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She gasped, her eyes snapping open as she sturip clasped around her forear her fall before she could land in humiliation on her bottom

“Perdón,” she said, blushing She reached up to grip the man’s arms to further steady herself Her eyes widened at the thick muscle she discovered beneath the crisp white shirt

How had she not seen hie Granted, she’d had her eyes closed for a second, but still

She lifted her attention up to his face and their gazes collided Now that she’d stepped out froht from the moon clearly lit up his features

The breath hitched in her throat and she struggled to s Good lord, he had to be theworked at the resort for almost two months, she’d seen her share of attractive men

He was tall compared to her petite frame, and her heart thuth in the hands that held her in a gentle, yet unyielding grip

“Señorita, are you all right?” His question was tinged with concern and spoken in a deep, accented voice that lifted the hairs on the back of her neck and made her breath catch

Her mouth parted to for her attention away fro nose and sexy cleft in his chin

Finally, she raised her head again to see his eyes Eyes that were so dark they seemed almost black, but then perhaps that was just the deception of the night His eyes bore into hers with aih her body

“Señorita?” heany air left in her lungs to flee

“I’m sorry,” she almost squeaked, completely thrown off-balance “What was your question?”

The man’s mouth curled upward and his eyes crinkled a bit, and for so was not so that this man did all that often

His gaze swept down over her so thoroughly, she felt as if it had been his hands touching her instead of siooseflesh on her skin and her cheeks warmed

“Tell me your name, cariño,” he commanded

Cariño She spoke enough Spanish to get by waitressing at the resort, but even though she wracked her brain to place what sounded like an endearo toat her and the intimate way he held her

Really, why hadn’t he let her go yet—andhim to?

Andrés was beginning to wonder if she would ever give him her name, when the woman murmured a soft, “Chloe”

“Chloe,” he repeated, and traced his thumbs over the silky naked skin of her forearm “A beautiful name for a beautiful woman”

And an Auest at his resort? Beneath his hands a sh her body She had the htly parted to draw in unsteady breaths What would that mouth feel like beneath his?

She stared up at him, frozen like a doe trapped by a hunter, with round, soft brown eyes But more than the fear in her stare, there was interest and an awareness of hin

Electricity seeh his body Dios, but he could not have predicted this He’d deliberately decided not to have Pablo seek her out and yet now here she was, in his arms

Andrés drew in a controlled breath and noring her startled gasp “You were not on tonight’s agenda,” he ers into her hair Soft, like the most expensive silk, and with the scent of jase in plans”

Her brows drew together in surprise, but before she could reply, he lowered his head and captured her mouth with his

So soft and sweet, Chloe tasted of vanilla and innocence She let out a distraught cry, the h for him to discover the temptation inside