Taken By the Sheikh by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-24T23:43:26+00:00

Another time it would have made Sadie smile gently to see how carefully Hakeem pronounced the unfamiliar word. But how could she smile when she had just heard about such a tragedy?

‘It is unusual to hear of a Dhurahni prince marrying a European girl,’ she told Hakeem, guessing that she was expected to make some comment on her story.

‘Not so here. Here it is tradition,’ Hakeem corrected her firmly.

Before Sadie could question her any further, she indicated a pair of heavily carved dark, polished doors in front of them, and said, ‘Ahmed will be waiting for you outside the doors to the women’s quarters to escort you to His Highness,sheikha .’ She then salaamed gracefully and backed away from Sadie.

‘Hakeem—’ Sadie began, about to question the maid’s manner of addressing her. But it was too late. The double doors were opening and Ahmed was now salaaming to her.

He led her not back to the room, where she had seen Drax last night, but down a corridor and then through a large room ornately decorated, its furniture heavily gilded and its low sofas piled high with richly jewelled silk cushions.

At one end there was a raised dais with two throne-like chairs on it, and Sadie guessed that the room must be the audience chamber where the brothers held their formaldivan —the event at which any subject could present his petition to his rulers and be heard.

However, they still had to negotiate another long corridor before finally Ahmed led her across a square hallway so plain in its architectural design and furnishings that the contrast between it and the rooms she had just seen was like receiving a glass of cold pure water after the stickiness of spiced wine.

The floor of the hallway was tiled with matt black tiles. A stairway led to an upper gallery, its banister carved out of some ebony-coloured wood, the symmetry of its curves so perfect and plain that it made Sadie catch her breath.

After knocking briefly on the closed double doors, and then opening them for her, indicating that she was to step through, Ahmed salaamed again and then backed away.

A little hesitantly, Sadie walked through the doors. The room beyond them was as modern and breathtaking as the hallway, and three times the size. It was a combination of a living area and an office, its furniture made from the same dark wood as the stairs, the seating streamlined and stylish.

A huge plate glass window looked out onto a courtyard, enclosed on three sides by the modern architecture of the building, with a large swimming pool at the far end.

Awed, she stared at the pool—and then realised it was occupied. Her heart thumped heavily into her ribs as she watched Drax place his hands on the walkway, his flesh hard and tanned, the water running off his shoulders and chest, and spring lithely out of the water, completely naked, before turning his back towards her as he reached for the robe on a recliner. Her heart was racing so frantically she had to breathe faster to keep up with it.

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