Was the grass really greener for Ambrose Kerr?

‘I’ve never told a living soul any of that before…’ Emilie stared up at Ambrose, as what he had told her reverberated in her mind. She hadn’t really taken it all in — where on earth could he have come from to have lived like that? He ran his hand through his thick black hair in an angry gesture. ‘God knows why I blurted it out to you. I wonder if you realise…I’ve given you a weapon that could destroy me…&rsqo;