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She shuddered. She’d been like a woman possessed—urging him on as if she couldn’t get enough of him. It had been the very first time she’d ever let a man make love to her, and she’d been so greedy for him that she hadn’t wanted to wait. She felt the dull flush of shame as she acknowledged that she hadn’t even been ladylike enough to hold out for doing it in private—in a bed!Yet she knew what kind of man he was. Hadn’t she seen him in action often enough in the past? She’d lost count of the times she’d been dispatched to buy lastminute presents for his current squeeze—or bouquets of flowers when he was giving chase to a new woman.And what about when he started to cool towards the object of his affections, so that he became positively arctic overnight, usually three to four weeks into the ‘relationship’? She’d witnessed the faint frown and the shake of his head when she mouthed the name of some poor female whose voice was stuttering down the telephone line as she asked to speak to him
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‘A fumble?’ he interrupted furiously. ‘This is how you dare to describe what happened between us?’‘How would you describe it, then?’‘With a little more poetry and imagination than that!’‘Okay. That … that amazing sex we had, pressed up against the wall of your office.’ She sucked in a deep breath—because if she didn’t tell him what was bugging her then how would he know? ‘And you then treating me like a total stranger in the car before waltzing off to your fancy party at the embassy.’Theodore narrowed his eyes with sudden comprehension. So that was what this was about. She wanted what all women wanted. Recognition. A place on his arm to illustrate their closeness—to show the world their togetherness. But wasn’t she being a little presumptuous, in the circumstances?‘I didn’t touch you because I knew what would happen if I did—and I had no intention of walking into the party with the smell of your sex still on my skin. No.’ He shook his head as
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This is the last kind of place I’d have thought you’d choose,’ said Theodore slowly.Pamela looked up from the laminated menu, which she already knew by heart, and stared at the hawk-like beauty of the Prince’s autocratic features. ‘You don’t like it?’He looked around. It was noisy, warm and cluttered. Lighted candles dripped wax down the sides of old Chianti bottles, posters of Venice and Florence vied for wall-space with photos of Siena’s football team, and popular opera played softly in the background. He could remember eating somewhere like this years ago as a student, at the end of a rowdy rugby tour. But never since then. ‘It’s … different,’ he observed. ‘Not the kind of place I normally eat in. I thought you might have chosen somewhere …’‘Yes?’ Pamela raised her eyebrows.‘Somewhere a little more upmarket. The kind of place you’d always wanted to go but never had the chance.’Pamela put the menu down. ‘You mean somewhere like the Green Room at the Granchester? Or the River Te
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Ah, but my brother is King there now,’ he said, his voice hardening as he acknowledged the capricious law of succession and how it altered the lives of those who were affected by it. ‘And Zamorah became King very unexpectedly, which changed my place in the natural order of things.’Pamela looked at him. ‘How come?’‘Up until that moment I was just another desert Prince with the freedom to do pretty much as I wanted—but when our uncle died suddenly I became second in line to the throne. The spare.’‘And is that so bad?’ she prompted gently.‘Try living in a goldfish bowl and see how you like it,’ he said. ‘It means you have all the strictures of being the heir, but none of the power. My freedom was something I cherished above everything else …’ Hadn’t it been the one compensation for his lonely and isolated childhood? The fact that he hadn’t really had to account for himself? ‘And suddenly it was taken away from me. It made me want to stay away from Khoshorbhan, where I felt the people
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‘By “settling down”, I suppose you mean getting married and having children?’ he questioned.Pamela nodded. ‘I suppose so.’Theodore’s lips curved. She supposed so! ‘The perfect nuclear family?’‘Well—’‘Which doesn’t exist,’ he interjected.‘That’s a little harsh, Theodore.’‘Is it?’ Black eyes iced into her. ‘You experienced one yourself, did you?’‘Well, no. You know I didn’t. I told you that I never knew my father.’‘And it left a gaping hole in your life?’‘I tried never to think of it that way,’ she said defensively. ‘Holes can always be filled by something else. It may not have been a “normal” family life, but it was a life.’‘Well, I never knew a “normal” childhood, either,’ he said, more bitterly than he had intended.‘Can I … can I ask what happened?’He stared at her, and she looked so damned sweet and soft that he found himself telling her. ‘My mother almost died having me, and after I was born she was so ill that she needed round-the-clock care. Zamorah was that bit older
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However, Theodore had eventually lowered his emotional defenses and confided in her, sharing his deepest thoughts and feelings. This act of vulnerability had felt almost as intimate and profound as the physical connection they had shared. The prospect of returning home alone seemed unthinkable to her now, especially when she considered the alluring alternative he was presenting.As Theodore gestured for the check, he appeared to interpret her silence as agreement. The waiter approached their table, his expression marked by a worried frown."Is there something wrong with the food?" the waiter asked."The food is excellent," Theodore responded, giving Pamela's hand a reassuring squeeze. "But I find my companion's beauty incredibly distracting. So, we'll just take the bill, please."Pamela noticed the knowing look exchanged between Theodore and the waiter, and for a fleeting moment, she felt a pang of betrayal. She was no longer the confident woman who had been a regular patron of this e
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‘Theodore,’ she said slowly, laying down her pen and putting the churned up feeling in her stomach down to his tantalising proximity. ‘You know perfectly well that the office always runs smoothly in your absence. In fact, there’s a quiet air of calm around the place. People are that bit more relaxed when the big boss isn’t around.’He gave a slow smile as he loosened his tie and dropped it in front of her like a calling card. She sounded as unruffled as she always did when she spoke to him in the office—her cool air of composure barely slipping. Why, nobody would guess that the last time they’d seen each other she had been giving him oral sex in the back of his darkened limousine. Demonstrating yet another new-found sexual skill which she seemed to have adopted with her usual dexterity.And he had reciprocated by sliding his fingers beneath her skirt and bringing her to a shuddering orgasm just moments before he’d left the car to catch his flight to JFK.Yet to look at her now she see
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If only her own feelings were as straightforward. If only she hadn’t started to care. Really care. She wondered if it was normal for a woman to become a little more emotionally vulnerable every time her man made love to her. For her to start wanting things she knew she wasn’t supposed to want—things he’d specifically warned her against? Things that Theodore was renowned for never delivering—and especially to a woman like her. Stuff like commitment and happy-ever-after.‘Pamela?’She closed her eyes, letting go of the last of her troubled thoughts, allowing pure and delicious sensation to take over instead. ‘Yes,’ she whispered, as he pushed her down onto the floor and sank down beside her. ‘Oh, yes.’His fingers were on her flesh now, stroking open the moist and heated flesh at the very core of her, and he was saying, “Oh God!” on a shuddered breath, his mouth high on her thigh.‘Theodore—’ His tongue had reached the most sensitive part of her anatomy, and Pamela gave a little gasp of
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