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eyes were an amazing shade of green, with intriguing flecks of yellow, blue and grey mixed in. Eyes he could lose himself in, if he wasn't careful.
    "Rey?" she prompted again when he failed to answer.
    He coughed, drew away from her, and reached for the portfolio he had given her earlier. He pulled out the sketches he had done of the interiors with the proposed alterations, laid them next to the blueprints, and explained.
    Bianca heard what he was saying, but was afraid she wasn't listening very well to his technical explanations. She was too interested in the warmth that seemed to pour off his body as he unintentionally leaned against her and the way his large hands swept over the blueprints and the sketches. He moved his hands with confidence, but also with passion and animation as he detailed the changes. His voice, slightly husky and low, created a response in her she would rather not have.
    As he paused to allow Eduardo to comment, she pulled away from him slightly, and tried to really focus on the plans. When she did so, she realized not only how much care he had put into them, but how much of himself. He had given it that something extra the architect had failed to find with his designs.
    Rey had brought the place to life with changes that were filled with passion and an artist’s eye for color and space.
    She picked up one of Rey's sketches of the interior and ran her hand over it, imagining how the restaurant would look. Recognizing that what he had done was more innovative and more thoughtful than what the architect had delivered to them. Clipped to the back of the sketch was a photo copied from a book on Cuba with notes in strong masculine handwriting. She noted how he had taken the architectural design from the building and updated it.
    "I borrowed the book from Maya's dad. He has a whole bunch of books on Cuba. I thought that since you wanted to call the restaurant Havana Nueva and the architect had tried to recreate that feel. . ."
    He trailed off, seemingly uncomfortable with his rambling, but Bianca reassured him by laying a hand on his forearm and urging him to go on.
    "What you did looks great."
    "It's very very nice, Rey," Eduardo chimed in, and Rey continued with his explanation, finishing with the plans for the bar.
    "This area looks a lot like the one in the old Floridita bar in Cuba," he said and Eduardo immediately jumped in.
    "My uncle had someone try to replicate the bar when he first opened here. That's why they're so similar," he said.
    Rey smiled and that boyish dimple transformed his very masculine features and made him look much younger and not as intense as he had been during his explanations.
    "I knew it looked familiar yesterday when I first saw it, but it wasn't until I was going through the books a few nights ago that I ran across a photo of the bar," Rey said.
    He yanked out the sketch and photo from his portfolio which showed the bar in Old Havana and the minor changes which would be necessary to complete the transformation of this bar area to an updated version in keeping with the rest of the theme of the restaurant.
    "That is if you're interested in going ahead with me as the contractor for the project," he said almost uncertainly, his gaze locking with hers.
    Bianca would be hard pressed to deny her interest and not just in the plans. She had found him physically attractive the other day and in her lusty dreams. The hidden facets he was showing her with his plans made him even more dangerous. Her mother's voice warned her to run again, but she was just too damned intrigued to listen.
    "I'm. . . we're interested. Right, Eduardo?"
    She looked over at her partner, who had a broad excited smile on his face. She sensed that he knew just how much Rey affected her and was obviously pleased by it as well as the plans.
    "I think all of us are going to have a really great time getting this place open," Eduardo said.
    Bianca turned her attention back toward Rey and smiled. "Yes, I think we will.