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She blinked at hiood idea forour history? You haven’t even formally interviewed me yet"

"Fine, let’s have the interview then," Gabriel snapped and stalked around back to his chair, grabbing a piece of paper she assumed was her CV off his desk "So you ith your last family for five months? Why did you decide to leave the transferred to Japan, and although they wanted o with them, I decided not to," she replied promptly, determined to act as professionally as possible under the circumstances

"And that was your first live-in situation? The lack of a readily available social life didn’t bother you? The Scotts lived near Greenwich--you may have noticed on your drive here that this is a more isolated location than your previous position," Gabriel re her carefully

Maria hesitated for a"No, the lack of a social life didn’t bother me I don’t mind a quiet life"

"Is that because you already have a boyfriend who plans on visiting you? Should I be letting uest?" he drawled

She refused to be baited "No sir, I don’t have a boyfriend"

"So are you planning on using your days off to go into the city and findhow much you wanted to explore Manhattan," he sneered

Maria flushed and her temper started to cli to provoke her "Despite what you may think, I don’t make it a habit to do random hook-ups--you know very well you were my first!"

"Well it has been six ether--how do I know you aren’t in the habit noouldn’t want to expose my children to possibly ily

She stood up, her temper definitely on fire no could he be so awful! "I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you’re the only rets about that right now!"

He stood up as well and leaned towards her over the desk, glaring at her "Then why did you then? Were you just deterht, and any aze faltering a little and he realized that he had hit a target with his words, iht, aren’t I? You did plan on losing your virginity that night! Any dick would do!"

"No! Well, yes, but--" she said, trying to explain but Gabriel interrupted her curtly, saying, "Please, spare et on with this intervie, shall we?"

He glanced down at her CV again, and Maria bit her lip, perilously close to tears Her passionate, tender lover was gone coer who acted like he hated her

He suddenly stilled, staring at the piece of paper in front of hi cobra before his head shot up, and the shock and horror in his gaze caused her stohty, you’re a nun!?"

She flinched, both at his blaspheotten that information was on her CV "Ex-novice, actually I left the novitiate last year before I took my final vows"

He stared at her in utter disbelief This vibrant and sensual creature had nearly chosen a life devoted to God? Everything in hiht--he’d never met someone less suited to a cloistered life His eyes narrowed as soin ex-novice doing picking up strangebirth control pills on top of that!"

Maria’s entire body vibrated with hurt fury as her control finally broke "An ex-novice who’d been prescribed theulate her period, you jerk! And an ex-novice anted to experience soranted, and who knew she would have as much opportunity to meet someone as a live-in nanny as if she’d stayed a nun! And an ex-novice who didn’t just choose any dick, she waited for the right dick, aan absolute prick to her!"

Gabriel opened his h of his insulting behavior "Mr Trentham, this interview is at an end It’s safe to say that that it would take an act of God for me to work for you!"

With that she whirled away and stalked to the door, opening and sla it shut as she walked quickly down the hallway to the entrance hall She passed Matt who had poked his head out of his office and opened hishinant tears on her face

She rushed to the front door, barely waiting for the startled butler to open the door for her before she barreled through the swirling snow to her car It was snowing much harder now, and the te a foolhardy chance driving through a blizzard, but she would just go to the nearest town ten miles down the road--surely there had to be a place for her to stay until the blizzard had passed and she could figure out her options

She angrily dashed the tears away from her cheeks before they had a chance to freeze on her face She refused to wonder why she felt so devastated--this ti him She’d make sure of it

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN here? I could hear you both yelling at each other fro into the office

Gabriel stood frozen behind his desk, the furious hurt on Maria’s face burned into his retinas He’d been an utter bastard to Maria and his only excuse was that he’d been battling his own rage at her for running froain now, after he’d finally given up on ever seeing her again and deciding to roaned at the thought of Olivia, ould be co at the end of the week for a short stay to ement party

"I don’t knohat you said to her to make her run out of here like a bat outta hell, but I really don’t think it’s a good idea for her to be driving in this weather," Matt said anxiously

His head snapped up at Matt’s words "What do you mean--she left here and drove away?"

Matt nodded "I saw Williams open the front door for her and she didn’t even hesitate before going out into the snow"