Blind Date With the Billionaire Part 3: Back to You Read Online Free PDF

was just thinking about what would've happened if we'd never gotten back together," she replied.
    "I see." Gabe said. "There is something I've been meaning to ask you."
    "Yes?"
    "Why did you run from me that second time at the restaurant? " he asked.
    Monica had almost forgotten about that encounter, but it came flooding back to her. She remembered going out to dinner with Claudette and feeling some burgeoning hope, only to be dashed by seeing Gabe out with another woman. It had made her feel sick to her stomach to think of him with another woman so soon after their own break up.
    "I saw you with another woman," Monica answered. She removed her hand from his grasp and sat back staring at him as if daring him to explain .
    Gabe furrowed his brows and looked like he didn't understand. His brows cleared a moment later when he realized what she was talking about and he laughed.
    "What's so funny?" Monica asked, offended.
    "Oh darling, you thought I was out on a date that night?"
    "What else was I supposed to think? Two attractive people out to dinner together, what else could it be?"
    "Well, I don't find Miranda particularly attractive," Gabe teased. "Then again, she is my cousin, so it would probably be strange if were attracted to her."
    "Oh. I feel so stupid," Monica ruefully. "I thought she was one of your new floozies."
    "I'll be sure to mention that to Miranda the next time I see her," Gabe laughed. "I don't think she's ever been called a floozy before."
    "Gabe, don't you dare!" Monica screeched. "I can't imagine what she'd think of me."
    "I'm teasing, darling. I wouldn't do that to you,' Gabe assured her. "Besides, I want you two to get along. Miranda and I are close and I'd like for you to get to know her."
    "I'd like that," Monica replied.
    "I feel like such a fool jumping to all the wrong conclusions," she added a moment later. "Look how much time I've wasted being angry and upset."
    "We've both been fools. Now let's not talk about the past anymore," Gabe consoled her.
    "Thank you, Gabe," Monica said. "You always know just what to say."
    Monica smiled at Gabe, lost in the intense look of love that shone from his eyes. A voice broke through Monica's haze and she looked up to see two women approaching their table.
    "Gabe, sweetheart," the woman called.
    The woman had a deep sultry voice with a hint of a European accent. Monica knew at once it was Carla. Gabe's head snapped up as he stared at his ex-wife.
    "What a pleasant surprise," she purred.
    "Carla, what are you doing here?" Gabe snapped . His jaw was clenched and Monica saw the muscles in his arm tense at her appearance.
    "Can't a girl go out and get dinner?" she replied airily. "You know Rousseau's has always been a favorite of mine."
    Gabe stared at her coldly as if he were willing her to go away. Carla seemed oblivious to his seething anger or the tension that was surrounding them. Either that or she didn't care. Monica had a suspicion it was the latter.
    "What do you want?" Gabe barked.
    "My , my Gabriel, there is no need to be rude," she shot back. "Suzanne and I were just stopping by to say hi."
    Monica turned to look at the woman standing next to Carla. She was a pretty woman with golden brown hair and cunning green eyes. She stepped forward and flashed her most sickly sweet smile at Gabe, completely ignoring Monica.
    "Hello Gabe," she said, "What brings you here?"
    Monica felt like she had been punched in the gut. The wind was knocked out of her as she struggled for breath. That voice! She recognized it instantly. It belonged to one of the bitches in the bathroom that night of the ball. She still remembered their cruel words and taunts about her weight. Monica could not ignore the rudeness any longer. Both Carla and Suzanne had treated her as if she didn't exist, like she wasn't worth their time or energy to acknowledge. Monica felt the anger boiling within her and heard a buzzing in her ear as she watched these two women still trying to flirt with her man