CHAPTER 10

          Gabriel looked just like the dark pirate she’d imagined, the one who’d come to plunder the medieval city, to take what he wanted and burn the rest. Calleigh blinked. How had she come up with such a brutal, cruel image? Where had that come from?

“I saw you coming down those stairs in a long red dress… Such a powerful, wonderful vision. Pure perfection,” he said softly. “You were on the arm of my greatest business rival, but I knew at once that I would take you away from him. He had no chance against my determination to have you as part of my life.”

          Slowly, he walked up the stairs toward her.

“I had to have all to myself. I would have taken you from the devil himself.”

          As Gabriel came up the stairs toward her, Calleigh was unable to move. Un