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life remained exactly that: private.
    Which is probably the reason I never realized Angel was his wife.
    Not that it would have mattered if he had. Whatever had been between the two of them was over.
    “Separated,” she said stiffly.
    The choke hold about Gabriel’s throat eased slightly. “But you aren’t divorced?”
    “Hoping to be.”
    He scowled. “What the hell does that mean?”
    “It means Clive isn’t as…amenable to the idea as I am,” she answered guardedly.
    “You’re fighting over who gets custody of the poodle?” he taunted.
    The moment of truth had arrived, Angel realized. The moment when she either told Gabriel why she had come here, to him specifically, or she continued to fight Clive on her own.
    She was tired, so very tired, of trying to fight this battle alone.
    She was also heartsick. In a way that was threatening to crush her.
    “Angel?”
    Tears stung her eyes at once again hearing the name that had been lost to her for so long. A familiarity that even allowed her to release a little of the self-pity she had never indulged in the past, or since.
    Gabriel had once entered her life like a whirlwind, sweeping her off her feet, before leaving as abruptly as he had arrived. Angel had been left in a vacuum to pick up the pieces of her life and carry on without him. Which she had done, in the only way available to her at the time.
    With hindsight, it had been the wrong way, but she hadn’t known that until it was too late to do anything but persevere with the choices she had made.
    Choices which were now tearing her apart.
    She raised her chin and looked directly into Gabriel’s dark green eyes. “We don’t have a dog. We do, however, have a son. A darling little boy Clive feels no qualms about using in order to make me do what he wants.”
    Gabriel felt as if someone had just punched him hard in the chest, robbing him of breath. Not only was Angel married, but she had a son. He couldn’t… It was… God!
    He might have tried not to think about Angel as the years passed, but even when he had allowed his thoughts to linger on her, he had never imagined her as someone else’s wife, and certainly not as a mother.
    Stupid, he realized now. Angel was a beautiful and desirable woman. The same woman who had gone up in flames in his arms whenever they were together. Any man would want her. To claim all that fire and passion as his own.
    The fact that she had come here now in order to seek Gabriel’s help in what appeared to be her acrimonious divorce was beyond comprehension. She couldn’t seriously think he would ever want to become involved.
    He gave a firm shake of his head. “Knight Security deals in personal and professional security, not domestic disputes. If it’s any help.” His lips thinned. “It’s my experience men as powerful as Clive Sinclair like to assert that power with physical conquests outside their marriage. If you want evidence against your husband in order to attain a divorce, then I suggest you go to a detective agency.”
    “This job isn’t for a detective agency or for Knight Security. It’s for you alone.”
    “Me?” he scoffed.
    Angel nodded. “It’s time for you to come out from behind that desk, Gabriel.”
    He scowled darkly. “I’ll decide whether or not I ever do that, and becoming embroiled in your messy divorce certainly isn’t reason enough for me to even consider it.”
    “If you won’t do it for me, then do it for Daniel.”
    “Who the fuck is Daniel?”
    “Your son.”
    What the…!

Chapter 2

    “My seven-year-old son Daniel is also your son, Gabriel.”
    Why did Angel keep saying that? How could Angel’s son be his son too?
    There was only one way that was possible. She would have to have been pregnant when she left him eight years ago.
    If that was true—
    Angel backed up several steps as Gabriel stood up to cross to her in forceful strides.
    His expression was fiercely accusing as he grasped her painfully by the tops of her arms.