sinclair”

“And I estock, and had her rush out on me in no uncertain terms”

“Then uards protect her by proxy”

Amir raised his eyebrows at his manservant He should have known Even if he’d tried to keep Mafir out of it, his assistant was sharper than most It hy he’d hired him, after all “You knew?”

“Of course, and I think it’s time you reconciled as best you could with Miss Sinclair You’re a ghost of yourself, and you’re distracted It’s not just business decisions you’reback in order, and I think the only way for you to do that is to win her back”