Her Ardent Sheikh by Kristi Gold

Author:Kristi Gold [Gold, Kristi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette Desire
Published: 2001-05-10T22:00:00+00:00

Six

Jamie really wanted to tear his clothes off.

Not an appropriate thing to do considering they were sitting at the dinner table with Alima nearby in the kitchen. But having spent the afternoon reading “the book,” complete with colored illustrations, the images still danced around in her head—images of Ben and lovemaking. Although the book was tastefully written, the pictures and text left nothing to the imagination. Especially Jamie’s imagination, which at the moment was working overtime.

Alima scurried into the dining room with a platter full of fragrant meat, vegetables and pastries.

“What is the occasion, Alima?” Ben asked, the first words he’d spoken since they’d sat down.

She set the platter in front of Jamie and began piling the fare onto Jamie’s plate. “I do not understand.”

“First you bring us the oyster stew, and now this.” He gestured toward the platter. “You normally do not serve máaza unless it is a special event. And if you do not quit filling Miss Morris’s plate, there will be none left for me.”

Alima nodded and began serving Ben his food. “It is in honor of our guest.” She raised her eyes to Jamie who saw a helping of amusement there as big as the mountain of food on her plate.

“I see.” Ben raised his glass of wine and tipped it toward Jamie. “To our guest.”

Jamie clinked her own glass against his in a toast. “And to my very accommodating host.” Who she hoped would be much more accommodating as the evening progressed.

Sipping the wine slowly, Ben regarded her with his steel-colored eyes, but she couldn’t begin to read what he was thinking. “Is there anything else you wish from Alima?”

“Not that I can think of. I have everything I need.” At least from Alima.

Ben dismissed the housekeeper with a sweep of his hand and the woman quickly left. He took his gaze from Jamie and centered it on the wineglass. “Did you have a pleasant day?”

Jamie wanted to laugh. He had no idea how pleasant her day had been. He should, considering the episode on the couch. “It was okay. After you ran off, it was just the usual, watching a little TV, that sort of thing.” Thinking about what you did to me on the sofa. Reading an Arabian sex manual.

“I have made arrangements with your landlord,” he said without looking at her. “He has agreed to keep your apartment available for you. I have hired several men to watch over it should Klimt happen to return.”

“Great.” She didn’t want to think about her apartment or the fact that a maniac was still on the loose. All she could consider was Ben sitting before her, dressed in his casual clothes, his jaw shaded with evening whiskers, looking much too sexy to ignore.

Time for plan A, Jamie decided. Getting Ben alone. “After dinner, do you mind if we talk a while before I go to bed?”

He raised his eyes from the glass to her. “Something important?”

“Yes, I guess you could say that.” Important to her, anyway.

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