Their Desert Night of Scandal

es with him. Tahir watched him fidget with the papers in his leather-bound folder, straighten corners that didn't need straightening, place the

croscopic inspection of each fingernail for dirt and brushed invisible l

abir,' Tahir said after a full minute, attempting and failing to keep impatience from

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se days, he couldn't afford to be

at a toddler's party, were far behind him. Smothered to death by a far too close brush with a

repay it in his next. Hoped to have done enough in this life to erase the

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the surfeit of emotions trigg

ty,' Ali replied, shif

ir's constant disgruntlement, was 'living his best life', which inevitably meant dragging Tahir's treasured homeland of Jukrat

m be because, when he cast aside his playboy ways long enough to do his duty, Javid was the most astute diplomat Tahir had ev

ed to seduce the clothes off some of the most beautiful and influ

his spotlight was much brighter as the unmarried ruler of Jukrat, but bec

nted memory jaunt, he fixed a gimlet st

jesty. No, this isn't about your brother. His

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