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“Thank you,” I reply. “This all looks great.”
“Can I get you any—”
“We’re good, thanks.”
She hesitates before hurrying away.
“She was scared of me,” Ace grunts.
“A lot of people are scared of you.” I slide my hand along his jaw and force him to look at me.
“Are you scared of me?”
I inhale a shaky breath, choosing my next words carefully. “I know you’ll never hurt me, but I’d be lying if I said that sometimes your temper doesn’t scare me.” His eyes shutter. “Hey,” I say. “I’m just scared that one day all the anger and pain you feel will get the better of you... and that I’ll lose you.”
“I don’t fucking deserve you. I have nothing to give you. I can’t even afford to take you out, for fuck’s sake.”
“I don’t need any of that, Ace. I only need you.”
He doesn’t argue, but I can see the doubt in his eyes. But that’s Ace’s war to fight. I can’t make him believe he’s worthy, I can only try to show him.
“I’m probably way off base about Michaela anyway,” I say, trying to lighten the mood. “She’s crazy, but she’s not stalker-level crazy.”
Ace throws down his silverware and sits back against the booth. “It was her,” he says icily.
“What, how can you be sure?”
“I remember now. I woke up in the pool house in a shit ton of pain. I was hungover, my body was broken, and all I wanted was you. She turned up, looking for something James wanted. They were all busy preparing for the party.”
My stomach sinks and I push my plate of food away. “Did the two of you—”
“What?” His face pales. “No, fuck no, Remi. I wouldn’t touch her if she was the last fucking girl on Earth.”
“Okay,” I murmur, relief spreading through me. I’m sure I’ll forgive a lot where Ace is concerned, but I wouldn’t be able to forgive him for that.
“I told her to fuck off, but she wouldn’t leave, kept insisting she only needed to grab whatever the fuck James needed.”
“She did it?” I gasp, hardly able to believe it.
Michaela is a bitch, no two ways about it.
But playing a sex tape at my birthday party... I can’t believe another girl would ever do that.
“I’m going to fucking kill her.” Anger pulses through me like wildfire, and I leap up.
“Whoa, there, Princess.” Ace grasps me around the waist, pulling me down. “She’ll get what’s coming to her.”
“Yeah, and how’s that?”
He looks me dead in the eye and says, “Because she messed with a Jagger, and nobody hurts what’s mine and gets away with it.”
Chapter Ten
Ace
Thoughts of that bitch ruin what should be a nice breakfast with Remi. But now I’ve remembered her trying to get into the pool house that morning, the more convinced I am that she’s the one who stole the memory card and attempted to make Remi’s life even harder than it already is.
But why?
