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So asn’t she doinginto hih she couldn’t stand without the support of his body? Did she really not care about the danger of her own actions? Not just via the casual sex with a stranger he erously, via the effect her proxiivens about herself Givens like the fact that she wasn’t a woes; like the fact that she wasn’t a woman who could ever be overwhel at him; like the fact that she was far too sensible to take risks with her sexual and emotional health

It was the heat of the sun that waselse She certainly wasn’t entertaining the kind of fantasies she had heard some western women had about sexy Arab sheikhs—even if this ht down to the aura of danger surrounding him

‘This is Zuran,’ she heard hi her coldly as he thrust her away ‘Here it is not acceptable for a man and a woman to e elsewhere!’

What sheit sound as though he thought she was co on to him Mortified, Sadie pulled away fro She had been out in the hot sun for longer than ise, and her own suddendizziness to swamp her

The sight of Sadie’s suddenly too pale face acco with instinctive speed as he recognised the onset of heat sickness He bundled her into the car so quickly that Sadie didn’t have ti more thanas he slid into the driver’s seat and switched on the engine She could hear too the sound of the doors locking as he set the ca

r in motion and pulled away from the kerb

‘Stop,’ she said frantically ‘You can’t do this!’

‘What would you have preferred me to do—leave you where you were to suffer sunstroke?’

‘There’s plenty of shade in the city’

‘You would never have , ‘And you needn’t look atto fear from me’

‘That’s easy for you to say,’ Sadie retorted shakily ‘You’ve practically kidnapped me, and—’

‘And now you’re worried that Iyou off to my hare one dark eyebrow ‘Do you really think that’s likely? Let’s be honest with one another—in today’s world, if I wanted to indulge myself sexually with a disposable partner I would hardly need to kidnap one, would I?’

Her eyes were the colour of clear warm honey, Drax noticed, her tawny hair as polished and silken as the coat of one of his cherished pure-bred Arab mares He sensed within her the same pride that possessed his falcons—a pride he had the power and the skill to tah they were doves

Her skin was too pale, though, for the harshness of the desert’sthat fact now Perspiration beaded her forehead and her head drooped on the slender steuessed that in addition to her obvious apprehension at being bundled into his car she was probably also feeling slightly nauseous She was certainly likely to be dehydrated

He reached out and tapped open the centre console that separated their seats ‘You will find a bottle of water in here Take it and drink some,’ he advised her sternly