Having dozed off in the middle of a particularly torrid passage, Catherine was shocked by the sudden descent of a heavy, silk blindfold around her eye.... She barely had time to struggle before her mysterious assailant had bound her with rope so thightly that her elbows actually touched behind her. When the blindfold cam off, she saw the dark, powerful, black-clad stranger grinning wickedly down at her. Blushing with shame at her own excitement, she could imagine how her bound posture must thrust. In theory.Of course, I hadn’t known my jailer was Qoura before fleeing my prison. If there was one person in Karanas stronger than its ruler, it was Qoura. The Sorceress of Water, the North Star, the First Guardian of Karanas, she who had sunk the Ask Imperial Fleet and broken the Ashkan emperor’s hold over the high seas five centuries ago. The only reason the woman didn’t rule Karanas outright were the other two Guardians, whose services were as necessary as hers and who wouldn’t stand for her. He was not angry; he was not resentful that she had cornered him. He seemed unconcerned, distant."I heard your fiancée in the background," she said, looking him in the eye."Fiancée?" he seemed perplexed. "I'm not engaged." The party on Friday; not an engagement party? Cassie thought it was."Realisation dawned on his face. "It was a house-warming party. You're thinking of Karin. She furnished the house for me, and wonderfully too. The party was as much a thank you to her as a housewarming." Then. Mein bed pe leti hui thi aur pallu sarak chuka tha,maatha halka bhari ho gaya tha isliye aankhon pe pallu daal ke nind ka sa bahana karke leti thi aur raju ke laptop aur mobile se data transfer etc chal raha tha, raju ke mobile mein password tha isliye video file nahi khuli aur wo dena bhi nahi chah raha tha aur mobile hang hua tha toh mere pass hi baith ke mobile khola, mein uske mobile ka memory card chupke se lena bhi chahti thi. Raju ne mobile ka cover, battery aur sim card mere pet pe hi.