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‘Yes?’ he prompted.
‘You want me to stay longer than eighteen months?’
‘I want you beside me every day...’ His voice dropped a shivery, sexy octave as he whispered, ‘Every night,’ against the sensitive skin of her earlobe. He stopped nuzzling her neck and lifted his head to stare down into her face with an expression that stopped her heart as he caught her hand and pressed it to his chest. ‘I want you beside me always. I love you and I could not do this...any of it, without you.’
What could she say to that? With stars in her eyes Abby linked her arms around his neck. ‘You saved my life; I think I owe you mine.’
‘I don’t want your gratitude, Abby. I want your heart, your love.’
She looked at him with shining eyes and whispered, ‘You have both.’
Zain’s eyes blazed with love as he took her hands and pressed them to his lips. ‘I will keep them safe, I promise.’
Abby lifted her face to his kiss with a blissful sigh. ‘I’m going to have to learn some languages.’
‘The language of love is the only one that counts,’ he said, leading her by the hand to the horse. Heaving himself with no seeming effort into the saddle, he held out a hand, which she took. A moment later she was sitting in front of him.
‘Are we going home?’
‘I like the way you say that, but no, I thought we might detour. There is a certain oasis I know.’
The wind caught her hair and whipped her laugh away as he kicked the King of the Night into a gallop across the red sand. It felt as though they were the only two people on earth and she liked it.
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