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

I pouted my lips and placed my hands stubbornly on my hips. Not all Arabic men wore dresses. I had never seen Benjamin in one. "The Sultan does not wear a white dress!" I said confidently.

The guy slightly shook his head and then looked at me. "The new sultan," he began to say and looked me straight in the eyes. "Is not a real Arabic man," he said in the same confidant tone.

"That is really ridiculous." I shrugged. He tilted his head to the side, still looking at me. "No it is not and I guess that you know that I am right," he said meaningfully. "You are one of his friends from America right?" he stated more than he asked.

I pointed out my chin. "Then what does it take to be a real Saudi man?" I said incredulous. "Arabic norms, values… it is a way of thinking… a way of living so you will," he offered using a lot of hand gestures.

Not a real Arabian Sultan