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Now.”
    Gray’s date stepped forward. “She’s not to blame, sir. My fiancé is, I think, having a bad day.”
    “Fiancé?” Sofia spun back around at the word. She looked up at Gray. “You’re engaged?”
    He didn't answer, but the rigid expression on his face was enough of a reply.
    Okay, now it was time for the heartbreak.
    Sofia cheeks blazed. How could she have gotten it so wrong this time? The man she was in love with wasn’t a jerk…and he certainly wasn’t engaged to a beautiful woman.
    “Of course not,” she whispered, feeling defeated. “Only in my dreams.”
    “Your what?” He grabbed her forearm.
    An extraordinary surge of heat rose through her body, and Sofia wondered if he’d felt it too. He closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them halfway, staring at her with a strange intensity.
    “Grayson,” his fiancée said, “what is wrong with you? Let her go.”
    Sofia wasn’t afraid of him. She met his stare with an angry one of her own…which melted quickly when he leaned in and brushed his lips against her ear.
    Her skin prickled at the mere touch, how his breath warmed her ear. Maybe he realized what a jerk he’d been and was going to apologize. She breathed in his familiar scent and reached her hand up to caress his cheek. Welcome him home.
    He grasped tighter to her arm, pulling her hand back down to her side. “Get out of my head,” he said in a low growl, and released her.
    Before she could gather her wits and her pride to respond, he threw a bill on the table and guided his fiancée out of the restaurant.
    ~ * ~
    Rachel stared out the window, apparently giving Gray the silent treatment for behaving so poorly. He’d been an asshole, he knew, but how else was he supposed to react when the woman from his dreams showed up as their server? When she stared at him with those striking blue eyes that dug into his very soul? When she dared him to kiss that silly, lovesick expression off her face?
    She wasn’t supposed to be real. She was a dream, and dreams couldn’t threaten your future. They couldn’t materialize in front of you and your fiancée and make you second-guess every decision you’d ever made.
    But that was exactly what she’d done in a matter of seconds.
    He gritted his teeth and clenched tight to the steering wheel. Shit. The mirage, the hallucination…the whatever you wanted to call her, named Sofia was not a part of his plan. No, not a woman who haunted him, stalking his dreams and making him want her more than he’d wanted any other woman.
    To know she existed blew his mind. How could it be possible?
    “I’m sorry,” he said, trying to sound like he meant it. He reached for Rachel’s limp hand and gripped her palm.
    Sure, he was sorry for causing a scene, and even more regretful for being the reason Sofia lost her job. Not for a second did he like knowing he’d hurt her in any way, but he hoped it had worked. He hoped the woman hated him enough to make her stop torturing his mind. How she did it, he didn’t know, but maybe now the dreams would end.
    “Do you know her?” Rachel asked.
    The question surprised Gray. Had he been that obvious? “I’ve never met her before,” he said.
    Even though he’d made love to the woman every night for the past month, kissed every inch of her sweet skin, he’d never actually met her in real life.
    “Why do you ask?”
    “The way she looked at you. It was odd. I see women staring at you all the time when we’re walking down the street or eating out, but never like that.”
    “She was definitely a whack job.” Gray cringed at his own words. When had he become such an ass?
    “You looked at her the same way.” Rachel wriggled her hand from his grasp and shifted a lock of hair behind her ear.
    “Don’t be silly, Rache.” He didn’t bother arguing with her. He knew the look. He’d seen it on Sofia’s face. But he refused to believe he’d been giving it back. “She’s no one to me.”

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