Page 29 of Ace of Spades

“See those two dudes over there?” Nate said, breaking into her thoughts.

She followed his gaze, spying two oversized men standing at the bottom of stairs leading up to a yacht bigger than the one they’d just walked by. “Bodyguards?”

“Yeah. And they’re carrying.”

“Wonder who the yacht belongs to?” She scanned the deck. There wasn’t anyone moving about, but there was a helicopter sitting on a landing pad. “Someone famous, or there’d be no need for the muscle.” Both guards’ attention was focused on them as they approached.

“Good name for it,” Nate said.

She smiled at seeingEscapein script across the back. “I could definitely escape in that.”

Nate nodded to the guards as they walked past. Neither responded, only watched them through mirrored sunglasses. He glanced at her. “Would you like having that kind of money?”

“Not even. Sure, I’d love to have enough money to open a home for girls, but the kind to buy a yacht like that? It would be too much of a burden. I’m just a simple girl, Nate. I don’t need much.” She grinned. “Well, maybe enough to buy a few more pairs of Jimmy Choos, butI’ll get there. Anyway, I just want someone—” She snapped her mouth closed. She’d almost said she just wanted someone—namely him—to love her the way Alex and Court loved their wives. Someone she could trust enough to hand him her heart.

“I’m not that man, tiger,” Nate said, letting go of her hand.

How had he known what she’d been about to say? She stood on the middle of the pier, watching him walk away.

“I think you could be if you’d only let yourself believe,” she whispered to his retreating back.