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‘I am not sure…er…That is…I’m afraid I don’t know your correct title or how I should address you,’ she ed to say uncertainly

He gave a s of the powerful shoulders she had already noticed

‘My brother and I both had a very liberal upbringing Our mother was Irish and our father wanted us to follow in his footsteps and be educated in England and Paris While the traditionalists in our country still use our titles, since we areour new venture on modern lines everyone will be on first-name terms with one another Therefore you will address me as Drax

‘Drax…’

Sheit—a soft whisper of sound as her lips parted round the ‘D’ and then closed softly on the ‘x’

‘It is a family name,’ he told her dises that were for inside his head He had seen far more beautiful women and had known far more sensually explicit and carnal women—so as it about this woman that uniquely invested so much of what she said with such an intense sensuality that just being with her had his body in an almost constant state of arousal? It was a reaction to her he would have to destroy, since it was Vere ould have the right to claim her sexually—if he chose to do so

The sudden savage surge of ripped hireat diplomatic importance—one that must not be prejudiced by so without a wo him to feel desire for her, Drax reassured himself It was over a year since he had ended his last relationship, and it was no wonder that his body was re him of its needs

There was a very discreet and elegant retired belly dancer who had returned to Dhurahn after the death of her elderly husband and would be lad to welcoovern their relationship without hi to spell thely beautiful

They were at the airport Sadie felt her sto? Was it too late for her to change her mind?

Change her mind? So far all the decisions had been made for her, not by her, Sadie forced herself to admit And yet, if she was honest with herself, there was soht of the career challenge that now lay ahead of her If he—Drax—this Arabian sheikh who had swept into her life like the hot desert wind and taken her over, was telling her the truth

CHAPTER FOUR

ZURAN airport orld-faance and the nu mall

A snap of his fingers and a few quiet words froh the airport’s security system by Zurani officials, and her case had been politely but firmly taken from her

Without knowing quite how it had happened, Sadie discovered that she was obliged to walk behind her new eh the brightly lit ner label shops He spoke into hisa conversation with soh several times A woman? Sadie wondered His woman?

The ferocity of the sensation that spiked through her shocked her into stopping abruptly, and it took the hasty apology of so into her to break her out of the paralysis that had seized her It wasn’t quite so easy to ht of aa sexual relationship with another woman stopped her in her tracks and filled her with such a fierce surge of envy? Envy? That wasn’t what she had felt at all, she hastily denied to herself