Harlequin Medical Romance August 2016--Box Set 1 of 2 by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488006364
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE MOMENT THEY stepped through the penthouse door that evening, Dakan pulled off the robe and keffiyeh. If he got to be here with her for a couple of days, he’d do it as freely as he could, squeak every ounce of pleasure out of their time together, no room for the negatives that crept in when he was alone.

Once he told Nira about Prince Jibril, the peace he felt with her would come to an end. That idea ate at him, made him want to keep her close for as long as he could. Made him spend all day ignoring the ticking clock because he didn’t like how it made him feel.

He hadn’t been thinking about a long thing between them anyway. But he wasn’t ready for it to end yet.

“Do you need Tahira to clean your robes for tomorrow?” Nira asked, eyeing his exceedingly rumpled casual outfit he’d been wearing beneath. “Looks more comfortable than your usual suit.”

Hearing her name, the housekeeper appeared, informed them that dinner was nearly ready, and spirited away the discarded clothing to launder.

Dakan flopped onto the couch and leaned back, closing his eyes.

Tomorrow. He’d tell her tomorrow. Tonight he’d enjoy the bubble of peace in this place.

“You look like you’ve just run a marathon,” she said from very close by a short time later. “Or maybe like you’re very drunk.”

“Sleepy,” he murmured, then opened his eyes to baggy green shorts and a T-shirt.

It wasn’t revealing at all, but after spending so much time with her, and only seeing only her hands and face, the display of shapely tanned legs and the braless wonderland that was her chest… “You’re the one dressed for bed.”

“Yep,” she said, sitting beside him, crawling under his arm and settling her cheek against his chest. “I need to ask you a question.”

It was all very innocent, but it still made his mind race. She tucked her feet up under her and got comfortable.

“Ask away.”

“You’ve been different today. I noticed it right away, and I thought at first maybe it was because you were sleepy, but it stayed with you all day. You’re different when you’re with people than you are with me. Actually, you’re different with your patients too. Not just little kids, I don’t think. I noticed it with the man at the hospital, but I didn’t really put it together until I got to know you better.”

He let his hand cup her shoulder, holding her there against him as they relaxed. “Different how?” He knew he behaved differently at different times, but he’d thought of the difference as upholding expectations—something everyone did.

“Stiff.”

“With who?”

“Just with people you’re interacting with. You even kind of do it here, not with me but with Tahira. You just suddenly stop being Dakan and become Prince Dakan. And then when you were with the little girl today you were Dr. Dakan, I guess. But he’s more like regular Dakan than Prince Dakan. And when you were holding her and talking to her mother? It was really split.

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