The Sheikh Who Blackmailed Her. Susan Mallery

because it was the human way not to appreciate what you had until it was being taken from you.

      Hakim stopped laughing and stared. ‘Will whatever alien that has taken over your body let me speak to my brother, Rafiq?’

      ‘Do not be foolish,’ Rafiq snapped, his brows knitting into an irritated frown.

      ‘You know what you’re talking like?’ Hakim fixed his brother with a narrowed, speculative stare. ‘You’re talking like a man who’s fallen in love. Have you ever been in love, Rafiq?’

      ‘Not as often as you, little brother.’

      ‘Clever,’ Hakim admired. ‘But you didn’t answer the question.’

      ‘And I am not going to.’