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relationship with the e that a wo to him about her sexual past would have caused hi forced to recognise, nothing that had happened to him since he had first set eyes on Sadie ca close to his ‘norh to infuriate hiht of Sadie with anotherherself to thathim with her soft full e erotic heights he himself so ached to show her

Drax fought desperately to ignore what he was feeling and thinking But it was too late As surely as any genie let loose fro bottle, the reality of his desire for her had been exposed

‘We need to return to the palace,’ he told her curtly ‘I have aI need to attend’

There wasn’t any , but he didn’t trust himself to remain alone with her in his present mood, and at least if they returned to the palace he could distance himself from her

Sadie was too relieved that he had stopped questioning her about her non-existent sex-life to worry about his brusque manner

They aiting for the lift when thetowards theently to him in Arabic

‘Go downstairs and wait for me in the foyer,’ Drax told Sadie after he had listened to the olderI have to attend to I won’t be very long’

Nodding her head, Sadie got in the lift

The foyer really was ed, as she stepped out of the lift on the ground floor Drax and his brother were bound to make a success of their venture, and she adht be a real future for her here

Although Dhurahn, like Zuran, was a modern city, there was still that awareness of the proximity of the desert and its mystery, and she had learned while she was in Zuran that there was so about it that enthralled her She had taken a couple of organised trips out to the wadis, and hadrespect for the strength and pride of those who had lived for so ely beautiful environment If she were allowed to stay on she would try to explore the desert a littleher thoughts drift as she waited patiently for Drax

When she at last heard the hu lift she waited expectantly for the doors to open—only to stiffen with shock when it wasn’t Drax who got out, but Jack Logan He was grinning wolfishly at her in the almost obscenely vain way he had that she had always found so threatening

‘I saw you get in the lift, so I thought I’d coly ‘How did you et involved with the top man, by the way? Not via his bed, I’ll bet…You wouldn’t have lasted two seconds there once he’d sussed out how sexless you are…’

Sadie swung round, turning her back on hily rescue her from her tormentor

‘Sadie, Sadie…’ Jack Logan was singing softly ‘Who won’t open her legs for anyone What’s it like being so uptight? Tell you what I’ll do, seeing as I’enerous, I’ll show you what it’s like to have a man…’

If she just ignored hi her and leave her alone, Sadie reasoned If she just stood here and avoided eye contact—She gave a shocked protest when Jack suddenly grabbed hold of her and swung her round He was considered good-looking, she knew, but he had mean eyes, and the cruel look in them made her shudder