He knew, too, what his response would be.
He’d pull her into his arms, whisper what she could do to please him, and that look of indignation would be replaced by one of hot desire.
She’d rise on her toes and bring her mouth to his and he would ease her down on his bed, undress her, bare her to his mouth, his hands …
Dammit!
He was hard as a rock.
An intelligent man didn’t mix business with pleasure, and this was strictly business.
Yes, she was attractive.
All right.
She was beautiful.
And she surely would know how to pleasure a man.
That was a given.
For one thing, Rami had never been interested in innocence. And then a man had only to see her in that costume to know that, whatever her work might be, she was a sexual sophisticate.
Still, when you came down to it, she was just a woman. Not that he held women in low esteem or anything, but she wasn’t special—not to a man who’d always had his pick of them.
His mother’s genes, his father’s royal lineage, his own success … Add all that together and he’d always had his share of desirable lovers.
More than his share, to be brutally honest.
Then why all this schoolboy nonsense?
Karim frowned.
Because he’d been living like a monk, that was why. He’d been so busy cleaning up after Rami instead of living his own life that he had not been with a woman in weeks.
Well, he’d remedy that soon enough.
Karim glanced at his watch.
They’d be in New York in a couple of hours. His driver would meet them at the airport. It would be early evening by the time they reached his penthouse; he’d given orders to ready one of the guest suites for the woman and the child.
A hot shower. A night’s sleep. Then, in the morning, a meeting with his attorney, a stop at the lab his doctor had recommended, a bit of serious negotiating with the woman, and custody would be his.
With any luck at all, this would be settled in a couple of days, after which he’d take out his BlackBerry, choose a name and number, and put an end to these weeks of celibacy.
Talk about tying up loose ends, Karim thought with a tight smile.
That would surely do it.