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about, Rhianna dulce .’
    Sweet Rhianna ... Something deep within her quivered a response to the endearment and fear shivered through her. She was not his sweet Rhianna, not any more. And there was no way on earth she would allow him back into her life. ‘Go away, Gabriel. Just leave me alone.’
    He moved closer, his grip on her arm keeping her exactly where he wanted her. ‘Is that what you really want? Back on the dance floor it seemed that my body could recall yours very well, every movement familiar to me. I can feel your attraction to me, even as you try to send me away. Your body remembers what we shared together, Rhianna. It remembers how it was to make love with me.’
    Blood pounded through her veins at the memories his words stirred; her body did indeed remember everything her head had tried to forget. She could recall all too clearly how intoxicating his lovemaking could be, the way he could set her on fire with his lightest caress... But thoughts like that were madness. ‘I don’t want to remember anything about our time together,’ she told him in a breathless undertone, conscious that they were receiving some curious looks from those around them. ‘I just want to be left alone.’
    ‘That, I fear, is impossible now.’ He shook his head, ‘It was unfortunate that you came here tonight Rhianna. Unfortunate for you, because now that I have seen you again I want what we once had.’ He ignored her involuntary murmur of protest, ‘Unfortunate for me, because I did not come here to re-ignite a relationship I had thought was gone. But plans change and destiny, it seems, intervenes.’ There was no escaping the assurance in his voice. He really did believe that he could simply walk back into her life and take up where he had left off. He dropped his grip on her arm but only so that his fingers could slide down the curve of her cheek, thumb pausing to rub lightly across the fullness of her bottom lip. ‘Now that I have seen you, I have only one thought in my head.’
    ‘Gabriel, stop it-’
    ‘I want to make love to you again. I want to feel that sweet body wrapped around me and have you drive away every thought in my head with your softness and your warmth. To lose myself in you completely...’ Rhianna stared up at him, momentarily mesmerized by the intensity in his eyes and in his words. ‘You will be mine again. It is inevitable. That man... I might regret taking you from him but he means nothing to me and soon, I will see to it that he means nothing to you.’ The hand slipped to the nape of her neck and she almost groaned as he stroked the flesh, remembering exactly where she was the most sensitive.
    ‘Rhianna.’
    The voice seemed to come from a distance but it broke the spell that Gabriel appeared to have woven around her so effortlessly. With just a touch and a few words ... Rhianna blinked up at Gabriel for a moment longer then stepped back as if she’d been burned. She looked around to find Grady behind her, frowning with irritation. ‘What the hell are you doing?’ he demanded.
    Rhianna flushed. What had she been doing? ‘Leaving. Now,’ she said abruptly, moving to stand behind her boss as if he could offer her protection from the irresistible force that was Gabriel Ortega. ‘If you don’t mind.’
    ‘Fine by me,’ Grady grunted, giving Gabriel an unfriendly look.
    Strangely, Gabriel made no move to stop them, something that surprised Rhianna considering his words. It wasn’t until she was in the car on the way home that she realized, with a cold shiver of apprehension, that Gabriel didn’t need to stop her.
    With his money and connections, he’d have no trouble at all finding her again.
    And there was no doubt in the world that he would come looking.

Chapter Three

    ‘Mommy, can we go down to the beach today? Can we?’
    Rhianna glanced down at her son and smiled. It had been raining steadily for three days and he was sick of being cooped up in the house. She had finished