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“Finn?”
“Finn,” she confirmed.
“But you and I?” I mumbled as she placed her hand on the doorframe.
“Oh, Hudson. You had my heart from the moment I met you. Trust me in that matter. Now, are you going to keep using these delay techniques?” she countered, letting go of the doorframe as she took in a deep breath to force herself to move forward, knowing I would be naked in a few mere moments.
“Summer!” I yelled as she rounded the corner. I quickly popped my head around the doorframe and Summer caught her balance between the first and second step. I couldn’t help it. I was heading to the shower and the thought would plague. “Is your pussy really bare under that skirt?” I mouthed in a bare whisper.
I watched as she placed her index finger straight in her mouth and sucked hard, her gaze never dropping from mine as a blush travelled up from her neck to her cheeks. The slight nod and massive grin as she pulled her finger out with a pop made the outline of my hard cock completely visible to her eye.
Two could play at that game.I brushed my handaccidentallydown my front as Summer licked her lips.
“I’ll see you after my shower, then.”
* * *
Imade sure I took my time in the shower, hoping Summer was squirming away, waiting for me by the time I got downstairs. She’d got me all hot under the collar and I wasn’t scared to throw it back tenfold at her, even if a game of who could keep the ball in the air longer was all I had left with her. It was more than I deserved, although Summer seemed adamant that our future wasn’t over, and this was just a slight rocky bump in the road.
I saw this as a giant crash in my world, but then I knew people could have different outlooks on life. I had to trust Summer’s gut and what she felt meant there was hope. I had called her my ko’u aloha. My love. I’d been brought up to know that those words were precious and sacred; a language that you only shared for the woman who’d stolen your heart. The woman you wanted for the rest of your life. I knew when I’d spoken, it was Summer or no one else. I just didn’t expect my past to knock me flying and evaluate our relationship so fast.
No matter what happened, my heart could love only one; hers.
“Sit,” she announced sternly the moment she saw me, and I couldn’t help but swallow the gulp harshly in my throat. Secretly inside I was jumping for joy. I saw fire, which meant she wanted to fight. If she wanted to fight with me, then I’d let her because it showed her passion was firmly set in my direction and hadn’t waned. “Now, we can talk.”
Summer walked around the table and trailed her nails on the wood as she passed me in her wake. She had caught me in her trap and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I thought she was going to pull the chair out in front of me and take a perch, but she never hesitated when she stood in front of me and cocked her head to the side.
“Summer?” I questioned.
“I like games when I win. Now you can feel the torture whilst I enjoy watching you try to keep your emotions in check,” she said as she wrapped her legs around mine and straddled my waist, enjoying the hitch of my breath as I immediately cradled her ass and rocked her forward. “I can see every emotion plastered across your face. You think you’re invisible, Hudson, but to me you’re a man who bears the world’s weight right here.” She pointed to my eyes, and I gulped. “Those eyes speak of truth, sincerity, pain, and love. Let me tell you what you don’t know about Paul because Hudson, our love doesn’t deserve to be hidden away because of an emotion that shouldn’t exist. A burden that isn’t yours to carry.”
“Okay.” I rubbed my fingers along her ass and watched her breath hitch. “Carry on.”
“You gave my mom precious time.” I dropped my fingers with those words as my eyes widened in confusion. Summer wrapped her arms around my neck in a tight grip and dipped her head, pressing a kiss on my pulse point that was darting out of my neck. “You pulled him from the water, restarted his heart and got him to safety. You did that. My aunt told my mom that.”
“I did?” I asked in confusion.
“My aunt called my mom immediately, and she made it just in time. It was secondary drowning, Hudson. You couldn’t have known…” she uttered, pulling me close. “My mom didn’t ring my dad in time, and I never got to see him. If anything, I should be angry with her. Not you.”
“But…”
“No buts. I only learned recently that this place… this beautiful place.” She choked back the tears, as my trembling hands reached up and wiped a fallen tear away. “This place was where Paul passed. I didn’t know it had anything to do with this area, but it makes me understand Mom’s insistence on living here. I feel closer to him. That day in the ocean, I’d never felt such freedom, Hudson. You did that.”
“I did nothing,” I replied, shrugging my shoulders.
“Baby, you freed me. You made me realize my demons don’t control me… yours don’t control you either.” She lifted my chin up and gazed into my eyes, the passion magnified in her eyes radiating straight back at me, her love fierce. “You Hudson are the strongest, most caring man in the world. You take people’s fears and make them disappear to dust. Now let me do that for you. Let me be the woman to heal you. The one person who fate brought to you to prove that happiness exists—no matter where it stems from.”
“I love you Summer, my ko’u aloha.”
“I love you too. Hudson. Always my ko’u aloha forever more.”
EPILOGUE
SUMMER
2 years later
I’d never been so nervous of a family getting together and clearing the air before, but after the last two years, a lot has changed. I wanted no secrets or risks between Hudson or I that could make us feel that our love wasn’t valid. We both were glad that we realized early on in our relationship that my brother’s death held a trigger for us both.
