Shadow of the Sheikh by Nina Bruhns

Author:Nina Bruhns
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Gemma did her best not to be terrified out of her wits. She’d never seen Shahin this angry before. He’d leashed the earthquakes, but his otherworldly energy swirled in the air around him, so thick and heavy you could almost touch it.

But she knew he wouldn’t hurt her. He wouldn’t. After the night they’d had together, she refused to believe it of him.

Even though her mind screamed at her Shrink back! Escape! she stepped closer to him. And closer still. Until she stood right in front of him, her body brushing against his.

He might deny he had feelings for her, but she knew better. She knew exactly what kind of feelings he had for her.

His eyes narrowed to black slits. But trust was not among those sentiments.

Why?

He was like a different person from last night. One who didn’t even see her. She wondered what had happened in his past to make the man so hard and cold on the outside. She knew very well he wasn’t that way on the inside. She’d had ample proof of it last night.

“Shahin,” she said, striving to sound far calmer than she felt. “You don’t want to do this.”

“But I do,” he refuted, and reached for her.

At the touch of his hands, his magical energy crept up her arms like a bath of warm fur. It melted over her, higher and lower, enveloping her whole body, taking control of her, robbing her of her strength. She shivered. Loving how it felt…knowing she shouldn’t let herself succumb to it. Such a show of domination, of supernatural “otherness” should frighten her. But it just felt…good.

She couldn’t help herself, she put her arms around him. He stiffened. “Just how will you torture me?” she asked seductively.

He was silent for several heartbeats. At length, he said, “You are either a very brave or a very foolish woman, Gemma Haliday.”

He wasn’t the first person to tell her that. Mostly it had been a comment on her returning again and again to Egypt to do her ethnographical fieldwork. But just as her love for this country was too complicated to explain, so were her feelings for this man. He’d hurt her just now, denying their connection so brutally. But she didn’t believe him. Perhaps bravely, perhaps foolishly, she trusted Egypt to keep her safe. And she trusted Shahin as well.

She looked up at him and felt herself drowning in the press of his overwhelming power. It was like sinking underwater, except she could breathe. Sort of.

He mirrored her gaze evenly. “I could bespell you,” he said, “and you would tell me everything you know.”

“Which is nothing,” she returned. “How could I? I’ve been here with you for two days.”

“But you know your sister,” he pointed out. “I could shower you with pain, and you would beg to tell me where she is so that it would stop.”

“You wouldn’t do that,” she said without hesitation. “You’re not that cruel.”

He stared at her for a long moment. “I could touch you,”

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