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For a ht which spilled in from the enormous s, and she screwed her eyes up in confusion as the faintest trace of a disturbingly faan to drift towards her The exotic san to make her stomach twist painfully, and she couldn’t work out why

And then she saw thecoainst the London skyline—tall and dark and lean and proud, as if he had been carved fro rock—and Sienna felt the blood drain fro to life

She sucked in a breath of disbelief as her eyes flickered over hiister every detail about him The slick black hair with the faint wave to it The broad shoulders and the long legs The arrogant and autocratic stance Oh, please, no Please No But now the scent which pervaded the suite became more understand-able—and wasn’t smell supposed to be the most evocative of all the senses?

Did she whiun to turn around? And now the breath caught in her throat as she began to issue a silent and heartfelt prayer She prayed like she hadn’t done for a long, long ti some mysterious presence to take the pain away If no one had been listening then, then let the now

Don’t let it be him Oh, please don’t let it be him But her heart plummeted like a stone as he turned to face her

Hashiing the heavy stab of desire in his loins with a gris the last ti only increased

He had long denied himself this moment because he had told himself that he could, but in the end desire had proved irresistible Hashim despised the weakness which made him want her, yet he embraced it, too And he intended to savour every moment of it This woman who had deceived him would pay, and she would pay with her body!

He let the narrowed ebony gleaure, to see if time had marred its perfection, but it was as fir Saluki—the silky-sleek hunting dogs much favoured by the tribes of his native land

It was hard to pin dohat made her quite so desirable—for hers was not a fashionable look She was to

o petite and curvy for modern tastes, yet her body was to die for And if you added to that the ingredients of innocence and sensuality…

Innocence!

Hashiht of what a sham appearances could be

He let his gaze drift upwards, to her face Hohite her skin was, he observed with i the deep rose of her lips Ah, those lips! One of the very first things he had noticed about her had been her natural pout, which so to recreate

Now those saed to crush their petal softness beneath the hard, seeking war would only increase his eventual pleasure

‘Sienna,’ he s

The way he said it took her back to somewhere which was out of bounds, and her heart buckled with pain as she stared at the man she had once believed herself to be in love with