{"id":1920,"date":"2015-07-24T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/abbey\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=46"},"modified":"2015-08-25T19:52:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:52:40","slug":"when-falcones-world-stops-turning-1-blood-brothers-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/when-falcones-world-stops-turning-1-blood-brothers-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"When Falcone\u2019s World Stops Turning  #1 Blood Brothers Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-d18d8c2c81d10022ebd21ffa95322c35 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1920'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_one_half  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Description<\/h3><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>She has the power to change everything\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Rafaele Falcone runs his luxury auto empire and private life with the same ice-cold ruthlessness. Emotions play no part in his decisions, and he always demands the best, so he doesn\u2019t hesitate to ask brilliant engineer Samantha Rourke to join his company\u2014even though he walked away from her years before.<\/p>\n<p>That sexy Italian accent still sends shivers down her spine, but gutsy Sam knows it\u2019s not just about her impossible desire to feel his hands on her body once again. Because Falcone is about to discover her deepest secret\u2014one that will send his world into a spin!<\/p>\n<p>Blood Brothers Series Book #1.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-c92618446e5c68b64e558e8e19060c32-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><a href='#excerpt'  class='avia-button av-av_button-c92618446e5c68b64e558e8e19060c32 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-dark'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue84f' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Read an Excerpt<\/span><\/a><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-f9c49c3d3336fc54a3f31ed109c785bd\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-f9c49c3d3336fc54a3f31ed109c785bd{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-f9c49c3d3336fc54a3f31ed109c785bd 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class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>\u2018Sam, sorry to bother you but there\u2019s a call for you on line one\u2026someone with a very deep voice and sexy foreign accent.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Rourke went very still. <i>Deep voice, sexy foreign accent<\/i>. The words sent a shiver of foreboding down her spine and a lick of something much hotter through her pelvis. She told herself she was being ridiculous and looked up from the results she\u2019d been reading to see the secretary of the research department at the London University.<\/p>\n<p>Kind eyes twinkled mischievously in a matronly face. \u2018Did you get up to something at the weekend? Or should I say some<i>one<\/i>?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Again that shiver went down Sam\u2019s spine but she just smiled at Gertie. \u2018Chance would be a fine thing. I spent all weekend working on Milo\u2019s playschool nature project with him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The secretary smiled and said indulgently, \u2018You know I live in hope Sam, you and Milo need a gorgeous man to come and take care of you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sam gritted her teeth and kept smiling, restraining herself from pointing out how well she and Milo were doing without a man. Now she couldn\u2019t wait to take the call. \u2018Did you say line one?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Gertie winked and disappeared and Sam took a deep breath before picking up the phone and pressing the flashing button. \u2018Dr Samantha Rourke here.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There was silence for a few seconds and then came the voice. Low, deep, sexy and infinitely memorable. \u2018<i>Ciao<\/i> Samantha, it\u2019s Rafaele\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The prickle of foreboding became a slap in the face. He was the only one apart from her father who had called her Samantha, unless it had been <i>Sam<\/i> in the throes of passion. All the blood in her body seemed to drain south to the floor. Anger, guilt, emotional pain, lust and an awful treacherous tenderness flooded her in a confusing tumult.<\/p>\n<p>She only realized she hadn\u2019t responded when the voice came again, cooler. \u2018Rafaele Falcone\u2026perhaps you don\u2019t remember.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As if that was humanly possible!<\/p>\n<p>Her hand gripped the phone handle and she managed to get out, \u2018No\u2026I mean, yes, I remember.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sam wanted to laugh hysterically. How could she forget the man when she looked into a miniature replica of his face and green eyes every day?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<i>Bene<\/i>,\u2019 came the smooth answer, \u2018How are you Sam? You\u2019re a doctor now?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yes\u2026\u2019 Sam\u2019s heart was doing funny things, beating so hard she felt breathless. \u2018I got my doctorate after\u2026\u2019 she faltered and the words reverberated in her head unspoken, <i>after you came into my life and blew it to smithereens.<\/i> She fought valiantly for control and said in a stronger voice, \u2018I got my doctorate since I saw you last. How can I help you?\u2019 Again a bubble of hysteria rose up: <i>how about helping him by telling him he has a son?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am here in London because we\u2019ve set up a UK base for Falcone Motors.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That\u2019s\u2026nice.\u2019 Sam said a little redundantly. The magnitude of who she was talking to seemed to hit her all of a sudden and she went icy all over. Rafaele Falcone. Here in London. He\u2019d tracked her down, why? <i>Milo<\/i>. Her son, her world. <i>His son<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Sam\u2019s first irrational thought was that he must know and then she forced herself to calm down. No way would Rafaele Falcone be calling her up sounding so blas\u00e9 if he knew. She needed to get rid of him though, fast. And then think.