Desert Prince's Forbidden Desire (HQR Presents Plus) by Sandra Marton

Author:Sandra Marton [Marton, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reissued Editon, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual Story Theme, Hearts Desire, Multicultural & International, Royal Sheikh, Desert King, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Foreign Country, Action & Adventure, Kidnapped As Political prisoner
Publisher: Harlequin Presents; Original Edition
Published: 2020-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

KHALIL was angry, angrier than he should have been, considering the circumstances, but what man wouldn’t be angry when an educated, intelligent woman insisted on making a damned fool of herself?

‘The woman is trying to escape, Highness,’ one of his people had cried out, bursting into the library just as he’d begun a strategy session with his ministers.

His men had let her run when they’d realised she had made for the enclosed garden from which there was no escape.

‘I’ll get her,’ Khalil had said, tight-lipped, but instead of chasing down a fleeing Joanna Bennett, he’d stumbled upon a foolish one, up to her silken elbows in a shrub she should have known better than to touch in the first place.

No. That was ridiculous. Even he had to admit that. How could she have known that the seemingly innocent shrub could conceal a venomous insect? It was obvious she hadn’t been trying to run away, even though he knew she could hardly wait to see the last of him.

His teeth ground together. Then why was his temper so close to boiling point? He glared down at her. He knew she prided herself on maintaining self-control but in this moment she was as transparent as glass. Looking into her green eyes, he could see her indignation and anger giving way to something else. To fear—and to the bone-deep determination not to let him see that fear.

Instantly, he realised how his sharply spoken words must have sounded. His glare deepened. Did the woman really think him such a savage that he would take her in violence, in some barbaric, retaliatory rage? His nostrils flared with distaste. He would tell her that she was a fool, that he had never in his life forced a woman into his bed and that she was not a woman he would choose to have in his bed, even if she came willingly…

…But then he looked at the glossy auburn hair that lay tumbled over her shoulders, at the rapid rise and fall of her breasts beneath the ridiculously oversized T-shirt she’d insisted on wearing, and it was as if a fist knotted suddenly in his gut. His gaze fell to her mouth, soft as a flower and slightly parted, as if a breeze had disturbed its petals. Desire raged through him, as hot as the fire that sometimes followed a strike of summer lightning in the mountain forests, hardening his groin with a swiftness that stunned him.

What nonsense was this? He was not a boy, given to uncontrollable bursts of adolescent desire. And she was not a woman he would ever want. She was clever and beautiful, yes, but she was soft and spoiled, selfish and stubborn and altogether unyielding.

And yet, she had yielded to him, when he’d kissed her. Each time he had taken her in his arms to humble her, she had instead kindled a fire in his blood, then matched it with a scorching heat of her own.

His breathing quickened. What would happen

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