Deborah_Pruijmboom

I was roaming the palace halls, pretending to be a servant. My heart drummed when I first saw her. Jasmine’s cat-like green eyes haunted me from the moment that I had met her. The new maid in our Saudi palace was everything I had ever dreamed of; a body that made every man kneel, her intelligence was beyond imagination and her passion set my whole world on fire.

Although I knew she truly loved me, her love for me was more like a game of push and pull. She did not wish to marry anyone, and certainly not me. 

Meeting Saphira back home in Malibu USA, had seemed like a welcome distraction. And although I resisted, we had deeply fallen. It was not something I could easily take back... Saphira was not everything that I had once dreamed of, and I certainly did not plan to love her. But I did regardless, irrevocably so. 

My name is Benjamin El-Raji Saud, Prince of Saudi Arabia.  
They say love wasn’t supposed to be easy, I know that now. 
The story of how our love became untangled, was messy and twisted and full of heart ache and betrayal.
I truly did not know how our story would end, but is was ours. 
 
Which ship are you rooting for?
#Shaphmin
#Jazzmin
#Shaphary
#Benierra?
#Saphlik?

Love Untangled

It was quiet on the other side of the line.

"Hey," I said breaking the silence. "Jasmine?!" Benjamin said my name as if it was a question. "Yes," I said a little awkwardly.

"Oh… Hey…" he said repeating me. He did not speak for a while and I walked to the glass wall, which gave a panorama view over Boston. The sight was absolutely beautiful.

"What can I do for you?" Benjamin asked in a tight voice. "It has been weeks, like six now, right?" I questioned. "Six and a half," he corrected me. "Right," I said.

"So tell me…" Benjamin prompted. "Tell you what?" I asked a little dazed. "What can I do for you?" He gulped.

"It's about university…" I started to say. "I have heard you are every lecturer's darling," he mused. "Ah… you have spied on me," I teasingly accused him. "Of course I have," he said and I heard a smile coloring his tone.

"I did not expect anything less," I said and we both chuckled.

Washington DC