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Chapter 49

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Chapter Forty Nine

Elena’s POV

The man in white laughed a low, rich sound that sliced through her fear like a whip.

It wasn’t kind laughter. It was the kind that said I own the air you breathe.

Elena flinched as his hand waved lazily in the air, and one of his men tall, silent, eyes hidden behind sunglasses stepped closer. The scent of the desert mixed with the faint musk of animals around them.

“Investigate her,” the man ordered in Arabic-accented English. His tone was unhurried, but final. “Where she came from, who sent her, why she trembles like a liar.”

“Yes, Sheikh,” the man replied, bowing slightly.

Elena’s eyes widened. Sheikh. So that’s who he was a prince, a ruler, a man used to power and fear following him like shadow.

“No!” she screamed, panic tearing her throat raw. “Over my dead body! You can’t lock me up …”

The Sheikh turned to her, his expression almost amused. “Women do have a lot of audacity,” he said softly, his dark eyes glinting beneath the lowering sun. “Espec
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