Defying the Boss

The Ashford Brothers, Book 3

By: Leslie North

Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz, Tor Thom

The Hating Game meets Ticket to Paradise—if the grumpy cruise ship billionaire you drunkenly married also happens to be your boss… and your new co-parent.

For one reckless, rum-soaked night, I decide to let my hair down.

I wake up married.

To my boss.

Logan Ashford is a cruise ship magnate with a spotless reputation, a lethal jawline, and an ego bigger than his floating palace. Cold. Controlled. Allergic to chaos.

I'm the ship's daycare worker. Too sunny. Too opinionated. Too unimpressed by his cufflinks and control issues.

And somehow now Admiral Grump's wife.

The plan is simple: keep it quiet, annul it fast, and move on.

Except his six-year-old son announces our marriage to the entire ship like a human TikTok gone viral.

Now the press is circling, the crew is whispering, and nothing says "family-friendly brand disaster" like secretly marrying an employee.

So Logan proposes a deal. Smile for the guests. Hold hands for the press. Pretend our late-night arguments aren't charged with heat.

The marriage is fake.

The arrangement is temporary.

And falling for my grumpy, infuriatingly attractive husband is absolutely not part of the plan.

…Right?

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