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Drax flicked another assessing look over Sadie, frowning as he saw her trying to smother a tell-tale yawn

‘It has been a long day for you, and it is late I shall summon Nasim and instruct him to escort you back to the woh for me to discuss my plans for our new venture with you in more detail’

CHAPTER SIX

SADIE cah the heavy layers of her deep sleep slowly and reluctantly on hearing the soft sounds of padding feet and the chink of china When she opened her eyes it confused her at first not to see the bare discoh up under the roof of the al Sawar house

And then she remembered She wasn’t in Zuran any more; she was in the Royal Palace of Dhurahn

She sat up quickly in the comfortable wide bed, thankful that she had taken the trouble to slip on a clean tee shirt before going to bed Was that because she had feared that her sleepHakeeht her a breakfast tray, but by the ht her here?

Drax Prince al Drac’ar al Karih not only to raise the heat of her body, but to make her sensually aware of the cool stroke of the undoubtedly expensive bedlinen against her suddenly sensitised skin She could feel the pulse of her own body, and the ache it sent radiated out all over her, hten and her toes want to curl

She must not think like this, Sadie warned herself, shocked by the ardness of her thoughts Sheher softly, ‘I have brought you your breakfast, sheikha If there is anything else you should wish?’

Sheikha? Surely she had no right to such an elevated for polite? It frustrated Sadie that her knowledge of Dhurahni custo she would have to address if she was to stay and work here

Her thoughts suddenly busy, Sadie refused to ad the about her new employer

She sirl and shook her head ‘No This is lovely Thank you’

‘I am to return in one hour to escort you to the public roohness’s assistants,’ she told Sadie carefully, as though she had been rehearsing the words

Sadie gave her another slad she’d have so the corridors She had been too tired to take ht

With Hakeeht coh the open shutters of the s to see what lay outside them She had also been too tired to explore the suite of roo she could see just how luxurious her bedroo mixture of traditional andon the wall opposite the bed, and several s were scattered over the tiled floor Two sets of double doors opened off the bedroom on opposite walls adjacent to the s One set led into an elegantly furnished sitting roo rooe,‘infinity’ bath

Pulling on the towelling robe she had left at the end of the bed the night before, Sadie went over to the s As she looked out her eyes widened in delight when she saw the enclosed courtyard garden that lay beyond them A pair of French s opened out onto a tiled area, protected froht by a deep veranda Beyond that were mosaic pathways and raised flowerbeds filled with a variety of hosta-like wide-leaved plants and neatly clipped topiary balls of white roses The beds were finished off with a border of frothing white flowers Sadie didn’t recognise In the middle of the enclosed area water splashed down from a fountain into a basin which overflowed into an ornae, sleek, beautifully-coloured fish rose fro back into the water