The Harem Bride
Blair Bancroft

Excerpt

FORBIDDEN PLEASURES

“They are watching,” he whispered, “I am certain of it.”

Gulbeyaz, the well-trained odalisque, merely nodded, her eyes properly lowered to her lap.

“Do you understand? We will have to pretend.”

“There is no need to pretend,” she told him grandly, if still very softly. “I have been well trained. I am ready to do what is expected of me.”

Gulbeyaz removed her jeweled kalpock and long trailing veil, tossing them aside. She ran her hands through her long silver blond hair, which shimmered like a waterfall in the torchlight. Jason drew in his breath, even as his arousal, already quickened, strengthened very much against his will.

Then she lifted the duvet and climbed into the bed.

“Penelope…Penny!” Jason choked. “What do you think you’re doing?”

“Only what I have been taught, my lord,” came the muffled reply. “Only what I have been taught.”