{"id":1928,"date":"2015-07-19T13:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T12:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/abbygreen\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=218"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:41:33","slug":"one-night-with-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/one-night-with-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"One Night With The Enemy"},"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-1928'><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=\"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>Nicolas San Cristobal de Rojas and Madalena Vasquez are from two feuding families who own neighbouring vineyards. Years ago Maddie rejected Nic in a brutal manner. He\u2019s never forgiven her. When she returns to Argentina after the death of her father to take over the business Nic has two wishes: to seek vengeance for what she did to him, and to see her gone for good.<\/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 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itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Maddie Vasquez stood in the shadows like a fugitive. Just yards away, the plushest hotel in Mendoza rose in all its majestic colonial glory to face the imposing Plaza Indepencia. She reassured herself that she wasn\u2019t actually a fugitive, she was just collecting herself\u2026she could see the calibre of the crowd going into the foyer: monied and exclusive. The elite of Mendoza society.<\/p>\n<p>The evening was melting into night and lights twinkled in bushes and trees nearby lending the scene a fairytale air. Maddie\u2019s soft mouth firmed and she tried to quell her staccato heart beat. It had been a long time, if ever, that she\u2019d believed in fairytales. She\u2019d never harboured illusions about the dreamier side of life. A mother who saw you only as an accessory to be dressed up and paraded like a doll and a father who resented you for not being the son he\u2019d lost would do that to a child.<\/p>\n<p>Maddie shook her head as if that could shake free the sudden melancholy assailing her and at the same time her eye was caught by the almost silent arrival of a low slung silver vehicle at the bottom of the main steps which led up to the hotel. Instinctively she drew back more. The car was clearly vintage and astronomically expensive. Her mouth dried and her palms got sweaty \u2013 would it be \u2013 ? The door was opened by a uniformed hotel doorman and a tall shape uncurled from the driving seat.<\/p>\n<p><i>It was him.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Her heart stopped beating for a long moment.<\/p>\n<p>Nicol\u00e1s Cristobal de Rojas. The most successful vintner in Mendoza and probably Argentina by now. Not to mention his expansion into French Bordeaux country which ensured he had two vintages a year. In the notoriously fickle world of winemaking, the Rojas estate profits had tripled and quadrupled in recent years and success oozed from every inch of his six foot four, broad shouldered frame.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a black tuxedo suit Maddie could see his gorgeous, yet stern and arrogant features as he cast a bored looking glance around him. It skipped over where she was hiding like a thief and when he looked away her heart stuttered back to life and she dragged in a breath.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d forgotten how startling his blue eyes were. He looked leaner. Darker. Sexier. His distinctive dark blond hair had always made it easy to mark him out from the crowd, not that his sheer charisma and good looks wouldn\u2019t have marked him out anyway. He\u2019d always been more than his looks\u2026he\u2019d always carried a tangible aura of power and sexual energy.<\/p>\n<p>Another flash of movement made her drag her eyes away and she saw a tall blonde beauty emerging from the other side of the car, helped by the conscientious doorman. As Maddie watched, the woman walked around to his side, her long fall of blonde hair shining almost as much as the floor \u2013 length silver lame dress which outlined every slim curve of her body with a loving touch.<\/p>\n<p>The woman linked her arm through his \u2013 Maddie couldn\u2019t see the look they shared but from the smile on the woman\u2019s face she didn\u2019t doubt it was <i>hot<\/i>. A sudden shaft of physical pain lanced her and Maddie put a hand to her belly in reaction. <i>No<\/i>, she begged mentally, she didn\u2019t want him to affect her like this. She didn\u2019t want him to affect her at all.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d wasted long teenage years dreaming about him, lusting after him, building daydreams around him. And that foolish dreaming had culminated in catastrophe and a fresh deepening of the generations old hostility between their families. It had caused the rift to end all rifts, it had broken her own family apart. She\u2019d realised all of her most fervent fantasies but had also been thrown into a nightmare of horrific revelations.<\/p>\n<p>The last time she\u2019d seen Nicol\u00e1s Cristobal de Rojas had been a few years ago in a club in London. Their eyes had clashed across the thronged room and she\u2019d never forget the look of pure loathing on his face before he\u2019d turned away and disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Sucking in deep breaths and praying for control now, Maddie squared her shoulders. She couldn\u2019t lurk in the shadows all night. She\u2019d come to tell Nicol\u00e1s Cristobal de Rojas that she was home and had no intention of selling out to him. Not now, or ever. She held the long legacy of her family in her hands and it would not die with her. He had to know that or he might put the same pressure on her as he\u2019d done to her father \u2013 taking advantage of his physical and emotional weakness to encourage him to sell to his vastly more successful neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>As much as she\u2019d have loved to hide behind solicitor\u2019s letters \u2013 she couldn\u2019t afford to pay the legal fees. And she didn\u2019t want Rojas to think she was too scared to confront him herself. She tried to block out the last cataclysmic meeting they\u2019d had \u2013 if she went down that road now she\u2019d turn around for sure. Focus on the present. And the future.