Recent reunion meetings between Mexican actress Salma Hayek and French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault may have as much to do with revenge as with reconciliation, according to sources close to the couple.

The two reportedly feel “furious” and “betrayed” over reports that a short story in Cervantes Prize-winning Carlos Fuente’s upcoming book “Happy Families” is actually a thinly veiled “novel a clef” about their own affair -– and allege that parts of the story were lifted word-for-word straight from Hayek’s own personal diaries.

Back in July the high-profile couple, who have a child together, ended their engagement, with Hayek’s representatives releasing the statement: “"We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault has been canceled. There will be no further comment."

But tongues began wagging again when the couple recently attended a birthday party for Stevie Wonder’s 7 year-old son Kailand Morris with their 11-month-old daughter Valentina.

According to reports, Pinault and Hayek stayed close to each other throughout the party, whispered to each other, and seemed very much at ease within one another’s presences. A source told People magazine: "She stayed by his side almost the whole time. It was so cute – Francois-Henri was carrying the baby, smiling, and playing with her. He obviously adores Valentina."

But others at the party say the two were not reuniting but were instead plotting a legal strategy against Fuentes for a story entitled “The Secret Marriage” that appears to duplicate words from Hayek’s hand-written diaries virtually word for word. The Fuentes’ book is scheduled to be released to the American public on Sept. 30.

According to sources, particularly damning are the final words of the Fuentes story in question, which also appear on the last page of Hayek’s diary:

“It was a mistake for us to meet.
Suspension points…
Forget it…”

But Hayek’s legal advisors are also focusing on a key paragraph that appears on Page 227 of the upcoming book in which the story’s lead character, Lavinia, disparages the “first class section of Air France,” “suites at the Ritz” and “the table settings at El Bodegon.”

Reads the story: “Truffles began to make me itch, pheasants left me cross-eyed, lobsters grabbed at my hands to pull me back to the ocean floor … Love can suffocate us. It’s like eating candy all the time. You have to give tedium its due.”

“These are words that were taken directly from my own private diaries,” the distraught Hayek has confided to several close friends.

The Fuentes story goes on to conclude that individuals have to be grateful for the boring moments in a relationship and stop anticipating the extraordinary -- lest they destroy it.

How Fuentes could have possibly gained access to the actress’s personal diaries remains a mystery, however. “I had left my diary in the toilet,” Hayek told one intimate friend. “And he must have took it from there.”

Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as the author of numerous screenplays, dramas, and short stories; however, Fuentes is best known for his novels, which use complex and innovative narrative techniques to probe Mexican history. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Cervantes Prize in 1987. Fuentes' major works include: Where the Air is Clearer (1958); The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962); A Change of Skin (1967); Terra Nostra (1975); The Hydra Head (1978); The Old Gringo (1985); and The Campaign (1990).

Widely considered to be the first Mexican actress to become a Hollywood movie star since Dolores Del Rio, Salma Hayek is known for bringing a fiery presence and striking, dark-eyed beauty to the screen. A soap star in her native Mexico, Hayek risked her entire career to come to L.A., where she struggled to be taken seriously. Her discovery by director Robert Rodriguez, who cast her in his 1995 film Desperado, gave Hayek her breakthrough, and she subsequently gained a reputation as one of Hollywood's sexiest and busiest actresses.

The daughter of a Spanish mother and Lebanese father, Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on September 2, 1966. Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to a Louisiana boarding school at the age of 12. After getting into trouble for terrorizing the nuns, Hayek returned to Mexico, but she was eventually sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17.

In the spring of 2006, The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas displayed sixteen portrait paintings by muralist George Yepes of Hayek as Aztec goddess Itzapapalotl.

In April 2007 Hayek finalized negotiations with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin themed film production company, Ventanazul. The following month she signed a two year deal with ABC to develop projects for the network through her production company, Ventanarosa. She is developing and producing La Banda, a Spanish-language romantic comedy set in Mexico, written by Issa Lopez.

Hayek is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Prior to her relationship with Pinault, she dated actor Edward Norton between 1999 and 2003, and then Josh Lucas in 2003. She has friends in Los Angeles and Mexico and is best friends with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz. The two co-starred in the 2006 film “Bandidas.” Hayek studied at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Among her other current projects, she is currently excutive producer of ABC’s smash hit “Ugly Betty,” which stars America Ferrara, Eric Mabius, Alan Dale, Tony Plana, Ana Ortiz and Vanessa Williams.