Assassin for the Sheikh: A Royal Billionaire Romance Novel (Curves for Sheikhs Series Book 11) by Annabelle Winters

Author:Annabelle Winters [Winters, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Rainshine
Published: 2018-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

15

“There is no truth to be found,” the Sheikh said to her, pulling her close and wrapping the white parachute-sheets around the two of them, shielding her from the sun as they waited for their taxi. “You should know that by now. The world we live in is built from lies, and those lies are built upon more lies.”

Kathryn turned her head and gazed into his green eyes. “Why do you say ‘we’? What’s your connection to Benson and the CIA, Hyder?” She raised an eyebrow. “And I want the truth. Don’t you dare say . . .” she put on a serious expression and did her best imitation of his smooth accent, “. . . there is no truth to be found, dear Ms. Kathryn.”

“You mock me again,” he said, throwing his head back and laughing as he pulled her closer into his broad, hard body.

Kathryn laughed too, partly at the madness of it all. Here she was, a CIA assassin dressed like a whore, wrapped in parachute fabric, being embraced by a Sheikh whom she knew almost nothing about. In fact she knew less than nothing, because what she’d been told about him might well have been lies.

But this feels real, she thought as she looked down at his thick, strong arms wrapped around her, just beneath her breasts. This feels real. He feels real. We feel real!

Because it is real, came a whisper from somewhere inside her. There’s no faking what just happened. There’s no lies in the way your bodies reacted to one another. Lies are spoken and heard. What you experienced had no sound, no words, no logic or reason. It was pure feeling. Pure emotion. Pure . . . love?

Ridiculous, Kathryn told herself, almost saying the word out loud. If there’s no such thing as absolute truth, then there’s no such thing as absolute love either.

“Remember why we are both here,” the Sheikh had muttered just before he took her, and Kathryn frowned as the words came back to her. What did he mean? Why did this king, this beast of a man who clearly had a powerful, relentless sex drive, follow this weird-ass ritual of staying celibate all year except for ten days? What was he trying to accomplish in those ten days? What was he looking for?

“You’re looking for your own truth, aren’t you?” she blurted out without thinking, rubbing his muscular forearms as she said it, locking her fingers with his.

“What?” he said. “What do you mean?”

“I mean with this ten-day thing you do. Whatever you call it. You’re looking for something. For someone.”

The Sheikh grunted, shifting his body against hers. “Is that a question?”

“If it were, would you answer it?”

“Probably not,” said the Sheikh. “Not even if I were hypnotized.”

Kathryn laughed and squeezed his arm. “I’ll get you sooner or later. You know that.”

“You will get me? Now that is a bit ominous, considering what you do for a living.”

“I don’t just do this for a living. It’s about more than that.

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