Free Forever Betrayed: Forever Bluegrass #3 by Kathleen Brooks Page A

join a partnership with the new Rahmi International Nanotechnology Laboratories,” Zain told her before leaning forward and opening a door. “This is one of the smaller meeting rooms I have reserved for Rahmi. It’s where I will be doing one-on-one meetings. Each country will have its own sitting room that is attached to the bedchambers for their leader. Let me show you where they all are.”
     
    Twenty minutes later, Mila had pages full of the house layout and everywhere the German chancellor would need to go. Zain had tons of work to get back to but found himself lingering. As they walked, they talked about the summit and Keeneston. She nearly had him in tears of laughter as she told him of her car trip with Anton.
    “So, want to show me the secret rooms?” Mila asked with a shy smile.
    Zain almost pumped his fist in the air. She was lingering, too. “Sure, but first I have to swear you to secrecy.” Zain held out his hand as if to shake hers. Mila reached out and placed her hand in his. Warmth raced up his arm as he showed her the secret handshake he, Gabe, and Abby had made up when they were children.
    Mila laughed as the warmth flooded Zain’s heart. She was his. He knew it the second she looked at him with laughter on her lips and interest in her eyes. “The best place to enter is from the library. That’s the one we used all the time. That’s where we will have one of the refreshment areas set up for the dignitaries,” Zain told her as they made their way to the library. “I’ll have a station set up for the interpreters in the small sitting room on the second floor. There will be a place set up in the formal sitting room and the smaller day room along with the library,” Zain explained as he held open the library door.
    “Can you find it?” Zain asked her. Mila stepped away from him and started walking around the room.
    “The fireplace?” Mila asked as she looked it over.
    Zain shook his head.
    Mila slowly walked the room. “I have no idea,” she muttered as she tried pulling random books out of the bookcase.
    “It’s over there in the nook.” Zain led her over to the small U-shaped nook and pulled aside the window curtain. “It’s right here beside the window. There is a tiny button in that light fixture, can you see it?”
    Mila leaned closer and ran her hand over the fixture. “There it is! You can hardly see it. May I press it?”
    “Go ahead,” Zain said as he watched her vibrate with excitement. She pressed the button and the wall silently slid open about two feet. Mila turned and disappeared into the room.
    Zain followed quickly behind her and bumped into her back. He wanted to groan as her ass brushed against him. “Sorry, let me get the light. It’s right here,” he said as he guided her hand to the switch. A soft yellow light filled the little room. In it were a small sofa, a desk, and a chair. On the desk sat a laptop and a landline phone.
    “What is this place?” Mila asked as she started to walk around the space that was no more than ten feet in length and six feet deep.
    “A safe room. You can bolt the door to the library here in case you’re in danger. Or in my case, if you want to escape your siblings.” Zain decided now was the time to make his move. Mila was standing close to him and all he could think about was having her in his arms in a place he wouldn’t be disturbed. His mother would never know. Neither Veronica nor Abby would be walking in on them. Mila would be his and his alone, at least for a short while.
    Zain stepped toward her back as she looked at the mechanism to open the door to the library from the inside. He took a breath. He was a prince. He had this. Zain stepped closer and felt Mila suck in a breath when she realized he was so close behind her. Without saying a word, he ran one hand gently down her arm to rest on her waist. His other hand reached out for her thigh and ran it upward along the curve of her hip. His fingers flexed against the