indecent proposal

one of those moods, ar

uld you like me to do?' he enquired, ever s

que brand of sarcasm,

she took the words

he replied. 'I haven't eaten since breakfast thi

'... almost n

assumed from all of that, not in the

was the anxiety lurki

e now that she actual

d she needed time before she s

ble shrug sent one of h

gestures war between them was declared. It was not a new aspect of the

to pander to the arrog

ke ego and Raschid refused to p

nsibilities,'

?' Evie

'My time is not always my

for almost an hour?' Her turn to use sarcasm,

t tread of a predator ruthlessly stalking its prey. Her nerve-ends began

n power, in skin-flaying mast

and lithe and dark and deliciously dangerous

th had completely seize

iar excitement were beginning

y, was why she could not bear to consi

her no other living b

A hand with long, lean brown fingers that kne

ke hold of he

'I am in no mood for temperament tonight. So

c

Evie immediately defied

ckey and I d

rrive late on

ten than you arrive early

mouth twitched, an un

aren't you ecstatic that I am such a

ie sighed, wrenching her chin from his grasp as a wave of pink ran into h

ed. 'That is a

shed him a look of i

ced her with a kiss, his arms snaking around her body and crushing he

e was that she didn't a

ved right in there with him. She couldn't stop

two long years of being

g in the background in simmering disapproval, and had kept the world's tabloi

knew that. The heir to a wealthy sheikhdom

blotted her copybook

pressure was still on for her to do the righ

r of extinction thoug

as as inevitable as night following day that helped

fight?' Raschid murmured as his kis

ly translated, and knew without a sin

tragically-oh, how sh

sensuality. She needed to soak herself in him

ent between them. Be the woman he knew and loved so

an, this Arabian lover

knowing, lazily seducing, and so indolently aware of his power over her

she wan

is?' she asked, playing for time by stroking he

the smooth

invited, and began nibbling at the corner o

h the thin straps that w

r strip show?' she mocked, referring to the f

easonable eyesight from Battersea to Westmins

was to reach over her

moothly closing down her options so she had nothing left but a stra

to know what his preference was since it wa

oing to leave the final choice to her. He knew

d to make love to her n

all kinds of accusations at h

rving for food or not,

dy was also showing the signs of a craving it h

omplained in a last-ditch att

flashing white teeth a