Her Latin Lover (Contemporary Romance)

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up to leave.
    “Is everything ok?” Mary asked.
    “Yes, everything is fine. Jorge and Isabella came here after his car broke down. It appears that his spare tyre was flat and he was unable to change it. They had to walk back to the town to get someone to help them. However, Isabella is as strong as a horse and after she had something to eat and drink here, a neighbour gave her a lift back to my house. They left just half an hour before we arrived. Jorge has gone to find a friend of his to help him with his car. We should be getting back now. Isabella will be wondering where we are.”
    After much hand shaking and farewells, they finally left the house and headed back to Paulo’s jeep. The drive back was more leisurely and Javier and Carlos sang songs in the back all the way home which prevented Mary from having much of a conversation with Paulo in the front. As soon as they pulled up in front of the hacienda, Isabella came running out, waving her hands in the air and crying. Paulo gave her a big hug and did his best to calm her down.
    “She is very upset about coming back late and she’s worried that she won’t have time to cook us a proper meal this evening!” Paulo translated for Mary.
    “She doesn’t need to worry about dinner. We could go back to Corazon for the fiesta and eat there,” Mary replied. She had never been to a fiesta before and by the look of things, it was going to be one huge street party.
    “Absolutely not! We are staying here where you will be safe.”
    “I’m not hiding away until it’s time for me to fly back to London. I’m not scared of El Leon. We should go to the fiesta and show him that he doesn’t frighten us. Surely it’s more dangerous up here all alone in the hills.”
    “My men are here to protect us.” Paulo gestured at the dozen farmers who stood around the outside of the house.
    “They could come with us. I bet they wouldn’t want to miss the fiesta, would they?” Mary could see that her suggestion had struck a cord. She pressed her point. “If we had a dozen armed men and the entire town around us, what could El Leon do?”
    “Alright, we’ll go, but not too late and only for an hour. We’ll set off at eight and be back by ten.”
     
     
     

 
     
     
     
    Chapter 8
     
    Paulo spent what was left of the afternoon talking to the men and giving them instructions for the evening. All of them were thrilled that they would be going to the fiesta, as Paulo knew they would be, but they had strict instructions not to get drunk and to keep a close eye on Mary. Some of them asked if they could go home first and fetch their families. Paulo agreed reluctantly, but he asked them to come back to his house later that evening and not stay out all night at the fiesta. He would have preferred to have kept everyone safe at the house, as he had already had one scare that day with Isabella going missing and he didn’t need another one. However, he couldn’t keep Mary caged up in the house like a trapped animal. Also, he would show El Leon that he wasn’t scared of him. He would ignore his threats and go to the fiesta with her along with everyone else.
    Just before eight o’clock he was standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for her. He presumed that as she was British, she would be on time unlike most South Americans who saw nothing amiss in turning up two or even three hours late to an appointment. He was correct: at one minute past eight she appeared at the top of the stairs. Paulo gasped when he saw her.
    “Where did you find that?” he asked in a voice that was little more than a whisper. Mary didn’t seem to hear him and started to descend the staircase. She was wearing the exact same scarlet dress that Clara wore in the painting in front of him. The only difference was the hair. Instead of the dark flowing ringlets, Mary’s short, honey-coloured hair was curled softly around her face and she was wearing large gold hoops instead of the diamond earrings that had

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