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Suddenly Clemmie didn’t want him to say anything. That frankness she had wanted now seemed so dangerous, so threatening. Yet she had pushed him to say it and she couldn’t find the words to stop him. It was too late.

‘I do want you.’

Karim’s black eyes burned down into her wide amber ones, searing right into her thoughts.

‘Never doubt it. I want you so much that it’s tearing me to pieces not to have you. But what does that do for us?’

‘It … You know it was an arranged marriage. One I had no part in … no agreement given. I was just a child. My father sold me!’

‘The agreement is still binding. You are here to become Nabil’s Queen.’

‘But not yet …’ she said.