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at? This is my life. Don't you get it? You can't just tell me that I don’t need to know what is happening with my life .”
    There was a spark in his eyes, and suddenly he seemed much larger. He towered over her like a storm cloud, and even though a small part of her told her that lightning was going to strike, she stood up tall, tilting her chin up and daring him to do what he thought he could.
    “I think that I am doing exactly as I please,” he said, his voice a low rumble. “Which is what I have paid for. They told me you were a virgin…should I test that?”
    Emily could have snapped her teeth at him.
    “They already did,” she said, her voice only trembling a little. “They already did, and at least they had the…the courtesy to tell me what they were doing! They didn't keep me in the dark. No matter what terrible thing they were going to do, they told me! What you are doing—hanging my fate over my head as if it were some kind of prize that I have to leap for—this is worse!”
    He closed the space between them in one giant stride, and she had never felt as small or as vulnerable as she did just then. Instead of cowering though, Emily lifted her chin and met his eyes. She would be damned if he got her to cringe away like some kind of abused animal.
    “I can show you worse,” he growled, and there was a threat of thunder in his voice. “I can show you much, much worse, little beauty…”
    This time, when he wrapped his arms around her, there was nothing gentle and nothing tender about it. He crushed her to his body, and she couldn’t miss his response to her. His erection pressed against her belly, making her almost painfully aware of how he wanted her.
    When Adnan's mouth swooped down on hers, his kiss was punishing. It would have bruised her if it were just a little harsher, and she could feel the teeth in it and the tearing need as well.
    “I could strip you naked,” he growled into her mouth. “I could pin you to the bed and open you up, without caring how much it hurt you or what you thought about it. I could open every part of you—I could claim it for my own…”
    She should be afraid. She should be terrified . Instead, she felt her defiance flame even higher.
    “You wouldn't,” she whispered. “Not like that.”
    The moment she said it, she knew it to be true, and she threw her arms around him. He had shown her how to kiss so brutally, and now she turned it back on him. She pressed her lips hard against his. She wanted to show him that she would not be cowed or frightened, she would not be silenced. More than that though, at the bottom of it, she wanted him. When she was in his arms, she felt safe, and there was nothing, she realized, that would change that.
    She could feel him wavering. She could feel the passion trembling at the limit of his skin, how desire would trump anger or better judgment in just a few moments. In just a few moments, everything would change. The thought made her flinch a little, and as connected as they were in that moment, he could feel it too.
    When he pulled back from her this time, there was a gentleness to it, and a control that he had lost previously.
    “You could tempt an angel to sin,” he said, “but we are not doing this now.”
    She opened her mouth to argue—though to argue what she didn't even know—but he was turning away.
    “Stay here,” he said sternly. “There are men on guard at the door. You will not like what happens if you try to get past them.”
    With nothing more than that, he was through the door, leaving her behind in silence.
    ***
    Adnan did not catch his breath until he was at the small cafe on the ground floor of the hotel. When he did, he wondered if his face was as red as it felt. He hadn't been lying when he called her tempting.
    If he were honest with himself, he had never expected it to be this difficult to stay away from her, from Emily. When he saw her that first night, kneeling down in front of him, he had felt pity for