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“It’s No Wonder People Fall In Love In The Desert.”

Prince Omar’s jaw tightened at Jana’s words, but she was looking at the distant dunes and did not notice. “Do you think so?”

The tone of the sheikh’s voice startled her, so full of cynical unhappiness that she turned and blinked at him. “Don’t you?”

“I have never loved the desert or thought it inspired love,” he said flatly.

She watched him for a moment under the starlight. “What do you love, then?”

He gave a bark of laughter. “You speak as if everyone must love something.”

“A person would have to be very hard not to love someone, some part of the world,” Jana said mildly. “So hard they couldn’t be called human.”

“Oh, I am human,” he replied, reaching through the moonlight to touch her hair. “And I have you to remind me that I am a man....”