Ace's Wild: A Bad Boy Sports Romance (The Beasts of Baseball Book 2) by Alice Ward

Author:Alice Ward [Ward, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sports romance, steamy sex, cocky bad boy, big city new york, hot guys, baseball, alpha
Publisher: Alice Ward
Published: 2016-10-26T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Holly

I rubbed lotion into my skin as I watched all the bikini-clad school girls bouncing around me. “Were we ever that young?” I asked Whitney.

She slid her sunglasses from her eyes to the tip of her nose and lifted her head to take in the chaos that surrounded us. “Yes. I just hope we weren’t ever that stupid.”

Whitney wasn’t, that was true. I had been stupid my entire life, mainly my choices in men.

“You either,” she said sternly, giving me a tight glare from above her shaded lenses. I loved how she could read my thoughts. We’d been friends for so long it was almost as if she knew me better than I knew myself.

I looked around the hotel pool, scoping out all the hot young girls that were now staying there. I knew that as soon as they were gone, another slew would arrive, and then another after that. “How many of these girls do you think Ace will sleep with before he gets home?” I asked.

“How many do you think?”

I looked around, started to count, and then threw up my hands. “All of them.”

“Bingo.” She waited a moment before adding, “So, how are you planning on handling this?” I knew what she was asking. What was I going to do with Ace?

“I’ll just tell him the truth.”

The thought of letting Ace Newman go sickened me. He was so exciting, so passionate, and the sex, holy shit, the sex was like a religious experience. But no matter how much I wanted him to change, he wouldn’t. I couldn’t change him, and I needed more from a relationship that what he was able to give me. Holding on would just hurt us both.

“You’re doing the right thing,” she assured me.

There were things I hadn’t told her; things I wasn’t sure I’d ever tell her. Ace was a troubled man, paralyzed at times with fear, riddled with pain, and had a constant battering in his own head about failure and an inability to please his father. I related to him, and that was a strong pull towards him, but I didn’t want to share Ace’s personal life tragedies without his consent, even if it would make my best friend understand why I loved him.

“Quit it,” she hissed without even turning to look at me.

“Quit what?”

“Rationalizing why Ace Newman is lovable and deserves a chance.”

Yup. She knew me too well.

Ace was a toxin, but I still loved him. I just had to let him go. It was time for one of us to grow up.

“Excuse me?” A tall, slender girl with light blonde hair was standing at the edge of Whitney’s lounge chair blocking the sun.

“Yes?” Whitney sat up in her chair and pushed her sunglasses to the top of her head.

“Are you Whitney Harris?”

“Yes.”

“Engaged to Calvin Malone?”

She nodded.

Her two girlfriends behind her let out a squeal. “You’re so lucky,” the blonde girl announced.

“You’re Holly Summer, right?” one of the other girls asked.

“Yeah, I am.” It was the first time I’d been recognized outside of New York or Indiana.

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