Forbidden to Her Spanish Boss by Susan Stephens

Author:Susan Stephens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-06-24T13:17:08+00:00

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‘A new era unfolds!’ the landlady at the pub exclaimed the moment she heard Rose’s voice. ‘Señor Acosta is not only keeping us all on, he’s increasing our wages. What a marvel he is, Rose. The man hasn’t stopped all day.’

No, Raffa had definitely been busy, Rose reflected tensely as she replayed the conversation with Declan. ‘If he’s still there, I’m coming over to speak to him. See you soon—’ Before the landlady had a chance to answer, Rose had cut the line, grabbed her battered waxed jacket from the hook behind the door, and was on her way to confront a man causing more uproar in the village than if aliens had landed.

There was no doubt Raffa could do a lot for the area. Equally, trying to stop him doing anything people in the village disagreed with would be like trying to stop a juggernaut in its tracks.

Ideas flooded Rose’s mind. Digging out her phone with frozen fingers, she placed a call, and hurried on. She’d barely walked half a mile when she heard a powerful engine approaching. Pressing back into the bare twigs of the hedge, she gasped with shock as the vehicle roared past, shooting filthy water into her face. There was only one man who could afford to drive a car like that around here. Boss or not, she shook her fist at the disappearing tail lights. The SUV screeched to a halt. Raffa must have seen her through the rear-view mirror. Good job he hadn’t heard her swearing at him. Mud-drenched, she stalked towards him. Not only was Raffa Acosta a control freak, who thought he could buy up Rose’s home town, he was also, she reluctantly noted as he opened the driver’s window, the hottest guy this side of hell.

‘What do you think you’re doing?’ she blazed on a breath tense with anger.

‘I wanted to see you.’

‘Well, now you’ve seen me, what d’you think?’ She held out her arms, to reveal the extent of her soaking.

‘You need a bath?’ Raffa suggested in a husky drawl that would have made her toes curl, if they hadn’t been frozen solid in her boots.

‘Hop in, Rose. You’ll be warm in here.’

‘You’ll be seared to a crisp if I climb in beside you. Where do you think you are? A racetrack?’

‘Truce?’ Raffa suggested, with a look in his eyes and a curve to his sinfully sensuous mouth that brought a rush of inconvenient memories of the hot kind flooding back. ‘Truce as far as the farmhouse, at least,’ he amended. ‘I’m here to repent.’

Rose hummed.

‘When you’re clean and warm again, I’ll explain. Meanwhile...’ leaning across the cab, he opened the passenger door ‘...jump in.’

She was freezing cold, covered in mud and still furious, but the draught of warm air from the interior of the cab was fragrant with the spicy aroma of Raffa. ‘There’ll be a surcharge for valeting the vehicle,’ she warned.

A smile flickered at one corner of his mouth. ‘I think I can cover it.

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