Never Seduce a Sheikh (International Bad Boys book 2)
“Then, she waited until the woman was gone and put it down on her plate, uneaten.
Another celebration had gotten underway, this time to celebrate the oil contract, the tent full of music and laughter and the loud hum of a hundred people all talking at once.
She should be feeling triumphant, her goal achieved, the oil rights secured for Harkness despite the odds. The board would be pleased, her position consolidated, and no doubt a nice fat bonus would be waiting in her bank account once the cont...ract had been announced.
But all of that didn’t seem to matter. In fact, if anything, it felt rather empty.
Her gaze kept returning to the man who sat down the other end of the banquet table, talking to his people in the soft Arabic she’d started to love hearing. They were laughing at something he’d said and he smiled, a warm, charismatic presence that the whole table seemed to respond to.
A lump rose in her throat, a strange longing she didn’t understand curling tightly in her chest. She looked away, unable to bear the sight of him all of a sudden.MoreLess
Another celebration had gotten underway, this time to celebrate the oil contract, the tent full of music and laughter and the loud hum of a hundred people all talking at once.
She should be feeling triumphant, her goal achieved, the oil rights secured for Harkness despite the odds. The board would be pleased, her position consolidated, and no doubt a nice fat bonus would be waiting in her bank account once the cont...ract had been announced.
But all of that didn’t seem to matter. In fact, if anything, it felt rather empty.
Her gaze kept returning to the man who sat down the other end of the banquet table, talking to his people in the soft Arabic she’d started to love hearing. They were laughing at something he’d said and he smiled, a warm, charismatic presence that the whole table seemed to respond to.
A lump rose in her throat, a strange longing she didn’t understand curling tightly in her chest. She looked away, unable to bear the sight of him all of a sudden.MoreLess
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