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Lex and I go back into the living room where Hudson and Kyle and engaged in a deep conversation about some tech project that Kyle is working on.
Hudson and I take the table and chairs while Lex and Kyle take the couch before we all dig into the food.
I barely eat, curiously watching Hudson as he talks away behaving as if he knows Lex and Kyle for years. He’s so different and I feel confused about him yet again. He’s talking, laughing which is so bizarre to watch and Lex and Kyle both seem thrilled by him and what he has to say.
Lex who is so hard to please is actually blushing when Hudson asks her about her plans for acting.
Even I can’t deny his strange allure. He’s like a bright, raging fire and we’re the moths, deeply engrossed in his blazing flames.Fuck.
His smooth voice is almost like a glassy surface with a slightly husky edge and his easy confidence makes everyone want a part of him, yet it feels so unattainable at the same time.
“So, you have no plans to take over your family’s amazing empire?” Kyle smiles and shakes his head. “I would do anything to be rolling in billions.”
Hudson shrugs. “I don’t have any attachment to money. Sure it’s cool to have, but it’s not something that interests me.”
“What interests you?” Lex asks.
“Many things.” Hudson’s gaze meets mine and I swallow my noodles without managing to choke.
As the conversation easily shifts from one topic to another, Lex and Kyle both start to get up simultaneously like we can’t see what they’re doing and excuse themselves, before leaving the living room.
There’s a long moment of silence until I wake up from my chair and take some of the leftovers to the kitchen.
Hudson follows behind silently as I put the food away into the fridge and when I turn around, he’s standing close. My face is met with his chest and broad shoulder.Too close. Side note, I hate being this fucking short because I have to look up into his intimidating eyes. I breathe in his warm, spicy cologne that makes my legs feel slightly numb.
“I am sorry for the way things ended during Spring Break and I really want to see you again,” he says, reaching over and circling my wrist with his long, warm fingers.
Just a simple touch sends my heart racing a million miles as I stare up into his green eyes.
I remember Stella’s words and the weird phone call I got after about how I am just another victim of his. But I decide not to bring those two things up because some part of me doesn’t want to accept them.
“I don’t think we should get back together.”
His green eyes search mine. “I refuse to believe that we can’t work things out.”
“I don’t think you really want to be with me,” I tell him, my voice is steady.
“I love you. I told you I love you. I don’t know what else to tell you,” he says. His words and voice are so sincere, that I almost start to think that the whole ordeal at Spring Break was in my head.
“If you love me then you wouldn’t have acted like a maniac last week, telling me that you’ll never let me leave and literally hurting me when you grabbed my hand.” My voice cracks and I feel the tension in my chest grow. “That’s not how you treat someone if you love them.”
There’s a twitch in his jaw and his eyes are dark and unreadable, but he just pulls me closer, pressing his body against mine as he embraces me. “I’m sorry, okay? It won’t happen again. I was high and drunk and I just got angry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m going to get my shit together and be a better person. I’m sorry that I put you through that.”
I let myself sink into him, against his firm chest, allowing my heart to cave in again. I feel so stupid, yet better at the same time that I can hold him again. My mind eases from the day as a stray tear escapes my eye. And I know that I love him too and that some part of me just won’t let get of him. My fingers knot in the soft material of his t-shirt as I let myself cry and Hudson runs his fingers against my hair.I love him.
