Kidnapped by the Sheikh by Katheryn Lane

Author:Katheryn Lane [Lane, Katheryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Sarah lay hot and exhausted on the floor of the sheikh’s tent. She knew that what she’d done was insane: letting herself be taken by a man she barely knew, a man who’d kidnapped her and was effectively holding her hostage in the middle of the desert. However, there was something about the mixture of fear and tension combined with the dry heat of the desert that had heightened her sexual awareness to such an extent that when she was confronted with an extremely handsome man trying to remove her clothes, she found it impossible to resist him. However, it wasn’t something she’d been forced into; far from it. It was something that she’d wanted and enjoyed as much as he had. In fact, he was quite unlike anything she’d ever experienced before. He had taken her to depths of pleasure that she hadn’t known existed until that afternoon. With her heart still racing from the exhilaration of it all, she moved closer towards him so that her body was pressed tightly against his.

“What will happen to me now?” she asked and kissed him softly on his ear.

“What would you like to happen?” he murmured into her hair.

“I’d like you to repeat everything you just did.”

“And when I’ve finished? What would you like to happen then?”

Sarah wasn’t sure. She rolled onto her back and stared up at the tent hangings above her while Akbar softly stroked her hair. Just a few hours ago, she wanted nothing more than to escape and go back to the city. However, she wasn’t so sure now, though she had no idea what the alternative was. She couldn’t possibly stay here in a tent in the middle of the desert, living with the Bedouin, but then a voice inside her head said, “Why not?” Why shouldn’t she live here with the sheikh? She could teach the women to read and write. She could help them with their illnesses and when they gave birth. Maternal mortality rates amongst the Bedouin women were still horrendously high and many of the women in the desert gave birth using practices that were practically medieval. Sarah could educate them and stop some of these women dying needlessly every year. She might even be able to put a halt to them marrying their cousins, which would reduce many of the terrible paediatric problems that she witnessed in the country.

Sarah’s grand schemes were interrupted by Akbar saying, “You’re a very strong and beautiful woman. I have a plan for your escape.”

“My escape?” Sarah was no longer sure that she wanted to.

“You can’t possibly stay here. As soon as my men discover that you’re not who you say you are, they’ll be angry and want to kill you.”

Sarah edged away and looked around for her blouse. “But they won’t kill me unless you tell them to, will they?”

“They might. You’ve dishonoured the Al-Zafir tribe.”

“What? By sleeping with you?”

“No. You’ve given me the greatest honour and pleasure it’s possible to give a man.” He reached over and placed his hand on her still naked stomach.

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