<\/p>\n<p>She knew better than anyone just how ruthless the Rojas family could be, but even she had blanched at the pressure Nicol\u00e1s de Rojas had put on an ailing man. It was the kind of thing she\u2019d have expected of his father, but somehow, despite everything \u2013 not of Nicol\u00e1s\u2026<i>more fool her<\/i>. She of all people should have known what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>With a shaking hand she smoothed down the glittery black dress she wore. Maddie\u2019s meagre budget since she\u2019d left Argentina hadn\u2019t run to buying party dresses. Tonight was the prestigious annual Mendoza Vintners Dinner and she wouldn\u2019t have been able to get close to the place if she didn\u2019t look the part. Luckily she\u2019d found some of her mother\u2019s dresses that her father hadn\u2019t destroyed in his rage eight years before\u2026<\/p>\n<p>At first it had looked modest enough \u2013 high \u2013 necked at the front. It was only when she\u2019d had it on, and was aware that if she didn\u2019t leave soon she\u2019d miss her window of opportunity that she\u2019d realized that it was backless \u2013 to just above her buttocks. All of her mother\u2019s other dresses needed serious dry \u2013 cleaning if she was going to change, this one had somehow miraculously been protected in a plastic covering. So it was this dress or nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Maddie just wished that her mother had been less flamboyant and taller. At five foot nine the dress ended around Maddie\u2019s mid \u2013 thigh, showing lots of pale leg. Her unusual colouring of black hair, green eyes and pale skin was courtesy of a great \u2013 great \u2013 grandmother who had come to Argentina with a wave of Irish immigrants and who had subsequently married into the Vasquez family.<\/p>\n<p>So now as she finally stepped from the shadows outside the hotel and the gentle breeze whistled over her bare flesh, she felt ridiculously exposed. Mustering up all the courage she would need for this encounter she valiantly ignored the double \u2013 take glances she drew of recognition and strode into the marbled and luxurious lobby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<p>Nicol\u00e1s Cristobal de Rojas stifled a yawn. He\u2019d been working around the clock to ensure this year\u2019s grapes would be ready to pick soon. After a mercurial summer, they would either have one of the best vintages on their hands, or the worst. He grimaced slightly, he knew bringing in his vintage wasn\u2019t the only excuse for driving himself like a demon. That work ethic was buried deep in his fraught childhood \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Really darling,\u2019 came a dry voice to his right, \u2018am I that boring?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Nic forced his attention back into the room and looked down at his date and quirked a mocking smile, \u2018Never.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His blonde companion squeezed his arm playfully, \u2018I think the ennui is getting to you Nic, you need to go to Beunos Aires and have some fun \u2013 I don\u2019t know how you stand it in this backwater,\u2019 she shuddered theatrically and then said something about going to the powder room and disappeared with a sexy sway to her walk.<\/p>\n<p>Nic was relieved to be immune to this very feminine display and watched as male heads swivelled to watch her progress. He shook his head ruefully and thanked his lucky stars that Estella\u2019s presence tonight might at least temporarily stave off the more determined of the Mendoza man \u2013 eaters. He was in no mood to humour the mercenary women he attracted in droves. His last lover had screamed hysterically at him for an hour and accused him of having no heart or soul. He had no desire to head down that path again any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>He could do without the sex \u2013 if that was going to be the outcome, and if truth be told, his last sexual encounters had all felt curiously\u2026empty. Satisfying on one level only. Yet, as for a more long \u2013 term relationship? He certainly had no intention of even thinking about that any time soon. The toxic relationship of his parents had cautioned him from an early age. He was going to choose any long \u2013 term partner with extreme care and diligence. Naturally there would be a long \u2013 term partner at some point in the future; he had a valuable legacy to pass onto the next generation and he had no intention of breaking the precious cycle of inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>Just then he saw a figure appear in the doorway to the ballroom. Inexplicably his skin tightened over his bones and the back of his neck prickled \u2013 the same way it had just now outside the hotel when he\u2019d felt as if he was being watched.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t make out the woman\u2019s features, he could only make out long long shapely pale legs and a glittering short black dress which outlined a slender figure. But something about her was so instantly <i>familiar<\/i>. In his gut. Midnight black wavy hair was swept over one shoulder and then he saw her head turn towards him. Even from where he stood he could see a stillness enter her frame and then she started to walk\u2026directly towards him.<\/p>\n<p>Ridiculously Nic felt the need to turn and leave. But he stood his ground. As she came closer and closer, weaving through the crowd, a suspicion grew and formed in his head. <i>It couldn\u2019t be<\/i> he told himself. <i>It\u2019s been years\u2026she was in London.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>He was barely aware of the hushed murmurs surrounding him and growing louder as the woman finally came to a stop just a few feet away. Recognition and incredulity warred in his head. Along with the realisation that she was<i>stunning<\/i>. She had always been beautiful, slightly ethereal, but she\u2019d matured into a true beauty since he\u2019d seen her last. She was statuesque and slender and curvaceous all at once. An intoxicating package. And Nic hadn\u2019t even realised that he\u2019d given her such a thorough examination until his eyes met hers and he saw the pink flush in her pale cheeks. It had a direct effect on his body, causing a hot throb of desire in his groin.<\/p>\n<p>The ennui he\u2019d just been teased about was long gone. Too many emotions and sensations were starting to fizz in his gut to make sense of \u2013 the dominant ones being acrid betrayal and humiliation, <i>still<\/i>, after all these years \u2013 so he retreated behind a cold wall of anger. Anything to douse this very unwelcome stabbing of desire. His eyes narrowed and clashed with eyes so green they looked like jewels. He had to exert every ounce of his iron control not to be flung back into time and remember what it had felt like to almost drown in those eyes. 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