Chapter 14 - Dash Bolton

Dash POV

As I stand in the middle of the room while everyone claps after my name was announced, I feel like a fucking fraud. I feel like I shouldn’t be here, because I might be a bachelor on paper, but I feel like I am taken, and until I have sex with Grace and manage to get her out of my system, I shouldn’t be accepting this award.

I smile and give a small wave at some of the familiar faces surrounding me. I keep looking around, trying to find the woman wearing the most astonishing dress I have ever seen, but I can’t find her. People start coming to me shaking my hand and congratulating me for not falling in love and not getting married. What a bullshit.

“Congratulations,” I hear a familiar voice behind me. I turn around to find Tara. I take a shaky breath as I look at her and she wraps her arms around my neck, pressing her new and improved breasts against my chest. I place both my hands on her hips and push her away softly. Her eyes scan mine and I smile politely.

“It’s been a lo