Sold to the Sheikh by Chloe Cox

Author:Chloe Cox [Cox, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B009X1P7KA
Published: 2012-10-25T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Stella had no idea how long she laid like that, across the Sheikh’s lap. When she finally began to pay attention, she noticed the sounds of brunch had resumed, though the Sheikh was still rubbing her back. She lifted her head slightly, and he caught her.

“Don’t try to get up on your own, Stella,” he said. “Let me help you.”

He turned her over and scooped her up, holding her naked in his arms, and setting her down securely in his lap. She felt a gentle hand on her cheek.

“You did very well, Stella. I believe you will keep your promises, as I always keep mine.”

Stella half-jerked awake, wanting to look into the Sheikh’s eyes. That seemed important. His eyes were two black pools of utter calm. They looked the way she felt on the inside.

“Are you satisfied, Roman?” he said, not taking his eyes off of her.

Again, Roman laughed. “Oh, yes. No concerns. Have fun.”

Without another word, Sheikh Bashir stood, holding Stella as though she weighed nothing at all, and carried her over to a private corner booth. It hardly seemed to matter that she was still naked. It fit her mental state: raw, vulnerable, stripped of all artifice. Sheikh Bashir sat with care, wrapping her in his huge arms and holding her close. Stella’s defenses were completely down. It was almost as if she didn’t need them, cradled in his arms.

He stroked her body for a while, her cheek, her arms, her thigh, leaving her with a slight buzz that tingled over her skin. Finally, he said, “It was important to you that I came back for you, at the Alexandria Club.”

Stella murmured, “No one ever comes back. They always just leave.”

She’d said it without thinking, but her words penetrated the pleasant fog she’d been in since her spanking and woke her up. She couldn’t believe she’d just said that. It was so starkly true, and so obviously a pathetic sentiment. She didn’t want to sound pathetic. She didn’t want to be pathetic.

“Shhh,” the Sheikh said, and kissed her forehead, stroking her back to a state of calm. He seemed to know he’d veered close to dangerous territory, and now he went in a different direction. “You were very good with Ms. Kincaid,” he said.

She sighed. “I volunteered with folks like her for a while.”

“That work was important to you?”

“Very.” She nodded into his chest.

“Why were you drawn to that, Stella?”

It seemed like such an innocent, easy question, that at first it didn’t set any alarm bells off at all. But so close to what he’d just asked her, so close to what she’d just said about people leaving… Stella hadn’t made the connection herself until he’d brought the two things side by side, but now it was there, indelible, undeniable. Of course there was a connection between her own shitty childhood and her desire to help people who had no one to care for them. It seemed so obvious.

Like he knew.

But it was just too big for her to wrap her mind around it.

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