Returning For His Ruthless Revenge (Mills & Boon Modern) by Louise Fuller

Author:Louise Fuller [Fuller, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-02-28T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IT WAS THE QUICK, easy rhythm of the stewards’ voices, so similar they were almost interchangeable, that grabbed Dove’s attention.

Not that she was really reading. The book in her hands was just a prop. Something to stop her from staring at the man sitting on the other side of the cabin or thinking about what she had set in motion. Up until that moment it had certainly helped with the former. The latter, not so much. Pretty much from the moment Gabriel’s private jet had taken off in Nice her brain had been preoccupied with all the possible outcomes after it landed.

Her heart beat hard and slow as the stewards walked back up the cabin, smiling politely as they passed. They were friends as well as colleagues—she could tell. That was why they sounded so alike. She had read about it in a magazine at the hairdresser’s. It was called phonetic convergence, and it was something that happened between close friends and family. She had it with her mother.

But with Gabriel that mirroring and overlapping had only ever happened with their bodies. When they’d talked he’d been guarded, careful, and there had always been a point in any conversation where he’d checked himself.

When they’d talked.

It was ironic that since agreeing to talk to her on the deck of The Argentum Gabriel had said approximately twenty words to her. Maybe he thought that the cabin of a plane—even a spacious private jet like this one—was not private enough for the conversation they needed to have.

But then they could have stayed on the yacht.

Turning her head slightly, she gazed down through the oval of glass at the water below. They had been in the air for nearly four hours, en route to Pico, one of the islands of the Azores off the coast of Portugal, where Gabriel owned the Quinta dos Louros—a private estate and vineyard.

She had thought they were going back to London. It had only been when they were taking off that he had told her they were flying to Pico. He’d given her no explanation, and she’d been so stunned that he had agreed to talk that it hadn’t occurred to her to argue or cross-examine him. Later, when the burn of adrenalin had faded, she’d concluded that it was just his way of regaining the upper hand and put it to the back of her mind.

Her throat tightened. But now other things were taking centre stage—specifically Gabriel’s insistence that it was she who had sent her father to end things on her behalf. The anger and pain on his face was bright and achingly clear in her memory.

Her eyes darted to where he sat, working on his laptop, his long legs taking up every inch of the generous space in front of his seat.

It wasn’t the first time Gabriel had accused her of sending her father to end their relationship, but she hadn’t given it much thought before. It had felt more like a question of semantics, not fact.

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