Arabian Nights by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780440102144
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1983-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

A COOL BREEZE WAFTING in from the Persian Gulf with the coming of twilight touched her cheeks like a soft caress as she stood at the open window. Below her she could see a blanket of brilliant green spotted by rainbow colors: Sheikh Ali Sur Sheriff’s town palace gardens. The place was beautiful, and in direct contrast with the desert. Beyond the palace walls were the streets of Abu Dhabi. Camels, donkey carts and horses traversed the roads, but so did automobiles. The majority of the people who rushed home from their businesses were in Arab dress, but there were a number of smart European business suits to be seen also.

There was even an occasional female who walked past in the distance in Western dress. Some of these women, Alex knew, were the wives of diplomats, or employees of the various Western concerns within the city. But some of them were actually Arabian women; women who were being educated, women who might one day bring about change in an ancient way of life.

Ali did not resent the change he deemed to be inevitable. For one thing, he didn’t believe it would come in his lifetime. He spoke of the Bedouin way of life with a little sigh and great wistfulness, as if he would miss it dearly were it to be taken from him, but he would also tell her with pride that modern highways were being planned across the land, that the newspapers and fledgling television stations were flourishing, and that one day modern plumbing and electricity would stretch as far as his desert hideaway, the oasis he called his own.

She had come to know a great deal about both Ali and Dan in the last twenty-four hours—mainly that both were very human. She had been a bit surprised to find herself fed and then shipped off to bed upon their return to Ali’s camp, both men having decided for her that she had to be exhausted. She had nervously asked Dan if she was not expected to pay up, but she had seen a warmth in the jet fire of his eyes when he answered that she had never noticed there before. He had given his deep, husky chuckle, and she seemed a bit taken aback when he had announced, “Really, Alex, I’m not a sadist!”

She had slept like one dead, to awake in the morning to discover that he had slept with her. The indentations in the sheets and the pillow beside her were still warm. In a bit of confusion she wondered if something had gone on after all, but she quickly dismissed such a notion. If a man such as Dan D’Alesio had held her with anything more than simple comfort, she would have known.

Alex had learned almost immediately upon awakening that they were leaving, heading back toward the city. And she was thankful that their route back was to be far different from the way she had first come to Ali’s oasis. The

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