{"id":3305,"date":"2022-07-26T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=3305"},"modified":"2022-11-01T06:28:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T06:28:15","slug":"3305","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/3305\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ring For The Spaniard&#8217;s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-opsdw6-0277e45d2e31378b3596d79105548fd2 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-3305'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mjn8qu-1c2645dfc8d24888d49efcfe4f4340d0\">\n.flex_column.av-mjn8qu-1c2645dfc8d24888d49efcfe4f4340d0{\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-mjn8qu-1c2645dfc8d24888d49efcfe4f4340d0 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-23jjjq-9db8c6cf54d8194b14dd2e2ce1b04825\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-23jjjq-9db8c6cf54d8194b14dd2e2ce1b04825{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-23jjjq-9db8c6cf54d8194b14dd2e2ce1b04825 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-23jjjq-9db8c6cf54d8194b14dd2e2ce1b04825 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-23jjjq-9db8c6cf54d8194b14dd2e2ce1b04825 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  av-linked-heading'><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >A RING FOR THE SPANIARD\u2019S REVENGE<\/h3><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>\u201cWe meet again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now he\u2019s calling the shots!<\/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-jxrivs0d-4b12a81cbcb035f211ad4f1090a2d865'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>For self-made billionaire Vidal Suarez, nothing is out of reach. <em>Except<\/em> exacting revenge on Eva Flores, whose family left a painful mark on his impoverished childhood. Until Eva comes to Vidal to beg for his help. He\u2019s prepared to agree. His one condition? She has to pose as his fianc\u00e9e!<\/p>\n<p>Eva is the perfect addition to Vidal\u2019s tech empire on paper. In reality, the penniless heiress jeopardizes his control as the long-dormant embers between them threaten to become an inferno. 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el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock  av-inherit-size av-linked-heading'><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_above'><p>Excerpt from<\/p>\n<\/div><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >A Ring For The Spaniard\u2019s Revenge<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jxrixqv6-a0d5da72c18a7cd02393577a645f2f16'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Eva Flores shivered even though the sun was shining and the early autumn temperature was balmy. She should be feeling relieved. Happy, even. But she wasn\u2019t even sure she\u2019d know what\u00a0<em>happy<\/em>\u00a0felt like because it had never been a dominant emotion for her. She knew she\u2019d only ever felt it on distinct occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Before she could ruminate on that unpalatable revelation, she figured that she could work with relieved. Beyond relieved. After a year of trying to sell the castillo she\u2019d grown up in, the only home she\u2019d ever known, a potential buyer had finally materialised.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to come and visit now, as a precursor to signing the contracts, and when she\u2019d expressed concern the solicitor had assured her, \u2018He is very interested. He\u2019s the kind of man who wouldn\u2019t be taking time out of his busy schedule if he hadn\u2019t already made up his mind. He just wanted to do this as a formality.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Still, Eva couldn\u2019t help trying to temper her relief with a bit of caution. He hadn\u2019t signed yet and until he did, this crumbling mausoleum was still hers, with all its bleak memories, loneliness and massive debts.<\/p>\n<p>The castillo had felt like a prison for a long time and it effectively still was. Binding her here until she could get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>She was walking through the rambling gardens, long since neglected and overgrown since their last member of staff had left.\u00a0Eva\u2019s gut clenched. She definitely didn\u2019t want to go down\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0memory lane. Much better to focus on the fact that soon she could begin her life in earnest and try to put her past behind her.<\/p>\n<p>This place had claimed too much of her life. And yet she still felt a compulsion to walk its paths, as if to lay some ghost to rest.\u00a0<em>The ghost of her mother<\/em>. A familiar swell of something far more complicated that just plain grief rose up inside Eva. It was grief and anger and a sense of futility. Her mother had dictated Eva\u2019s life in such a controlling way that it was only through her death that Eva been able to get some perspective and enough space to start figuring out who\u00a0<em>she<\/em>\u00a0was.<\/p>\n<p>She halted now at the a rusted wrought iron gate that led into a small walled garden with a fountain in the center. Eva stepped inside and the heady scent of blooms in their last throes of season filled her nostrils.<\/p>\n<p>Weeds ran rampant through the cracks in the stones on the ground and in every nook and cranny of the brick walls. She should feel guilty that it had gone to such waste but all she felt was empty. Numb.<\/p>\n<p>She turned around slowly to see where an elaborately decorated gazebo stood in a corner, almost hidden by foliage. A beautiful and whimsical piece of architecture that some previous ancestor had had installed. It certainly hadn\u2019t been her parents who had shared no love at all, her father eventually walking out and leaving them when Eva was eight.<\/p>\n<p>That act had thrown her mother into a deep pit of bitterness and despair and had made her toxic. She\u2019d turned to Eva as a vessel to project all of her betrayal and towering rage seeing in her daughter an opportunity to make sure she was never hurt in the same way. And so far, Eva could attest, she hadn\u2019t been. So maybe her mother\u2019s legacy had worked.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it wasn\u2019t as if she\u2019d had an opportunity to meet anyone to be hurt.\u00a0<em>Except for<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 she shut down her mind. Thinking of him caused a maelstrom of emotions that Eva didn\u2019t want to investigate. He always had, ever since she\u2019d first laid eyes on him when she\u2019d been a young teenager. Tall and more beautiful than anything she\u2019d ever seen in her life. Even then she\u2019d known that he connected with her in a way that scared her and that she didn\u2019t fully understand.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother had seen it though. She\u2019d found Eva watching him out of the window one day when he\u2019d been working in the garden. Shirtless. Olive skin gleaming. Strong muscles flexing.\u00a0Her mother had drawn her close and said, \u2018A boy like him is driven purely by brute desires, Eva. You are worth so much more than him. But that doesn\u2019t mean that you can\u2019t remind him of that&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d had no idea what her mother was talking about but it had become apparent over the years. Her mother had wanted her to entice him. To provoke those brute desires so she could rise above them and laugh at him. To remind him of his place and the fact that she was totally unattainable.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem was that he hadn\u2019t been a brute. Far from it. He\u2019d been studious, polite and&#8230;<em>sexy<\/em>. Eva had become progressively more and more aware of him so that by that last summer\u00a0when she\u2019d turned eighteen, she\u2019d felt like a tinder box about to blow up with surging desires and aching needs and emotions far too confusing to know how to handle. So she hadn\u2019t handled them.<\/p>\n<p>The last time she\u2019d seen him had been here in this space, the last time it had looked as it should.<\/p>\n<p>She could still remember him, so tall and powerful. Short dark hair. Serious expression. Looking at her with a mixture of wariness, pity and anger. It had enflamed her. She\u2019d desperately wanted to provoke a reaction. And she had.<\/p>\n<p>Her skin prickled at the memory. Unconsciously she curled her fingers over her palm. She could still feel the heat of anger and rage and worse, the shock of what she\u2019d almost done. The way he\u2019d looked at her with disgust. She\u2019d never felt so small. So&#8230;lost.<\/p>\n<p>She cursed herself for letting her imagination run amok into the past. Today was about the future. And she realised she was mooning around the grounds still dressed in worn jeans, an even more worn shirt and scuffed sneakers. With her hair pulled back messily, she didn\u2019t look remotely like the owner of a crumbling castillo. If she could still be called an owner when the bank really owned it all.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sorry state of affairs for the last person in a line descended from her mother\u2019s illustrious family. She knew she was the last, because she never intended on having children.<br \/>\nNot after what she\u2019d experienced. The thought of having a child sent a sense of terror through her. At the thought that she could subject them to what she\u2019d been subjected to. Even with the best will in the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enough<\/em>. She had to get ready. 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