{"id":2508,"date":"2017-08-21T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2508"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:46:01","slug":"diamond-sheikhs-mistress","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/diamond-sheikhs-mistress\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diamond For The Sheikh&#8217;s Mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-10swdu4-9e8336a5c47c480d001c6822239f666a main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-2508'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-zqgn0s-0a4661a93f131ae64b698f8464cadb75\">\n.flex_column.av-zqgn0s-0a4661a93f131ae64b698f8464cadb75{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-zqgn0s-0a4661a93f131ae64b698f8464cadb75 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-8826f8f8a388741e213593b600bf4010\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-8826f8f8a388741e213593b600bf4010{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-8826f8f8a388741e213593b600bf4010 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-8826f8f8a388741e213593b600bf4010 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-8826f8f8a388741e213593b600bf4010 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Scandalous mistress&#8230;or desert Queen?<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-399syk-9ff5c2e4b251dce9e189f06cd23a564d'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Sheikh Zafir Al-Noury cannot forgive model Kat Winters for breaking off their engagement, but he cannot forget their burning-hot nights together. Hiring her to promote his kingdom&#8217;s most famous jewel creates an opportunity for renewed seduction\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Walking away from Zafir devastated Kat. The pain has made her strong, but the fire he ignites is stronger yet\u2014Zafir tempts her to complete sensual surrender! 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He couldn\u2019t quite believe his eyes\u2014that Kat Winters was working in a busy mid-range restaurant in Queens. But, yes\u2026one of the world\u2019s arguably most beautiful women was currently wearing skinny jeans and a white T-shirt with a black apron around her small waist. Her hair was piled up in a messy knot on her head and there was a pencil stuck through it, which she was now fumbling for as she took an order.<\/p>\n<p>Everything in Zafir recoiled from this very banal scenario\u2014except it wasn\u2019t disgust he was feeling, seeing her again. It was something much hotter and more urgent. Even dressed like this and without a scrap of make-up she was exquisite. A jewel such as she could not be hidden in a place like this. What the hell was she doing here? And what the hell was she doing going under another name\u2014Kaycee Smith? And how dared she refuse to even consider the offer he\u2019d sent to her via her agent?<\/p>\n<p>Her agent had sent back a terse response:<\/p>\n<p>Kat<em> Winters is no longer available for modelling assignments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please do not pursue this request.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No one refused Zafir. Or warned him off. Least of all an ex-lover.<\/p>\n<p>He issued a curt instruction to his driver now, and his window rolled up silently as he got out of the car and stretched to his full height of six foot four. He recalled Kat in vertiginous heels, the way it had put her mouth well within kissing distance. The way her added height had aligned their bodies so perfectly. He watched her walk away from the table and grimaced when he saw she was wearing sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Not for long, he vowed as he moved forward to the door of the restaurant. Soon she would be in heels again, and soon that lush mouth would be his again. All of her would be his again.<\/p>\n<p>He had no idea what she was playing at, with this meek little game of being a waitress, but he was certain that once she heard what he had to say she\u2019d be demonstrating her gratitude that he was prepared to give her another chance to be in his life and in his bed again, even just for a few brief weeks, in the most satisfactory way.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It took a second for the significance of that word to sink in. No one here called her Kat. They called her Kaycee. And then there was the voice. Impossibly deep. And the way Kat had been pronounced, with the flat inflection that had always made it sound exotic. And authoritative\u2014as if her name was a command to look at him, give him her attention.<\/p>\n<p>It took another second for the realisation to hit her that there was only one person who could have spoken.<\/p>\n<p>With the utmost reluctance, vying with disbelief, she looked up from the counter-top.<\/p>\n<p>Zafir.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment she simply didn\u2019t believe it. He couldn\u2019t be here. Not against this very dull backdrop of a restaurant in Queens. He inhabited five-star zones. He breathed rarefied air. He moved in circles far removed from this place. This man was royalty.<\/p>\n<p>He was a King now.<\/p>\n<p>And yet her agent had told her only a couple of days ago that he\u2019d asked for her, so she should have been prepared. But she\u2019d blocked out any possibility of this happening. And now she was sorry, because she wasn\u2019t remotely prepared to see the man she\u2019d loved with such intensity that it had sometimes scared her.