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‘I know. The feeling is shared and returned.’
‘And there’s a spare hour to fill before the palace banquet,’ he said a little unsteadily. ‘Shall we go to bed?’
She opened her eyes. ‘You’re insatiable.’
‘I thought you liked me that way.’
‘I like you any way I can get you,’ she whispered back. ‘But preferably without any clothes on and nobody else around.’
‘You are a shameless woman, Leila Steel.’
‘Lucky that’s the way you like me,’ she teased.
‘I know,’ he said. ‘I never stop reminding myself how lucky I am.’
And this was the greatest of the many truths he’d discovered in a life now lived without pretence, or fear or regret.
Next week was his birthday but he wouldn’t be seeking to blot out the past with a bottle of Scotch and oblivion. He would be embracing the golden and glorious present with his wife and their beloved baby son.
And he would be telling Leila how much he loved her, just as he did every single day of his life. His beautiful Qurhahian princess who had brought his heart to life with the power of her love. Just as the rains fed the dormant flower seeds, to bring the desert miracle to the Mekathasinian Sands.
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