Mine Before Memory by Ayesha Saddiqa
"High-Tension"
The Watcher and the Lake
Emaan thought she had finally bought her freedom.
Leaving behind the suffocating expectations of her high-society life in Karachi, she escapes to the icy, silent beauty of Lucerne, Switzerland. Here, she is a ghost. Here, she belongs to no one. Or so she thinks.
From the frost-slick deck of a private yacht, Zayyan Al-Raheem watches her. He doesn’t want her money, and he doesn’t want her heart. He wants the one thing Emaan isn't ready to give: absolute surrender.
Zayyan is a man of precision and lethal patience. He sets a single, terrifying rule: He will not touch her until she asks. As the Swiss winter closes in, the line between rescue and ruin begins to blur. Every gift is a tether, every look is a brand, and every "no" is becoming a "please." Emaan came to Switzerland to find herself, but in the shadow of a predator who knows her better than she knows herself, she might just find that she’d rather be his.
"I told you I wouldn't touch you... I didn't say I'd stop watching."