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had subtly highlighted the grey-blue
    of her eyes with eyeliner and a brush of smoky eyeshadow, and her lush lips
    were shiny with pink-tinted lipgloss. It made him want to lean down and
    press his lips to hers to see if she still tasted the same. He could smell her
    perfume, her signature summery honeysuckle scent that had clung to his skin
    for hours after making love with her. He had missed that fragrance. It never
    smelled quite the same on anyone else. He stood to greet her, and even
    though she was wearing shiny patent black killer heels he still towered over
    her. ‗Did you bring your passport?‘ he asked. She gave him a churlish look
    from beneath her lashes. ‗I almost didn‘t, but the thought of two million
    reasons why I should made me see reason.‘ Emilio allowed himself a small
    smile of satisfaction. She

    was here under duress but at least she was here. He led her to a quiet corner
    in the bar with a gentle hand at her elbow. He felt her bare skin shiver in
    response to his touch and an arrow of need staked him in his groin. Her skin
    was so soft and creamy, like silk against his fingers. ‗What would you like to
    drink?‘ he asked. ‗Champagne?‘ She shook her head. ‗I‘m not celebrating
    anything,‘ she said, shooting him another look. ‗White wine will do.‘ Emilio
    ordered their drinks and, once they had been served, he leaned back in his
    seat to study her icemaiden features. He knew he deserved her ire. He had
    thrown her out of his life with a callous and ruthless disregard for her
    feelings. He had been so convinced she had betrayed him. The red mist of
    anger he had felt had blinded him to anything but what he believed she had
    done. The image of her with that man taunted him and had done so until he
    had found out about the discovery of her identical twin. Seeing her in the
    flesh again had brought back all the reasons he had wanted to marry her in
    the first place. It wasn‘t just her natural beauty or grace or poise. It wasn‘t
    just her softly spoken voice and the way she nibbled at her bottom lip when
    she was feeling uncertain, or the way she sometimes twirled a loose strand
    of hair around one of her fingers when she was concentrating on something.
    It was something in her eyes, those incredible were-theygrey-were-they-blue
    eyes that had warmed and softened the first time she‘d looked at him. What
    man didn‘t want the woman he had chosen to be his wife to look at him like
    that? As far as he had been concerned, Gisele had been perfect wife material,
    sweet and gentle, biddable and loving. The fact that he hadn‘t been in love
    with her was irrelevant. For his whole life love had been an emotion he

    had never been able to rely on. In his experience, people used the words so
    freely but their actions rarely backed them up. The sex tape scandal had
    reinforced to him how pointless it was to love someone, for people always
    let you down. But in the end he had been the one to let her down. He had
    destroyed her love with his lack of trust in her. But he was determined to get
    her back. He would make it up to her in a thousand different ways. He
    couldn‘t allow a failure like this to blot his life. It felt like a giant ink stain on his soul. He had made the error and it was up to him to do whatever it
    took to fix it. And he would do whatever it took. He knew she still wanted
    him. He had seen it that first day in her shop, the way her body spoke to him
    in its own private language. His own intensely visceral response to her had
    sideswiped him. He had thought he had put his desire for her behind him,
    but it was back with a vengeance as soon as he had laid eyes on her. It was
    an aching, pulsing need to feel her in his arms again. He couldn‘t wait to
    take her upstairs and prove to her they still had a future, that the past could
    be permanently put aside, erased as if it hadn‘t happened. She was playing
    coy with him but he was sure once he kissed her she would melt,