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It gave Sadie a sharp sense of revulsion to know that Monika had been through her personal belongings, but the real cause of the sickness ht-headed was the reality of what she was now facing No job, no money, no plane ticket home All she could think of to do was throw herself on thewalk in to town to get there

The courtyard gates were being opened and twotraditional Arab dress One of the, educated randfather she could just about remember—while the man with him…Sadie made an involuntary sound deep in her throat, her eyes widening and her heart thudding heavily into her chest wall The other antly alive with raw sexuality and power, that he was —no, not gazing at hi in awe, Sadie aped at a ined she would want to do so

She could feel her face turning pink as he turned his head, so that instead of just seeing his profile she met a full-on swift, hawkish assessreen eyes Ice-green? Her hands were tre hold of it as it threatened to slip sideways frorasp

What was happening to her? Her instinctive and ie in the safety of denial and tell herself that as happening was caused by her defences having been under—or anyone—else But she couldn’t escape frolance froer had stripped from her the protection hich she had previously kept his sex at bay

Without saying or doing anything he had broken through her barriers andforce that her whole body was now a mass of chaotic, over-sensitised and far too receptive sexually attuned nerve-endings

So this was physical desire, then! This white-hot unstoppable flood of bitingly intense, dangerously seductive longingshe was feeling and thinking—changing her froh she had been given into the hands of a sorcerer

CHAPTER TWO

‘ARE you all right, child?’

Sadie could hear the gentle voice of her e her ierous, al beside hi herself back up to the clear light of day from the darkest depths of some secret hidden place

‘Yes Yes, I’h she knew that both men must be perfectly aware that she was not

She risked another look at Professor al Sawar’sher soul with that too-intense glittering look anyher to tell herself that she had over-emphasised his earlier effect on her—no doubt because of the trauh her like cool, soothing water on over-heated skin

She could see in the Professor’s face that both ry tirad

e Her now ex-employer’s husband reached into his robe and withdraallet Norht of a modern wallet concealed within the folds of such a traditional gar too hard to rationalise the rush of unfa other than note vaguely that the oldersome money

‘Please—take this…’ he was urging her

Now she had to force herself to focus on him