Mendoza's Secret Fortune by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

For a second, she could only stare at him.

“Matteo, what are you doing here?” Rachel finally managed to ask. He was the very last person she would have expected to turn up on her doorstep tonight.

Or, considering today’s display at the Foundation, ever.

All the way over to her apartment, Matteo tried to talk himself out of coming to see her. At each corner, he told himself to turn the car around and go back. If he went through with this, he was only setting himself up for a fall. Rachel was going to break his heart. He was sure of it.

Coming here tonight, feeling the way he did, was not a good idea, he muttered to himself as he drove.

Yet somehow he couldn’t get himself to turn around, couldn’t make himself pull over and rethink his next move.

Carefully.

It was as if he was on automatic pilot and had no real say or control over what he was about to do.

Though he was afraid of what he would see, Matteo looked over Rachel’s shoulder into her apartment—or what he could see of it.

“Am I interrupting anything?” he asked her, his voice low, bordering on an accusation.

“Yes, you’re interrupting something,” she informed him, her hands on her hips and her eyebrows furrowing. “You’re interrupting my efforts to secure some peace and quiet, which, after the kind of day I just had, would be desperately appreciated.”

“You’re sure that’s all I’m interrupting?” Matteo asked pointedly.

Granted, he hadn’t seen Cisco’s car when he’d driven up, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t parked somewhere on the other side of the small apartment complex. And it certainly didn’t mean that his brother wasn’t here, perhaps even in her bedroom, waiting for him to leave.

Matteo looked at her, his sensitive face dark, his eyes pinning her in place. “I’m not interrupting your date?”

“What date?” she demanded. She was getting really angry at his attitude, and she was more than a little insulted.

He’d gone this far. He might as well spit out the rest of it, even though something within him wanted him to retreat. “With Cisco.”

Rachel tossed her head, struggling to contain her anger.

“I have no date with Cisco,” she informed Matteo coldly. “If I did, I wouldn’t try to hide it. But I don’t. So now you have your answer, and you can go back to wherever it was you came from.”

Angry, hurt, insulted, Rachel started to slam the door on him, but Matteo put his hand up against it. He was a great deal stronger than she was, and he kept the door exactly where it was.

Exasperated, Rachel cried, “What do you want from me?”

Had he cared about her less, he would have behaved more rationally. But this was brand-new territory for him, and he was having trouble finding his way.

No more games, he told himself. Just the truth. “I came to ask you a question.”

She could see that she wasn’t going to be rid of Matteo until he got this—whatever this was—off his chest.

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