Claimed for the Desert Prince's Heir by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-09T13:20:52+00:00

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Raif could see the answer in her face before she replied.

‘Yes,’ she said, then ducked her head.

The slow-burning fury in his gut turned to white-hot rage but worse than that was the stabbing pain of her betrayal.

Kasia carried his child and she had not told him. Had she ever intended to tell him?

She had said nothing all through the night they had spent together. While he had taken her with fire, with passion more times than he could count. But also while they had talked, and communicated with more than words.

When he had woken up a few minutes ago, the first thing he had done was reach for her. The wave of panic when he had found her gone had been real and devastating and not just because of the painful erection he’d been sporting. He hadn’t just wanted to take her again, he had wanted to hold her, to touch her, to capture her in his arms and keep her with him. He had never had that need for any other human being in his entire life. He had tried to dismiss it, forced himself to control it, but that instant visceral yearning had scared him on a fundamental level.

The sound of her in the bathroom had brought with it a wave of relief, which had only disturbed him more.

As he had stared at the ornate plasterwork on the ceiling, willing his erection to subside—not easy while her scent filled his nostrils—he had forced himself to assess all they had done the night before, and had tried to figure out what had happened to him.

Kasia had captivated and aroused him, intoxicated him with her passion, her wildfire responses, yes, but more than that he had found a closeness with her during the hours they had spent together. As they had talked, as they had teased each other.

He had spoken of things in his life he had never told another living soul. Not just the truth about his mother, but the truth about the tattoo—how his father had him branded like cattle. The more he’d thought about everything he had said and done, the weaker he’d felt.

Why had he trusted her? When he had never truly trusted anyone in his life? And after so short an acquaintance?

But then his hearing had tuned into the noise from the bathroom and he’d realised she was being sick. All he’d wanted to do was help her.

She’d looked so fragile, seemed so shaky in his arms. He’d held her while she’d retched and felt wretched himself.

That, too, had been a brand-new sensation. If he had been in a similar situation before, not that he ever had, his inclination would have been to allow his lover her privacy. But with Kasia, as with everything else about them, he had been determined to intervene.

Had he sensed her condition the night before? Was that why he had felt this weird connection to her? Had revealed information that he had never trusted anyone to know before

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