Sheikh's Scandal by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe [Monroe, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Adult
ISBN: 9781472094919
Google: 5tzzAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0373132395
Barnesnoble: 0373132395
Goodreads: 18812438
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

AS THE MINUTES wore on, a need for the restroom broke through Liyah’s consuming thoughts.

Loathe to interrupt Sayed in his furious typing on the computer he’d pulled out, she tried to ignore the growing urgency.

She grabbed a magazine from the pocket to the side of her chair and laid it on the table, hoping the glossy stories about other people’s lives would keep her mind occupied and off her biological needs. She flipped through the pages, nothing catching her attention.

Shifting slightly from one side to the other helped, but pretty soon she was going to have to ask Sayed to move.

Suddenly, he stopped typing and leaned toward her. “Are you all right, habibti?”

“Yes, I just, um...” Liyah wasn’t just repressed about sex, but found talking about any private bodily functions a trial.

Which was ridiculous, she realized. She was an adult woman, for goodness’ sake.

“You should have told me you were a virgin.” Sayed frowned at her. “I could have shown more restraint with you last night.”

“Are you trying to undo a lifetime of repression in a single day, or something?” If asking him to move so she could use the restroom would have been embarrassing, this was mortifying. “I’m fine.”

“You are clearly in pain.”

“I need to pee,” she huffed out in a furious whisper, frustrated by her own reticence and his insistence.

“Why did you not say so?” He rose, allowing her to exit her seat.

When she got back, she considered sitting across from him, but didn’t gainsay him when he stood again so she could retake her seat by the window.

Once she was settled in again, he handed her an electronic reader. “It has most of the recent bestsellers, but if you want to download something else, the plane is set up with wireless internet.”

“Thank you. The magazines would have been fine.”

“Nonsense. Though, really, you should probably take a nap.”

Startled, she asked, “I look tired?”

“Perhaps a little. It has been a full and wearing day.”

He could say that again. “For you, too, but I don’t see you dozing in your chair.”

“The last time I napped, stuffed animals still decorated my bed.” He smiled. “Getting six hours of sleep in a row is a luxury for me.”

“But that’s not healthy.”

He shrugged. “Such is the life of an emir taking over the responsibilities of a melech with no younger brother to take over my own diplomatic duties.”

“Why is your father abdicating? Does he have health issues?” she asked before realizing it was probably an invasive query. “Sorry, you don’t have to answer.”

“I never answer questions I do not wish to.”

“Arrogance has its benefits.”

He smiled. “I suppose so. I do not mind telling you my father is in excellent health.”

“Is he tired of being king?” she probed, trying to understand the heavy responsibilities being thrust on Sayed.

“Not at all.”

“Then why?”

“It is tradition.”

“Will your father take over the diplomatic stuff once he’s no longer acting melech?”

Sayed jerked, as if surprised by the question. “That would not be in line with Zeena Sahran tradition.

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