Chapter 42

▪️Ace▪️

Emily might have surprised him with her unbridled passion in bed, but Ace wasn’t fooled. No way would Emily be so forgiving to discover he’d been Taylor Croft's lover. She might believe fucking the boss was a habit of Ace's.

Ace pinched the bridge of his nose as if it would keep the painful memories from bursting free. One of Taylor's acquaintances had joined them on the yacht for three days, for business and pleasure. The woman’s PA, a Harvard graduate who came to breakfast wearing a tie, for fuck’s sake, had sneered at Ace after seeing him exiting Taylor's cabin early one morning, clad only in his boxers.

“How does it feel to be a whore?”

Cruel as those words had been, they’d triggered a reassessment of his life. He supposed he owed the man a thank-you for opening his eyes, because it had led him here—to the brink of something life-changing. A path he couldn’t have predicted in his wildest dreams, but one he needed to keep following to discov