<\/p>\n<p>She blinked, but he didn\u2019t disappear. He seemed to grow in stature. Had he always been so tall? So broad? But she knew he had. He was imprinted on her brain and her memory like a brand. The hard-boned aristocratic features. The deep-set dark grey eyes that stood out against his dark olive skin. The thick dark hair swept back off his high forehead. That perfect hard-muscled body without an ounce of excess fat, its power evident even under a suit and overcoat.<\/p>\n<p>He was clean-shaven now, instead of with the short beard he\u2019d worn when she\u2019d known him, and it should have made him look somehow less. But it didn\u2019t. It seemed to enhance his virility in a way that was almost overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>She hadn\u2019t even realised she\u2019d spoken his name out loud until the sensual curve of those beautifully sculpted lips curved up slightly on one side and he said, \u2018You remember my name, then?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The mocking tone which implied that it was laughable she could have possibly forgotten finally broke Kat out of her dangerous reverie and shock. He <em>was<\/em> here. In her space. The man she\u2019d had dreams and nightmares about meeting again now that her life had changed beyond all recognition.<\/p>\n<p>In her nightmares he looked at her with disgust and horror, and to her mortification she woke up crying more often than not. Her dreams were no less humiliating\u2014they were X-rated, and she\u2019d wake up sweating, believing for a second that she was still whole\u2026still his.<\/p>\n<p>But she was neither of those things. Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>Her pulse quickened treacherously, even though his presence heralded an emotional pain she\u2019d hoped had been relegated to the past but which she was now discovering not to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke sharply. \u2018What are you doing here, Zafir? Didn\u2019t you get my agent\u2019s message?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He arched a brow and Kat flushed, suddenly aware of how she\u2019d just addressed a man before whom most people would be genuflecting. A man who had two conspicuous bodyguards dressed in black just outside the main door.<\/p>\n<p>She refused to be intimidated. It was almost too much to take in, thinking of the last time she\u2019d seen him and how upset she\u2019d been, and then what had happened\u2026the most catastrophic event of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I got her message and chose to ignore it,\u2019 Zafir said easily, his tone belying the curious punch to his gut when he registered Kat\u2019s obvious reluctance to see him again.<\/p>\n<p>Kat folded her arms, as if that could protect her from his all too devastating charisma. Typical arrogant Zafir. He hadn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p>Tersely she said, \u2018I\u2019m working, so unless you\u2019ve come here to eat this isn\u2019t appropriate.\u2019 It\u2019ll never be appropriate. But she stopped herself from saying that with some desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Zafir\u2019s smile faded and those unusual dark grey eyes flashed. \u2018You refused to engage with my offer, which I do not accept.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No,\u2019 Kat said feeling the bitterness that was a residue from their last tumultuous meeting, when she\u2019d left him. \u2018I can well imagine that you don\u2019t accept it, Zafir, because you\u2019re used to everyone falling over themselves to please you. But I\u2019m afraid I feel no such compulsion.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His eyes narrowed on her and she immediately felt threatened. She\u2019d always felt as if he could see right through her\u2014through the desperate fa\u00e7ade she\u2019d put up to try and convince people she wasn\u2019t a girl who had grown up in a trailer with a drug-addicted, mentally unstable mother. A girl who hadn\u2019t even graduated from high school.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Zafir hadn\u2019t\u2014for all that she\u2019d thought he might. Until he\u2019d had the evidence shoved under his nose and he\u2019d looked at her with cold, unforgiving eyes and had judged and condemned her out of his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You\u2019ve changed.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His words slammed into her like a physical blow. He was right. She had changed. Utterly. And this was her worst nightmare coming to life. Meeting Zafir again. And him finding out\u2014<\/p>\n<p>He wouldn\u2019t, she assured herself now, feeling panicky. He couldn\u2019t<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Is this gentleman looking for a table for one, Kaycee?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kat looked blankly at her boss for a second, but she didn\u2019t mistake the gleam of very feminine appreciation in the older woman\u2019s eyes as she ogled Zafir unashamedly.<\/p>\n<p>Galvanised into action, she took the menu out of her boss\u2019s hands and said firmly, \u2018No, he\u2019s not. He was just looking for directions and now he knows where to go.\u2019 She looked at Zafir, and if she could have vaporised him on the spot she would have. \u2018Don\u2019t you, sir?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Her boss was pulled aside at that moment by another member of staff, and Zafir just looked at Kat for a long moment, before saying silkily, \u2018I\u2019ll be waiting for you, Kat. 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