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“It was okay,” she said finally and tried her best not to turn red when the sheikh smirked at her answer.
Stop acting like a ninny, Anisah!
Anisah pulled the covers up to her neck in an effort to regain her composure. It must be because she was still naked under this cursedly thin sheet while the sheikh was fully dressed. That was why she was acting so unnaturally silly. Her lack of clothes made her feel vulnerable and exposed, and it was why her heart was banging so hard against her chest and why her breasts started to feel swollen and heavy when she noticed the possessive heat in his gaze.
That was all, she told herself doggedly, and nothing else.
Squaring her shoulders, she met the sheikh’s gaze with a scowl and said as firmly as she could, “I meant what I said, Your Highness. This is still an affair in the guise of a temporary engagement, we’re still free to break things off whenever we want, and you’re still not – ”
“Has anyone told you you’re a romantic?” the sheikh asked with a grin.
“Well...” Anisah had to think about this.
“Because whoever did was lying his head off.”
Anisah made a face, and he grinned. “To say the truth is to show you respect, nem?”
“You—-you—-oh!” How she hated it when he ended up having the last word! Annoyed at being verbally thwarted, Anisah made a furious yank of the covers in a fit of frustration, and she swung her legs off the bed as soon as she had the covers wrapped securely around her body. She knew she was acting like a child throwing a tantrum, but she didn’t care. She just needed time and space to think –
Oh!
The sheikh had captured her wrist from behind and she found herself forced to turn around. “Please let go—-” Her voice trailed off.
The sheikh was holding out a small box open in his hands, and in it was the most exquisite ring: a thirty-carat diamond surrounded by a band of amethysts.
Anisah paled. “Sheikh—-”
“Tarif, my sweet,” the sheikh chided. “I’m your fiancé now, remember?”
When he started to take the ring out of the box, Anisah unthinkingly hid both her hands behind her back, forgetting in her panic that this would cause the sheet to fall off her body. All she could think about was preventing him from doing so terrifyingly symbolic.
The ring the sheikh held in his hand didn’t look like something he’d have purchased from Tiffany’s or one of the country’s famous jewelers. Instead, it looked old, the kind that seemed to have passed from generation to generation, the kind that only a woman who had every right to be the sheikh’s bride should – wait a minute.
Why was the sheikh grinning?
A frown worked its way on her forehead as she slowly looked down, following his line of sight, and that was when she realized he had been staring at her naked breasts all this time.
Oh, curse this life!
The sheikh captured her left hand as she hastily bent down to retrieve the covers, and Anisah ended up struggling to wrap the sheet around her body single-handedly. “Please let go—-” Her voice faltered when the sheikh tightened his grip while holding the ring over her captured hand.
Tarif’s broad shoulders rocked with silent laughter as Anisah started struggling against his hold like he had turned into a serial killer. “Cease your struggles—-”
“No!”
“You know you won’t win—-”
“Nooooooo!”
But it was as the sheikh had said, and Anisah cringed when the sheikh finally managed to slide the ring down her finger, and to top things off, the darn thing even proved to be an infernally perfect fit.
Oh, may Allah save her, but how did it come to this?
The sheikh’s lips pressed together as he watched Anisah stare at the ring like it was a ghost wrapped around her finger. He knew he should be offended, but if anything, this only made him want her more. “What do you think of it, anisdi?” he asked huskily.
But his beautiful harpy only glared at him in stubborn silence.
“Very well then...” Grabbing her hand, he started sucking her fingers one by one and was rewarded by the sound of her whimpers. “If you don’t answer me...” His mouth moved down, and he licked a line against her soft palm. “This is how I’ll punish you.” The sheikh’s glittering eyes captured hers as she shuddered helplessly in his hold. “Do you understand?”
