Surrender to the Sheikh by Diana Fraser

Author:Diana Fraser [Fraser, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bay Books

Chapter 7

The desert sky at night usually comforted Elaheh, but not tonight.

Tonight, everything was too bright—from the star-sprinkled sky, to the lop-sided waning moon, no longer full but still shining too brightly onto the open plains which led to the desert castle of Havilah.

Elaheh bit her lip and stared out the car window, wishing the stony plains, burnished silver under the moonlight, would sink into the dark oblivion of the inky shadows which pooled beneath the rocky outcrops and be hidden from the world. And her along with it.

She didn’t want anyone to see her.

She didn’t want the world to bear witness to her fears.

She glanced at Xander who drove in silence, his narrowed gaze either looking directly ahead, or, occasionally, into his rear-vision mirror, to check his security team were still following. The lights from their cars confirmed their presence. Yet more lights in a world that seemed to be conspiring against her.

She looked out the window again. Despite the fact they were seated side by side, she felt distant from Xander, which was how she wanted to keep it. But she knew his intention was the opposite and it scared the hell out of her.

It had been easy to keep her fears at bay over the years—buried deep inside her, topped with the cement lid of her willpower—but that cement lid had been smashed by Xander. She’d gone over and over their conversation in her mind, trying to figure out how Xander had gotten her to tell him her secret. She’d decided she’d have been able to hold on to her secret if he hadn’t touched her.

She closed her eyes at the memory of how that simple touch to her arm—a caress so gentle and yet so insistent—had sent an invisible charge which had broken her defenses and sent the truth pouring out, leaving her afraid and wanting to crawl into the darkness where no one could get to her.

She swallowed and folded her arms across her stomach, trying to settle the rapid beating of her heart and the queasiness in her stomach.

Then she felt his swift gaze upon her and she felt as exposed as if she lay naked on the star-lit plain. Their gaze tangled briefly before they both abruptly looked away.

“There’s nothing to be afraid of, Ela,” Xander said quietly, as they approached the looming outline of the castle. “I would never hurt you, or do anything you don’t want to do. You know that, don’t you?”

She nodded. He also had an uncanny way of knowing how she was feeling. Xander, the arrogant playboy, had hidden depths about which she knew nothing.

“Don’t you?” He repeated the question, not seeing the movement of her head in the shadowy car.

“Yes,” she said, because it was true. Despite all her profound fears she trusted Xander, or else she wouldn’t have come. She cleared her throat. “Yes,” she repeated, louder. “I do.”

“Good,” he said. She could hear his relief in the exhaled word. “We should arrive in five minutes.”

Fear

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