The Sheikh's Virgin Bride by Penny Jordan

Author:Penny Jordan [Jordan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-24T23:45:52+00:00

PENNY JORDAN

95

I’ve got to make him change his mind and refuse to even countenance the idea.’

‘Have you thought that he may feel the same way about this situation as you do yourself? Have you thought of contacting him and perhaps discussing things with him?’

Petra gave him a withering look.

‘Unlike me, he has had the chance to refuse to become involved! After all, without his tacit acceptance the whole situation could simply not exist. Anyway, why are you suddenly so keen to promote him? Don’t you want to earn five thousand pounds any more?’ she demanded.

Or was it perhaps that he wanted her out of his life because he had sensed how she felt about him? A man like him would quite definitely not want the complications of having a woman fall in love with him!

Fall in love? But she hadn’t done that, had she? Petra closed her eyes in helpless self-anger. Hadn’t she got enough unwanted emotional pain to carry through life as excess baggage already, without deliberately inviting more?

‘Hang on tight. We’ll be leaving the highway soon and going into true desert terrain,’ Blaize warned her, without taking his eyes off the road.

Petra gasped and clung to her seat as they veered off the road and crested the first of a series of sand dunes, following what to her was a barely discernible track—although Blaize did not seem to be having any trouble in finding and following it.

Within minutes it seemed to Petra the road had vanished and the landscape had become a vast expanse of sand dunes, stretching from horizon to horizon. A little anxiously she swivelled round in her seat, craning her neck to look in the direction they had just come.

‘How...how do you know the way?’ she asked Blaize a little uncertainly.

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