Unwrapped by Tracy Wolff

Author:Tracy Wolff [Wolff, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488080425
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

AS SHE WALKED AWAY from her father, Vivian couldn’t help thinking about Rafael and his insistence that he was innocent despite the five years he’d spent in prison. The other night she’d told him she didn’t believe him, but she wasn’t sure that was true.

Would she really be this attracted to him if she thought he was a rapist? Would she really have let him kiss her and touch her if she thought there was a chance he could turn violent?

No matter what had happened fifteen years before, she couldn’t ignore his tenderness with her, the gentle way he held her, the way he never pushed, always made sure that she wanted to be touched before he ever made a move.

The way he’d saved her from being raped by Nacho and his friends.

Those weren’t the marks of a rapist or an abuser—she’d dealt with enough in her career to know that much.

But did that mean he’d never been dangerous, or just that he’d turned his life around? She didn’t know the answer to those questions, but she wasn’t ready to walk away from him yet. The fact of the matter was, she wasn’t going on a date with the man he’d been fifteen years ago. She was dating the man he was now, and the man she knew fought for people who needed help. That’s why she’d accepted the date with him—because she admired the man he had proven himself to be.

Was that good enough for her? Was she going to be able to build something with him, never knowing for certain if he’d committed such a terrible crime? That was something else she couldn’t answer yet, but she knew, for the first time in a very long while, that she wanted to try.

As she climbed into the car, she couldn’t help contrasting Rafael’s strength with her father’s weakness. Doing right by Diego was more important to Rafael than worrying about what had happened to himself all those years before. Her father was worried about the press dragging up Merry’s story, and Vivian realized Rafael must have some of the same worries about his own past. The difference was, he hadn’t abandoned Diego, hadn’t tried to cut himself off from the kid to protect himself.

For no good reason, she was seized by a desire to see Rafael as she pulled into traffic. Before she could talk herself out of it, she flipped a quick U-turn and headed to the center. Surely he wouldn’t mind if she just stopped by for a few minutes….

Of course, by the time she’d pulled into the parking lot behind the center she was trying to think of a reasonable excuse as to why she was there. But her mind was blank, and as she climbed out of the car, she had the sick feeling she was going to make a total idiot of herself.

She didn’t even look decent, her father had been right about that much. She was dressed in old jeans and her favorite Harvard Law sweatshirt.

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