Chapter 7

He grabbed her arm and said,

"I need you one more time before you leave."

She was surprised; today, he was different, almost polite. Then she turned around, and all the desire she had tried to hide over the past few weeks flashed in her eyes.

"What do you want from me?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly, torn between the hope that he wanted her as something more and her doubt.

Gabriel looked at her intensely, his gaze filled with a need she had never seen before.

"Jussara," he b