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over her head, he heard the sound of car doors slamming and his name being called. Breaking the kiss, he stepped back as Kim lost her balance and collapsed back onto the bench behind her. Staring up at him in surprise, it took her a moment before she heard the voices calling Karim’s name.
    Within moments, Amare and the driver walked through the door, both looking relieved to see him. Turning his head, Amare was surprised to see Kim with his brother and she appeared to be upset.
    “What is going on?” he asked them looking from one to the other.
    Shrugging his shoulders, “No doubt you saw my car?” Karim asked. At Amare’s nod, he continued. “I was driving Miss Atkins to the orphanage when the flat occurred. It looked as though a storm was coming, so we took shelter.”
    Turning his head, Amare waited for Kim to confirm the story as she nodded her head in response. Smiling, he turned back to his brother, “Is that all that was going on?”
    “What do you mean?” Karim asked.
    “Well, the storm never came, so I’m wondering what you might have been doing not to realise that,” he said with a grin on his face.
    “Nothing. At. All.” Karim replied as Kim looked away. She didn’t want to be involved in this conversation because they were very much doing something and she was disappointed that it had been interrupted.

Chapter Nine
    It had been a week since the incident at the storm shelter and Kim sat on her bed stuffing her face with a sandwich that she had made for herself. Since they returned to the house, Karim had gone out of his way to avoid her and she couldn’t stop thinking about him.
    She wanted to kick herself. He was Amare’s older brother. Nothing good could come from having feelings for him. She was not even certain if she had any feelings for him. Yes, she found him very attractive and when he kissed her, he had set her insides on fire in a way that no other man had ever done so, but it may well have been the heat of the moment.
    Clearly, from the way he spoke to his brother, he didn’t feel the same way and deep down, Kim knew that was for the best, but it didn’t stop her from thinking about him. If he truly didn’t feel anything, then why did he kiss her in the first place?
    While she knew that she wasn’t the most experienced person out there, she knew the sounds of pleasure when she heard it and he was certainly making them. If Amare hadn’t arrived when he did, how far would he have taken it, she wondered.
    She replayed in her head the warnings both Amare and Taleb gave her about Karim’s avoidance of all things associated with relationships and love. While she knew that there had to be a reason for it, the brothers were convinced that it was simply part of who he was.
    Suddenly Kim’s Skype rang. She looked at her laptop screen to see who was calling and saw the profile picture of her best friend, Claire, pop up. Friends since they were children, the women Skyped almost every day since Kim came to Saudi Arabia to teach
    “Claire!” Kim cried out as she answered the call.
    “Kim!” Claire shouted back as they both laughed.
    “It feels as if I haven’t spoken to you in ages.”
    “It does feel like that doesn’t it?”
    “Yeah.” Kim pouted before she stuffed the last of the sandwich in her mouth.
    “I have some news!” Claire said with a big smile on her face. It was obvious that she was excited about something. Kim immediately leaned into her webcam.
    “What is it?” she asked.
    “I got accepted into Harvard Law School’s library!” she shouted, waving a letter around. Kim jerked up and screamed.
    “Oh, my God!”
    “I know.”
    Both Kim and Claire screamed and laughed. They both knew how much Claire had wanted to work there and she was so proud of her best friend. She knew how hard she worked; she truly deserved to work at one of the top universities in the world. With her chestnut brown hair, heart-shaped face and piercing brown eyes, Claire was another example