Ah, yes, Richard. <\/p>\n
Gabriela was surprised that an American was on her doorstep. <\/span>There was no doubt\u2014his tall frame, his strong features, and his casual, arrogant stance. <\/span>For a moment, she thought it might be one of her husband\u2019s coworkers recently arrived from the States, but she rejected the idea immediately. <\/span>Roberto would have warned her. <\/span>Besides, his coworkers never looked like the man standing a couple of feet before her. <\/span>He was lean, yet muscular, and he was quite handsome, she thought, inspecting him casually with an artist\u2019s eye for beauty. <\/span>His light brown hair fell carelessly over a wide forehead; a straight, aquiline nose preceded a full mouth, framed by a strong jaw-line; and the man had remarkable eyes of gray-blue. <\/span>Quite remarkable indeed, she thought. <\/span>She must remember to use them in her illustrations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah, yes, Richard. Gabriela was surprised that an American was on her doorstep. There was no doubt\u2014his tall frame, his strong features, and his casual, arrogant stance. For a moment, she thought it might be one of her husband\u2019s coworkers recently arrived from the States, but she rejected the idea immediately. Roberto would have warned … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-novel","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}