Secure Love (Wet & Wild 3)

Then, he could buy her a much better engagement ring along down the road.

“What do you mean, Ash?” Kallie asked.

“What I’m trying to say is—”

“Ashly Worthington?”

He felt his stomach roll with nausea as Kallie’s eyes widened. How the fuck was this woman in Bali? How the absolute fucking hell was this decrepit, sorry excuse for a woman in fucking Indonesia!?

“What in the world are you doing here?”

He watched Kallie’s expression fade. He felt the moment being ripped from him. The romantic moonlight on the terrace became yet another nuisance as his mind began to swirl. This was a private fucking terrace. How the hell was someone like her on the damn thing?

How the hell did Sasha fucking Benson find him?

And Ash felt like throwing up when Kallie took a step away from him.

Chapter 18

Kallie

Kallie’s mind came to a grinding halt. She had no idea what Ash was up to tonight, but her stomach dropped the second she saw Sasha walk out onto the terrace. She came right up to Ash and all of his words fell to the back of her mind. She had no idea what he was saying. She couldn’t move her lips to warn him of who was behind him. All she could do was stand there and stare as her grating voice pierced through their moment.

A moment Kallie was giving into the more she stood there with him in the light of the moon.

“What are you doing here?”

Kallie

watched the shock roll over Ash’s face. What the hell was this woman doing here? Was this what Ash was doing? Hiring her to get help feathering a love nest for him and Sasha? She felt sicker than she’d ever felt in her life. She could’ve sworn this trip was going better than she thought. That she and Ash were finally growing closer and learning more about each other. She’d just convinced herself that things could be okay between them. That something might be able to blossom between her and Ash. She’d adored her time in Bali with him. The taco hut and the surf shops and walking the marketplaces.

In another life, she could see herself in a place like that.

Possibly even living with him in it.

Sasha stepped up beside Ash before she gave Kallie a nasty look. She stepped directly in front of her and craned her neck to look up at the man. Kallie shook her head and took a step back. She wanted to leave. To get out of there and get back to the hotel. But she was done with this bitch trolloping all over her time with Ash.

It was time she grew a damn backbone.

“I’ve been trying to call you since my birthday,” Sasha said. “Did you not have a good time?”

“No, I didn’t,” Ash said.

“Oh, come on. You know kissing me threw you back to all of those wonderful memories of us.”

“No, it didn’t,” he said.

“Well, thanks to you I had a fabulous time on my birthday. You never cease to put a smile on my face, Ashly Worthington.”

“I’m sure,” Ash said curtly.

“Excuse me?” Kallie asked.

She tapped Sasha on the shoulder and watched the woman shrug her off. So Kallie gripped her arm and ripped her around.

“What in the—? Ash, can’t you do something about this woman?” Sasha asked.

“What do you want?” Kallie asked.