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I don’t just love teaching yoga for the extra paycheck and sense of security it helps me maintain. I love it for the way it clears my mind and strengthens my soul. Teaching even helps center me. I’m more focused after a class. More relaxed. Those two weeks without my classes, and what they do for me, suck. But not this year.
This year, I’m thinking about Hudson’s sunroom and how much I’m looking forward to bringing my mat in there in the mornings. I’m thinking about long, late nights in bed with him and lazy mornings together. Christmas has never been high on my list of priorities. Brandon and I never made a big deal out of it before, and it’s never bothered me. But I think this year will be different.
It’ll be the first year I make new traditions.
“What’s got you smiling like that, sunshine?” Hudson asks as I clean my last mat of the night.
“Nothing,” I tell him coyly, checking quickly to see who’s around and am pleasantly surprised to find the gym completely empty. “Well, nothing I want to talk about here.” I lift up on my toes and kiss his lips, savoring the taste of him.
“You almost ready?” His hand slips to my lower back, resting on the bare skin just above my yoga pants, and my blood heats under his touch.
I nod, unable to speak, and the cocky grin stretching across his face holds delicious promises.
“Get a room,” Cade yells with a laugh.
“Sorry.” I blush, mortified.
“Ignore him, Mads. He’s just mad he can’t tell meno girlsanymore.” Hudson puffs up his chest like a proud peacock before I smack his pec.
“I’m a woman, not a girl. And I better be the only one.” I smile sweetly but with a little threat.
Cade smacks Hud’s back. “She told you.”
“Whatever. Like my sister doesn’t keep your balls in her Chanel bag,” Hudson chuckles.
With a devious glint in his eyes, Cade smirks. “Oh, your sister can do anything she wants with my balls. I have no complaints.”
“Jesus Christ, man. Gross.Fuck.What the hell?” Hud pinches his lips together, and Cade and I crack up.
“Oh my God. You two are ridiculous.” I put away the cleaning solution and grab my bag from the locker room. “I’m ready.”
Cade shuts off the lights, and the three of us walk out together, expecting an empty parking lot, not the ambush we walk into.
As soon as we step out of the building, a camera is shoved in our faces. A reporter stands next to the camera man. And Spider Reynolds, the creep Hudson almost fought at Kingdom weeks ago, is with them, surrounded by a bunch of his team.
“What the hell is going on here?” Cade demands, vibrating with anger.
“Go inside, Madison.” Hudson steps in front of me with Cade sliding next to him to block me from these men.
“Yeah, that’s right. You wouldn’t want your woman to see what a pussy you really are, King.”
I don’t move.
“This is private property, and I want you off it now before I call the cops,” Cade threatens. But Reynolds continues eyeing up Hudson.
“I bet you feel like a tough guy now, huh, King. You think you’re a killer.” I fist the back of Hudson’s hoodie and look around him as Spider continues, “That you’re untouchable. You still too fucking scared to fight me? Or did your balls finally drop after killing a worthless fighter like McGuire?”
Hudson’s body is rigid as Reynolds gets in his face.
“You know, when your girl wants to fuck a real man, she imagines it’smefucking her, King. I can get the job done in all the ways you never will.” He pushes Hudson’s chest, and I try to sidestep Hud to see what else is going on, but he and Cade move closer together.
“He’s twice the fighter you’ll ever be, Reynolds. Now, you’ve said your peace. Get the fuck off my property,” Cade threatens.
“If your boy is twice the fighter I am, then he’ll fight me like a man instead of hiding behind his family’s money and his coach’s name.”
“You wanna talk big. You want this fight because you say you wanna prove you’re better than me? That I’m just a name with a trust fund? Just wanna prove something, right? And this isn’t about the money, is it? It’s about showing the world that I’m a joke.” Hudson takes a step forward, and I drop my hold on him. “Fine. You name the time and the place, and I’ll fight you.”
Reynolds smiles, thinking he’s won, but I can tell from Hudson’s stance, something else is going on here.
