A freaking palace! She pinched herself. Women from rural Nebraska didn’t end up in a Persian Gulf country as a guest of a king. They either married too young for all the wrong reasons or got the hell out. She had done both. Married at eighteen and widowed by twenty. But not without a few broken b...
He enjoyed undressing her, but his work today was purely professional. Try convincing Victoria of that, he thought. As she reached for his shirt, he placed his hands on her shoulders and urged her onto the feather mattress. “Stop it right now, or I’ll have your brother do ...
“You’re not sleeping here with me. There’s only one little bed.” “How many beds does a honeymooning couple need? Mustafa insisted we use the room. I couldn’t insult his hospitality.” She sucked in a deep breath, looking as if she were about to explode. Before she got a single word out, he pushed ...
She inhaled deeply. The peaks and valleys that had made up the last few weeks of her life left her physically exhausted and emotionally drained. Elena entered the kitchen and sat in the chair. "How's it going?” She rested her elbows on the table and propped her head up wi...