Inherited for the Royal Bed by Annie West

Author:Annie West [West, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2018-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

STRANGE HOW LINA’S quivers of nerves settled when Sayid took her hand and smiled, despite the hungry edge to his expression.

She wanted to be with him, wanted to learn with him the intimacies men and women shared, yet anxiety had undercut her decision. Anxiety that a week as his lover might cement rather than erode her feelings for him. Anxiety that he’d find her gauche or lacking with her total absence of sexual experience.

Even the heady moment when he’d acknowledged his respect for her had underscored the enormity of what she was doing.

But his smile, his touch, bathed her in a glow of delight and anticipation that obliterated all else.

This is right, her soul sang as they stopped by the bed.

So utterly right, her body crooned as they sank side by side onto the edge of the mattress.

Lina licked her lips, dry again despite the juice he’d shared with her, and saw with faint wonder the fixed way Sayid stared at her mouth. As if mesmerised. She registered the pulse suddenly noticeable at his temple. Tentatively she licked her bottom lip with the tip of her tongue again and felt a ripple pass through the big frame beside her.

But before complacency at her power could take hold he’d relinquished her hand, moving from the bed to the floor. Startled, she watched him kneel before her and lift her foot onto his thigh.

A quiver shot through her as those large, warm hands closed around her ankle, her nipples peaking in response to the darts of sensation spearing through her body. She had no name for them except possibly awareness, or need.

His smile was knowing but his shoulders were rigid with tension as he investigated the delicate suede ankle straps of her purple shoes.

‘Sexy shoes,’ he murmured as he tugged one tiny buckle undone and moved to the second.

‘I...’ She cleared her throat. ‘I bought them the week before I came back to Halarq.’ She didn’t bother to add they were more daring and expensive than any shoes she’d ever owned. After years of frugal living, and with the shimmering purple fabric waiting to be made into a dress, Lina had succumbed to the urge for excitement and luxury. For who knew what life in Halarq would bring?

An affair with the Emir, that’s what!

Even now she found it hard to believe. The sight of Sayid Badawi, kneeling before her, undoing her shoes as she’d once knelt before him, removing his boots, made her tremble.

Did he remember that night?

Even then, despite her fear, she’d been attracted to him. She’d decided it wouldn’t be a hardship after all to share the Emir’s bed. Yet that attraction was a mere shadow of her feelings for him now.

He removed her shoe and put it aside, then slowly, oh, so slowly, rubbed firm fingers the length of her sole and up her calf. Lina splayed her hands on the bed as her bones liquefied and pleasure swelled.

‘Good?’ She opened flickering eyelids to see his glittering gaze sweep over her.

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