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college roommate at Tennessee State, meant when she’d tried explaining to her the complexities of sexual chemistry and physical attraction. At the time she hadn’t had a clue because she hadn’t yet met a man like Jamal Yasir.
    Standing, she stretched. Today she planned to explore the area surrounding the cabin. Then later she intended to get more sleep. For the past three weeks she had studied all hours of the day and night preparing for final exams and had not gotten sufficient rest.
    Now that she could, she would take advantage of the opportunity to relax. Besides, the less she was around Jamal, the better.
     
    Jamal kept walking. He had passed the lake a mile back but intended to walk off as much sexual frustration as he could. The anger he’d felt with Delaney’s comment about the people in his country not being happy had dissolved. Now he was dealing with the power of lust.
    He stopped walking and studied the land surrounding the cabin. From where he stood the view was spectacular. This was the first time since coming to the cabin that he had actually taken the time to walk around and appreciate it.
    He remembered the first time Philip had mentioned the cabin in the Carolinas, and how the view of the mountains had been totally breathtaking. Now he saw just what his friend had meant.
    His mind then went back to Delaney, and he wondered if she had seen the view from this spot and if she would find it as breathtaking as he did. He doubted she had seen anything, since she rarely left the confines of her bedroom for long periods of time.
    Jamal leaned against a tree when he heard his cell phone ring. He unsnapped it from the waist of his jeans and held it to his ear. “Yes, Asalum, what is it?”
    “I’m just checking, Your Highness, to make sure all is well and that you don’t need anything.”
    He shook his head. “I’m fine, but I have received an unexpected visitor.”
    “Who?”
    He knew that Asalum was immediately on alert. In addition to serving as his personal secretary, Asalum had been his bodyguard from the time Jamal had been a child to the time he had officially reached manhood at eighteen.
    He told him about Delaney’s arrival. “If the woman is being a nuisance, Your Highness, perhaps I can persuade her to leave.”
    Jamal sighed. “That won’t be necessary, Asalum. All she does most of the time is sleep, anyway.”
    There was a pause. Then a question. “Is she pregnant?”
    Jamal arched a brow. “Why would you think she is pregnant?”
    “Most women have a tendency to sleep a lot when they are pregnant.”
    Jamal nodded. If anyone knew the behavior of a pregnant woman it would be Asalum. Rebakkah, Asalum’s wife, had borne him twelve children. “No, I don’t think she’s pregnant. She claims she’s just tired.”
    Asalum snorted. “And what has she been doing to be so tired?”
    “Studying for finals. She recently completed a medical degree at the university.”
    “Is that all? She must be a weak woman if studying can make her tired to the point of exhaustion.”
    For some reason Jamal felt the need to defend Delaney.“She is not a weak woman. If anything she’s too strong. Especially in her opinions.”
    “She sounds like a true Western woman, Your Highness.”
    Jamal rubbed his hand across his face. “She is. In every sense of the words. And, Asalum, she is also very beautiful.”
    For the longest moment Asalum didn’t say anything, then he said quietly, “Beware of temptation, my prince.”
    Jamal thought about all that he had been experiencing since Delaney had arrived. Even now his body throbbed for relief. “Your warning comes too late. It has gone past temptation,” Jamal said flatly.
    “And what is it now?”
    “Obsession.”

Chapter 3
    A fter being at the cabin a full week, Delaney finally completed the task of unpacking and put away the last of her things. With arms folded across her chest she walked over to the window and looked out. Her bedroom had a beautiful