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ma’am,” he said with grave formality and moved towards the door from which they’d come only minutes before. 
    Nazar was still standing there, his tall, muscular body looking awesome with the autumn sunshine streaming through the windows.  “I can’t say that’s much better,” he said as he approached.  “You should be draped in silks and satins,” he told her, his eyes showing that he mentally had already dressed her in other clothes.  “I’ll take you to Paris and make that happen.”
    Nikki’s mouth fell open.  “Paris?”
    He nodded his head as he held her hand again.  “Would you prefer Milan?” he suggested. 
    She quickly shook her head.  “I would prefer neither!”  She jerked her hand out of his.  “Look, I’m truly sorry for invading your privacy.  Since we’ll be seeing each other tomorrow night, I need to head home.  I have lesson plans to work through and a million papers to grade.”
    His eyes widened.  “You’re a teacher?” he asked.
    She crossed her arms over her chest, irritated the he looked so astonished.  “Yes.  High school English.  And my students just turned in their essays on Byron’s poetry and I need to review them all tonight so the students will have their grades by tomorrow.”
    “Why such a rush?”
    She took a deep breath, grateful for the safe subject.  “Poetry is difficult to understand and even more difficult to appreciate.  So getting the kids feedback on their perception of the poems is important.”  She wasn’t lying now.  She worked hard to get the papers graded as quickly as possible and encourage any of her students who had grasped the concepts behind any poetry assignment as well as help the students who didn’t absorb as much from the sometimes difficult wording.  “Poetry is important in our society,” she enthused.  “It helps a person view the world from a different perspective, but even more importantly, it can show a person that others are going through the same issues they might be currently experiencing.”
    Nazar agreed with her.  “And Byron might be portraying their romantic angst, showing them that the same issues were being faced two hundred years ago.”
    She smiled, the first time all weekend, thrilled that he really understood!  “Exactly!”
    “She walks in beauty like the night/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies/ And all that’s best of dark and bright/ Meet in her aspect and her eyes/ Thus mellowed to that tender light/ Which heaven to gaudy day denies.” 
    Nikki barely breathed, her mind so suffused with awe at this man, this tall, arrogant, obnoxious and terrifying man, quoting “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron.  “Oh my,” she whispered, not wanting to break the silence after his quote.
    “Dinner tomorrow.  Come here at seven.”  With that, he bent low and gently kissed her lips. 
    Nikki walked towards the doorway, but she wasn’t sure if her feet were actually touching the floor.  And it stayed like that throughout the rest of the day and into the night, a silly grin on her face as she remembered Nazar quoting poetry for her. 
     

Chapter 4
     
    Nikki couldn’t believe she was actually in Yafar.  What was she doing here?  One moment, she was pacing the confines of her tiny house, the next she was calling her boss and asking for some time off.  In the middle of the semester, no less!  Teachers, or at least the good ones, simply didn’t abandon their classrooms and go off chasing down tentative leads that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. 
    Except Nikki just knew that this man had information about Brianna’s disappearance.  He was either involved or he knew someone who was involved.  She had no evidence to bring to any official authority, nor did she know who she would even bring that evidence to even if she had it.  The State Department?  Not that she had anything against that organization but she seriously doubted that they would take any action that would