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Water! Until he had spoken she hadn’t realised how thirsty she was Sadie’s tongue-tip flicked against the dry saltiness of her lips as she reached eagerly for the unopened bottle

Re the top, she lifted the bottle towards her mouth

The traffic was heavy enough for Drax to slon and watch her Her lips were soft and full, and as she closed them around the head of the bottle she also closed her eyes, as though she was giving herself over to a ed-for sensory pleasure She drank quickly, theas she sed and then drank more deeply

The arousal Drax had felt earlier returned, thrusting past the barriers of civility and necessity Was she aware of just how intensely erotic her actions were? Drax wondered, as between one breath and the next he becaes his own brain was creating from her actions Inside his head the soft fullness of her lips clung eagerly not to the water bottle but to his flesh, greedily absorbing its texture and taste A pothole in the road caused water from the bottle to trickle fro the hollow at its base and then spilling from it If he were to lap its wetness from her skin noould taste of her flesh and her heat, and the taste would feed his tongue to taste her more intimate wetness, to…

The sudden sharp blare of a car horn somewhere up ahead of them wrenched Drax out of his fantasy and back to reality His heart was the thudding in slow, heavy erotic beats as it urged his body to greater arousal He reached for his own bottle of water, and drank fiercely fro

The air-conditioning was on, so as she suddenly feeling aware of a heat so physical that it not only see the interior of the car, it also felt as if it was actually touching her, pressing against her skin as though in a caress? Because she wanted to be caressed? By him? What kind of craziness had possessed her? Was this some kind of heat-induced lust that was a by-product of too hts spilled dizzily on top of one another, blocking her rational exit fro herself focus on the scenery outside the car

‘We’re almost in the city,’ she told Drax ‘It’s kind of you to think about offering ive me my passport and drop me off—’

‘You’re rejecting the job without knohat it is?’

Sadie’s words had aroused two very different and co instant reactions inside Drax—one, that he should stop the car, give her the passport and forget that he had ever seen her; the other that there was no way he was going to let her go

He pressed harder on the accelerator, swinging the car into the outer lane that led away from the city

CHAPTER THREE

‘AS JOINT rulers of Dhurahn,into ways to provide our country and our people with a prosperous future once our oil runs out’

Did he really expect her to believe that he was a ruler of Dhurahn? She had heard of Zuran’s neighbouring state, but she had also seen the protocol and the hierarchy of personnel that attended Zuran’s Ruler whenever he left the palace

‘To this end, as you ricultural policy that has led to us provide other Gulf States with fresh produce That is all well enough in its oay, butotiation for soanisations in the City of London, with a view to establishing a business and financial centre of excellence within Dhurahn’

Sadie started to frown She had heard vague rued In the way of such things word had got out of this aulf state, and she had also heard the youngthat if the plan went ahead it would be a golden opportunity for the ambitious