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to do those things she’d just done to him….he’d make them disappear from her mind.  No man was going to occupy that woman’s mind but him! 
    He heard movement behind her door and closed his eyes, reigning in that temper and the lust just in time.  She opened the door, pulling on her thin, cotton robe at the same time.
    When she saw him, she yelped and almost jumped back into her bedroom, but instead, she pulled herself together and finished tying the robe closed, even clenching the neckline with one hand while she stood there in her bedroom doorway looking at him warily. 
    Rachel was so startled to see Rais in her dad’s kitchen that she almost dove back into her bedroom.  After dreaming such vivid scenes of him making love to her she felt stunned to see him in the flesh like this.  He was ruggedly handsome with a darkness in his eyes that always fascinated her.  This morning, it seemed to be stronger.  There was something about him that was….almost magnetizing her eyes to his physique.  Perhaps she was just imagining things after that dream that had felt so….real!
    “What are you doing here?” she asked, her voice hoarse and dry.  She needed coffee desperately, but she’d have to go around him to reach the coffee on the counter.  After the dream she’d just had, she didn’t want to get too close to him, afraid of what she might do.  She was still shaking from the impact of that dream and her body was almost humming in anticipation . 
    Rais looked at her, taking in her long legs and her messed up hair. She looked like she’d just made love with passionate abandon and he had to close his eyes or lose that control again.  He took a deep breath and when he opened them again, he was back in control.  “We were going riding this morning.”
    She shook her head and backed away.  “No.  I’m not going riding today.  I’m going to help my dad in the stables.”
    He put his hands on his hips , shaking his head at her rejection while his grin grew wider .   She was challenging him and he thought she was adorable.  He would win her over but he was going to enjoy the chase.   “You agreed to go riding with me last night.  That’s why I’m here.  So go pull on riding clothes and let’s get out of here.”  He stopped and his smile turned lethal.  “Unless there’s something more interesting that you’d rather do inside.”   He paused to let his words sink in before he said, “I’m open to suggestions.”
    She gasped and shook her head. “ Rais , I’d really rather not go…”
    “Too bad.   You either come riding with me right now, and believe me, I have a great deal of…energy…to work off,” he said, using the term diplomatically because he was still in a rage about the idea of another man touching her perfect, beautiful body, “Or I’ll take that as an invitation that you want me to stand here and think of other things to do with you.”
    She gasped at his suggestion, her eyes wide with the possibilities.  But before she could go much further, he took a step towards her and she yelped before diving back into her room. 
    “Ten minutes Rachel.  You have ten minutes and then I’m coming in after you.”
    She flew into the bathroom and showered, not bothering to wash her hair because she didn’t have that kind of time.  She didn’t think Rais would really come in to fetch her in ten minutes .  H e’d always acted like a gentleman when he was around her in the past but something told her not to challenge him today . She wasn’t sure he was willing to offer that same gentlemanly behavior this morning.  That look in his eyes told her that he appeared to be a man on the edge of a dangerous emotion and she had absolutely no idea how to deal with whatever was bothering him . 
    She showered and dried off in record time, her eyes flying to the clock every few seconds to gauge her progress.  She pulled on a pair of old riding pants and was just slipping her arms into