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her eyes, a tentative smile forming on her full lips. “Really?”
    He nodded once. “Yes. And that is why I will send you home. Our guards will ensure you are well protected, of course, and once I have finished my business here, I shall return to Qatar after you.”
    For a moment, they just stared at each other. Slowly, Djamila’s excitement grew until he could see it all but bursting forth from her. It was maybe more than it shoulder be after he had added that she would be returning alone—was that a normal wish for a new bride, he wondered?—but he cared little of it, because after one more moment, she smiled and threw herself at him. Wrapping her arms around his neck in an uncharacteristic show of excitement and affection, she kissed his cheeks and thanked him.
    “Oh, thank you, husband! Thank you!”
    He didn’t ask why she was so eager to return home and she didn’t ask why he was so eager to stay. It was the type of arrangement that worked out so perfectly it was almost as though fate were intervening on their behalf.
    Djamila quickly returned to packing, her movements light and bouncing with excitement.
    Farhid didn’t care why she was so excited; he simply couldn’t be bothered with his wife, his father’s plans be damned. Instead, his mind was focused solely on the new opportunities afforded to him in the wake of her absence.
    Do you know that I’m coming for you, my beautiful Clarice?

Chapter Five
    It had become Clarice’s practice to go to the charity committee on Saturday midmornings—brunches as they usually ended up being—with the intention of taking her mind off of how horribly wrong her marriage was becoming. This Saturday was no different than any of the others in that respect, but there was something different about it. It had to do with the call that woke her that morning.
    Her phone began ringing on her bedside table. It was early, she knew that much at least, and the buzzing of her phone was an irritation that grated on her nerves. Who was calling her this early she thought?
    Blearily she opened her eyes and spotted her bedside clock: four fifteen in the morning. Her irritation grew and she thought that the only reason she was going to answer that phone was to yell at whoever was on the other side and then promptly hang up on them so that she could toss the offending thing across the room, shattering it into a thousand pieces.
    That was her plan, anyway, until she actually answered it. “Hello?”
    “Clarice? Darling, did I wake you?” It was Donald on the other end.
    Immediately, she woke the rest of the way up. Sitting up straight in her bed, phone held tightly to her ear, she blinked away the sleep as a million scenarios of what was wrong, how he was hurt, how he was stranded, went through her mind. “Donald? Are you alright? What happened?”
    “I’m in California,” he informed her, ignoring her panicked tone and her urgent questions as though both of these things were unimportant and irrelevant. Maybe to him they were. “I just landed about an hour ago.”
    Frowning as she already felt the disappointment and anger start to filter into her system, Clarice asked her husband, “Why are you in California?”
    “Can’t get into details right now,” Donald answered smoothly, making Clarice think that something else was going on other than the usual lack of consideration that was her husband. “Just know that I have a business meeting and I’ll be back in two weeks.”
    “Two weeks?!”
    “Love you, darling,” Donald said ignoring the sting of her voice.
    The line went dead and that was that. There was no more to be said. Clarice’s shoulders slumped heavily and she stared incredulously at the phone in her hand. Had her husband seriously just left without warning, without a care, without even a thought of her? She glanced back at his empty side of the bed looking just as neat as it had the night before when she’d crawled in.
    Of course he had done that, she realized