Stolen for His Desert Throne by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-01-20T18:46:24+00:00

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Liah saw the hot light in Kamal’s eyes and the promise of pleasure only he had ever fulfilled. Need ricocheted through her over-sensitised body. She was playing with fire now. She got that, because a relaxed and self-satisfied Kamal Zokan was even more dangerous than a furious or dictatorial one.

Who knew?

But, even so, she couldn’t stop the question she had been waiting to ask him ever since that morning from bursting out of her mouth.

‘Why didn’t you tell me we had met before when we were children?’

He stiffened and straightened against the rock, no longer smug. But the guarded look in his eyes, and the wary tension which made the muscle in his jaw jump, told her all she needed to know. She had been right. The man who would soon be King of Zokar and that abused serving boy were one and the same person.

His gaze became hooded. ‘I do not know what you refer to,’ he said evasively, but the defensive tone only confirmed her suspicions.

Her father had told her Kamal had an unusual background for a prince, but she’d had no idea he had managed to gain the throne after such a tough start.

Apparently he seemed determined to hide the fact, though. But why?

She huffed out a breath, the nuclear blush from that morning’s realisation heating her skin all over again as he studied her intently. She was going to have to reveal why she had recognised him all of a sudden.

Terrific.

She swallowed past the dryness in her throat then blurted out the truth.

‘I went to the pool this morning to wash out some of my clothes. But you were already there...bathing.’

His gaze narrowed, the feral light in his eyes making the heat flare at her core. But with it came the flicker of shame.

‘You...you had your back to me,’ she added.

The muscle in his jaw twitched as he clenched his teeth. ‘You spied on me?’

She broke eye contact. ‘Yes, I guess I did. And I’m sorry.’ She forced her gaze back to his despite the guilt prickling over her skin. ‘Something about you always seemed familiar, ever since we first met at the track.’

She gulped down the blockage in her throat as he simply stared at her, his expression deliberately blank. ‘But I couldn’t put my finger on it. Probably because I’d met you so long ago. But when I saw the scars on your back, it all came back to me. That afternoon during our state visit to Zokar. The serving boy who was so brutally punished by his employer for such a minor infraction. The violence shocked me at the time, probably because I’d led a rather sheltered life.’ She was babbling now, but she couldn’t seem to stop, her heart in her throat as he stared at her, the blank expression making the ache in her stomach so much worse.

What must it have been like to be treated with such casual cruelty? How had he survived it? Had there been no

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