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“So you love me, and your relationship with my brother is simply platonic,” he clarified, when he trusted himself to speak.
“No,” the word was wrapped around her yawn.
“No?” Fear plunged through him.
“I thought I loved you. Past tense. But that was stupid. It’s probably perfectly natural to feel that way when you’ve just … slept with someone for the first time. Especially someone like you. I thought I loved you, but I know now that was just a stupid, childish response. By the time I worked that out, I’d become friends with Ra’if. I really care about him. And I like spending time with him. Why I come to visit him now has nothing to do with you, Zamir.”
Zamir swallowed. “My brother is in recovery from a serious and prolonged drug addiction. Did it not occur to you that you might be playing with his emotions at a time when he is vulnerable?”
“No,” she said simply. “Ra’if and I are friends. That’s all.”
Zamir didn’t respond. He couldn’t. Her words and her intoxicating fragrance and her presence beside him were combining to swamp his senses.
They drove in silence for several miles, then Zamir chanced a look in her direction. Her face was angled away from him. Her body was folded against the door, as though she wanted to get away from him within the confines of the car.
His eyes drifted lower, to her legs that were pressed together at the knees. Legs that had wrapped around him and held him to her heart. He groaned softly.
“You look frail.” He muttered, turning his focus back to the road.
Olivia didn’t reply.
She was asleep.
He was torn between letting her sleep and shaking her awake. Only the slight worry that she might have seriously injured her head caused him to reach across and tap her thigh.
“Don’t,” she batted his fingers away, instantly jolted into wakefulness.
He removed his hand; his mouth was a slash in his face. “You have hurt your head. You may have a concussion.”
“I don’t have a concussion,” she muttered. “I’m tired. And I don’t want to talk to you.”
She closed her eyes again and slipped almost immediately back into a solid slumber.
Which was perfect for Zamir, for it gave him a chance to put into motion a plan that would resolve the issue of Olivia Henderson once and for all.
Chapter 10
The car was bumping. Olivia shifted in the seat, keeping her eyes resolutely shut. Fragments of what had happened punctuated her dreamy fog, but she wilfully pushed them away.
Or tried to, at least.
Zamir’s eyes, hauntingly bright like a tiger’s, were boring into her mind from within her thoughts. She shifted again.
More bumping, only it didn’t feel like potholes in the road. This was more like turbulence on board an aeroplane.
An aeroplane!
Her eyes sprung open and scanned her immediate surrounds.
Confusion clouded her. It was like the most luxurious room she’d ever been in, only sure enough, the little portal windows on the wall showed that she was on board a flight.
But why?
She lifted a hand to her head and felt the bump there. Had she concussed herself after all? She certainly felt as though she’d stepped into a vortex of the twilight zone.
She reached down and unclipped her belt, despite the little light in the roof indicating that seatbelts should be worn. She stood and scanned the room.
Zamir.