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Look\u2026it\u2019s nice to hear from you but I\u2019m quite busy at the moment\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rafaele\u2019s voice took on a cool edge again. \u2018You\u2019re not curious as to why I\u2019ve contacted you?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>That sliver of fear snaked down Sam\u2019s spine again as an image of her adorable dark haired son came into her mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I, well\u2026I guess I am.\u2019 She couldn\u2019t have sounded less enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p>Rafaele\u2019s voice was almost arctic now. \u2018I was going to offer you a position with Falcone Motors. The research you\u2019re currently conducting is exactly in the area we want to develop.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sheer blind panic gripped Sam\u2019s innards at his words. She\u2019d worked for this man once before and nothing had been the same since. Her tone frigid she said, \u2018I\u2019m afraid that\u2019s impossible. I\u2019m committed to working on behalf of the University.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Silence for a few taut seconds and then Rafaele responded with a terse, \u2018I see.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sam could tell that Rafaele had expected her to drop at his feet in a swoon of gratitude, even just at the offer of a job, if nothing more personal. It\u2019s the effect he had on most women. He hadn\u2019t changed. In spite of what had happened between them. The words he\u2019d left lingering in the air when he\u2019d walked away from her resonated as if it had happened yesterday: <i>It\u2019s for the best cara. After all it wasn\u2019t as if this was ever anything serious, was it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d so obviously wanted her to agree with him that Sam had done so in a flat and emotionless voice. Her body drained of all feeling. Relief had been a tangible force around him. It was something that she hadn\u2019t forgotten and which had helped her to believe she\u2019d made the right decision to take full responsibility for Milo on her own. Even so, her conscience pricked her now:<i>you should have told him<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Panic galvanised Sam, Rafaele Falcone\u2019s offer of a job barely impinging on her consciousness. \u2018Look, I really am quite busy. If you don\u2019t mind?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You\u2019re not even interested in discussing this?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sam recalled the bile that had risen within her when Rafaele had made his disinterest all too clear and bit out curtly, \u2018No, I\u2019m not interested. Goodbye Signore Falcone.\u2019<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<p><i>Goodbye Signore Falcone<\/i>, and this from a woman he knew intimately. Rafaele looked at the phone in his hand for a long moment. Not comprehending the fact that she had just hung up on him. Women did not hang up on him.<\/p>\n<p>Rafaele put the phone down and his mouth firmed. But Samantha Rourke had never been like other women. She\u2019d been different from the start. Rafaele felt restless and got up from his seat to pace over to the huge window that overlooked operations at the new UK base on the outskirts of London. But for once his attention wasn\u2019t on operations.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d come to his factory in Italy as an intern after completing her masters in mechanical automotive engineering. The youngest and only woman in the group of men. Scarily bright and intelligent. He would have had no compunction hiring her on the spot and paying her whatever she asked just to keep her working for him\u2026but he\u2019d become distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Distracted by her sexily studious air and her tall, slim body. Distracted by the mannish clothes she insisted on wearing which made him want to peel them off to see the curves hinted at, but hidden underneath. Distracted by her flawless pale celtic skin and those huge almond shaped eyes set in delicate features. Grey eyes, like a stormy sea.<\/p>\n<p>Distracted by the way she would look at him and blush when he caught her eye and the way she would catch her lower lip between small white teeth. Distracted by that fall of inky black hair which she kept tucking behind her ear. And as time had worn on, distracted by the slow \u2013 burning licking flames of desire that grew hotter and stronger every time he saw her.<\/p>\n<p>Rafaele had fought it. He didn\u2019t like it, and especially not in the workplace. There were plenty of females working in his factory and yet none of them had ever turned his head. His life was run on strict lines and he\u2019d always kept his personal life well away from his work. But she was so far removed from the kind of woman he normally went for: polished, sophisticated. Worldly wise. Women who were sexy and knew it and knew what to do with it. Cynical, like him.<\/p>\n<p>Sam had been none of those things. Except sexy. And he knew she didn\u2019t know it. She seemed to have absolutely no awareness of the fact that men\u2019s gazes lingered on her as she passed by. It enraged Rafaele. The hot spurt of possessiveness was an alien concept to him. Before they\u2019d even kissed!<\/p>\n<p>In the end, sexual frustration had been such a tight ball of need inside him that one day he\u2019d called her to his office and without being able to say a word, had taken her face in his hands and kissed her, and drowned in an intoxicating sweetness he\u2019d never tasted before.<\/p>\n<p>Even now that memory alone had an effect on Rafaele\u2019s libido and body. He cursed. He\u2019d thought of her months ago at his mother\u2019s funeral. He thought of her more often than he liked to admit. Sam was the one who had taken him too close to the edge. They had shared more than just a brief sexual history, they had almost shared\u2026<i>a child<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Even now the shiver of fear snaked down Rafaele\u2019s spine. How close he\u2019d come to dealing with something he never wanted to deal with. It was what he needed to remember. He swung around and stared blankly into his huge office. Clearly she wanted nothing to do with him, and he should want to have nothing to do with her.<\/p>\n<p>He should not have given in to the compulsion to track her down. He should steer well clear of Samantha Rourke and put her out of his mind. 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