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as he rinsed off his chest and arms, but it was a lost cause.
    He was even more beautiful then she had imagined, with a broad muscled chest that was smooth and perfect, except for an angry looking ridge of a scar along his left side.
    Bianca winced as she thought about how he had gotten it and the pain it must have caused. It was at that moment that he looked over and their gazes met and held. She couldn't tear her eyes away from him as he shook out his shirt and then used it to towel down his face, arms, and chest. He strolled over to her, bare-chested, and stopped when he was barely a foot away.
    "It was nice of all of you to provide food for the crew today. Most people don't," he said and motioned to his guys as they walked past and started grabbing pieces of sandwich, chips, and salads, and cups of the gazpacho Diana had made.
    "We thought it would be nice to get this project started off on the right foot," she answered and turned slightly, grabbed a plate and placed some food on there for him.
    He reached past her to snag a handful of chips, and his chest brushed against the bare skin of her shoulder. She sucked in a breath and closed her eyes, telling herself it was the heat of the sun making her burn and not the fire from his skin.
    Rey closed his hand around the chips, struggling not to crush them as the shock of her smooth skin against his chest registered. The fragrance of her wafted to him from her nearness and he sucked in a breath. Feeling almost lightheaded from the sudden blast of desire, he reached out to steady himself and found his hand at her waist, beneath the hem of her shirt.
    "Bianca," he murmured as her muscles trembled beneath his hand.
    She looked up at him, her eyes questioning. Her pupils were wide despite the bright sun, her breath shaky. He realized she was experiencing the same desire he was, but this was neither the time nor the place.
    "How about something cold to drink and some food?" he said in low tones, but he didn't move his hand from her waist. As she turned and handed him a plate of food, her free hand came to his side and caressed the warm smooth skin there, making him instantly hard.
    She trembled beneath his hand and struggled to draw a breath. Shakily she said, "This isn't a good idea."
    "It would be crazy," he said, but thought, Crazy good.
    He forced himself to step away, the plate in one hand while he reluctantly dragged the other hand off her waist.
    Bianca grasped her hands tightly before her and looked down until he placed a finger beneath her chin and gently urged her to meet his gaze.
    "Grab a plate and meet me over there. That is, if you want to," he said and motioned in the direction of the tree where the others had sat to share lunch. The shady area was vacant now that the men had returned to work.
    Bianca nodded and he sauntered away. It was then and only then that she finally was able to take a long breath and calm the tremble in her body. For a moment she considered ignoring his request but she'd be damned if she ran away from this, whatever it was.
    She had to confront it head-on as crazy as it was because she couldn't deny that Rey sparked a fire inside her that she couldn't ignore.
     

Chapter Seven
     
     
    The sodas he had sucked down earlier hadn't been enough to quench Alex's thirst. Plus he wanted to make sure that with the heat of the summer sun, Maya wasn't overdoing it.
    He exited the restaurant into the parking lot and stopped short as he noticed Bianca sitting underneath the shade of the tree along with Rey. They were eating together and he would have to be a fool not to see the attraction between them.
    He had first sensed it when Bianca and Rey had been hammering the wall together, and had told himself his intuition was wrong. But his radar was humming again as he watched them. Bianca was smiling, a radiant, broad kind of smile. Rey's grin was just as inviting.
    The pressure of a hand on his arm snared his attention. He looked down into his wife's amused