Hot Blooded

strange,
irregular beat. For a moment she could scarcely breathe, scarcely think. If she
lost her brother and sister she would have nothing. No one.
    Pequeña
? The word was a soft inquiry in her mind. A gentle soothing
caress of reassurance. She heard it clearly, as if Rafael De La Cruz was
standing beside her, his mouth against her ear. Worse, she felt his fingers
trail down her face,
touching
her skin, touching the inside of her
until she felt her body react in a purely sensual way.
    Colby was shocked and frightened by the way his voice seemed familiar and
right. Intimate. By the way her body clenched and heated in response. She
managed to smile her reassurance at Ginny even while she tried to build the wall
in her mind to keep Rafael out. "Clinton Daniels always seems to find the time
to gossip about everyone, doesn't he? I think that man needs a full-time job to
keep him occupied." She hugged Ginny to her. "You are a legal citizen of this
country, honey. The courts aren't just going to turn you over to someone you
don't even know. It will never come to that. Daniels was just trying to get a
rise out of you. These people will go back to Brazil and everything will be back
to normal." They had to go back to Brazil and Rafael had to go back with them.
Soon. Immediately.
    "Yeah," Paul added, digging at his sister's ribs, "the normal thing, hard
work, more hard work, working from early morning until late at night. Getting up
in the middle of the night and working more."
    "Don't we all wish you did that," Colby teased. "Seriously, you two, forget
this problem with the De La Cruz brothers, they don't like me any more than I
like them. Those men are positively archaic. I can see them as some kind of
dungeon masters in the fourteenth century, where women were owned by their
fathers and husbands."
    "Really?" Ginny looked dreamy for a minute. "I picture them as kings in a
castle, great lords or something like that. They're good-looking."
    Colby wrinkled her nose. "Do you think? I hadn't noticed." She managed to
keep a straight face for all of three seconds before she dissolved into gales of
laughter along with her younger sister while Paul looked on in complete
exasperated disgust.

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