He was flying in to Hawaii to meet her. He already had three nights reserved downtown in a hotel right on Waikiki and he was renting a car. That’s w...hy her husband dropped her off her at the airport. Cassie got to the gate before the main body of greeters so she was able to stand closest to the door he would come through. She put her bag on the window ledge beside her and dug out the two leis she’d brought for him. The first was the traditional kind – gardenias and carnations, purple for a. ”“Sounds like you’d be my secretary. This is the guy who’s too macho to have me pay the rent?”“It would be one more household task. We share those. It is one which, quite frankly, you don’t perform very well.”“Now I know you’re channeling my father. ‘Vi, the purpose of balancing a checkbook is to ensure that you don’t write a check on funds not in your account. You can’t be sure if you balance it a month late with made-up figures.’ Go figure! Bob, the slob, never bounced a check in his life, as. It had been completely replaced by a whole other set of emotions. Now all he could think was how she had manipulated him on that day. How she had humiliated him in front of those two girls. Especially Shelly! And what made things worse (So much worse.) was realizing he had actually let her to him. How could he had been so stupid! He thought for the hundredth time. For these last two days that thought was all he could think about. It was one thing for Emily to humiliate me with just her in the. “If you catch his eye properly today he may offer to take you into his harem as a wife,” said Sharifa, “Do you fancy being married to an Emir?”“Me?” asked Nicola, startled.“Either of you,” replied Sharifa, privately amused at the consternation on the faces of the two women.Just then the door opened. When the Emir entered Nicola and Gwenllian realised that no ceremony was required, since Sharifa did not throw herself to the floor in obeisance.“What have we here?” he asked, “A delegation?”“We.