The Sultan's Virgin Bride by Sarah Morgan

Author:Sarah Morgan
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

They left at lunchtime, driving across the dusty sun-baked dunes towards the Caves of Zatua.

Farrah sat in silence, painfully aware of the feverish tension that was building between them. He was so close and she was aware of every move he made. Ignoring him had become impossible. What was it about this man that made it so difficult to breathe? Why was it that she couldn't look at him and not think about sex? She wasn't like that and never had been. She had plenty of male friends and she never once thought about sex in their company. With Tariq it seemed she could think about nothing else.

The attraction she felt was becoming almost intolerable. It was hard to be in such a confined space and not reach for him. She wanted to slide her hands through that luxuriant black hair, run her fingers along his roughened jaw and sink her teeth into his bronzed muscular shoulder. She wanted to strip his clothes off and see him naked! And yet not once during the fortnight they'd just spent together had he made a move in her direction.

After that first steamy kiss in the car on the way to the camp—a kiss that had been merely a maneuver on his part—he hadn't made a single sexual overture.

They'd talked, he'd taken her on endless trips and the}''d eaten meals together. Occasionally his hand lingered on hers a moment longer than was strictly necessary and sometimes she caught him looking at her with that deadly gleam in his eyes. But he hadn't kissed her again.

And yet neither of them could fail to be aware that the fortnight that he'd promised was now complete. Today was the last day.

When was he going to ask her for her decision?

And what was her decision going to be?

As she walked towards the entrance of the caves she thought of Nadia. Was this how she had felt before she'd plunged into her passionate affair with the Sultan? Had she had doubts or had love and passion swept away common sense?

In his usual decisive fashion, Tariq grasped her hand, his long strong fingers closing over hers.

`Come.' It was a command and she followed his lead, walking next to him into the huge cavern that guarded the entrance to the labyrinth of caves.

The first cavern was alight with flickering candles and intricately woven rugs had been placed on the ground. Tariq glanced around him with satisfaction.

Everything had been carried out exactly as he'd instructed.

He heard her shocked, delighted gasp and knew that the effort on his part had produced the desired response.

She turned to him, her gaze a mixture of delight and confusion. `It's so beautiful,' she breathed. `Who did this?’

'I did. I'm trying to demonstrate that I'm capable of romance.' His smile held a hint of wry self-mockery. `You've always loved these caves. They mean a great deal to you. which is why I have chosen to bring you here to ask you the question that has been on both our minds for the past two weeks.

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