Uncorked for the Sheikh: A Royal Billionaire Romance Novel (Curves for Sheikhs Series Book 14) by Annabelle Winters

Author:Annabelle Winters [Winters, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Rainshine
Published: 2018-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

14

“What does it mean?” Nat asked Peggy as the two of them sipped on the pinot she’d just opened. Nat had barely gotten through half a glass, when ordinarily she’d be opening the second bottle by now.

The Sheikh had flown back to Washington that morning, promising to be back by the evening to fulfill his part of the deal to visit with her for an entire week. Nat had rolled her eyes and waved her hand, a part of her certain that the next time she heard his name it would be on an eviction notice handed to her by a construction crew driving bulldozers onto her precious vineyard to turn it into a sand-pit. But another part of her was terrified . . . terrified that he would return, that he would stay with her for a week, that this feeling growing inside her would continue to grow, continue to blossom, continue to give her false hope, trick her into dreaming a dream that couldn’t possibly come true.

And here she was sipping her wine hesitantly, like it was poison. Nat blinked as she looked at the dark red liquid, and then she slowly pushed the glass away as she touched her round belly. Again that feeling of guilt mixed with excitement ripped through her as she thought about the previous day with the Sheikh.

They hadn’t slept in the same room, but that was only because they’d barely slept at all. After he’d finished in her, she’d finished the grand tour of the vineyard and the winery buildings, showing him the vats where they aged the wine, the small but efficient bottling facility, even the room where she printed the labels. He’d seemed reasonably interested for someone who thought alcohol was the drink of the devil, and although Nat hadn’t pushed the issue, she’d certainly noticed a look that she interpreted as nostalgia when she saw how the Sheikh’s eyes took on a far-off focus when they talked about the history of wine and its place in almost every great civilization.

“Arab culture has its own intoxicants,” the Sheikh had told her when they talked of the Greeks and the Romans and Japanese rice-wine and how ancient armies survived on wine instead of water because wine didn’t get contaminated when carried on long expeditions. “Did you know the term assassin comes from the word hashish? It was named after the elite forces in ancient Arabian armies, men and women who smoked themselves into a religious fervor before eliminating their targets.”

“Women? In ancient armies? I thought the Arab world kept their women veiled, uneducated, and locked up in harems,” Nat had quipped as they strolled past the large silent vats of not-so-ancient wine.

“Only the curvy white women they kidnap,” the Sheikh had replied, doing his best to hold back his smile. “The rest of our women get high and kill people in secret.”

Nat had laughed, linking her arm with his as they walked together like they’d known each other forever. She’d been

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