I’m quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.

Gunfire cracked around them.
“Just warning shots,” he yelled.
“How do you know?”
“We’re not dead.

The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl-rimmed brown eyes lit with a challenge.

“I am the one you know as Hamid Nabil Hassan. The most wanted man in the world.

The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl-rimmed brown eyes lit with a challenge. “I am the one you know as Hamid Nabil Hassan. The most wanted man in the world.

It was too late for the truth – and too soon.

Look.” He stepped closer, his voice lowered to a gruff murmur, and lifted her chin with his finger, forcing her to meet his gaze – which just made her want to stretch up and kiss him.