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“Which is why I know what you’ll do if I show up.” Kayleigh heard voices in the outer office and looked toward the doorway just as Alexander Remington stepped into view. “Uh, Nessa, I have to go. Seriously. I’ll call you later.”
Before Janessa could say anything, Kayleigh hung up. She got to her feet and moved around the desk as Alexander stepped into her office.
He was a very distinguished man with a headful of silver hair and a piercing blue gaze. That day, he wore a dark blue suit with a white shirt and a blue plaid tie. His impeccable appearance reminded her of Hudson. Just like everything else did.
“Kayleigh, good to see you again,” Alexander said as he held out his hand.
“You, too.” She shook his hand, trying not to worry about why he was there. “To what do we owe the pleasure?”
In all honesty, she’d thought he’d make an appearance back when the situation regarding the thefts and the fire was being resolved. He’d spoken to her several times on the phone, but he hadn’t shown up. So what he was doing at the resort now was anyone’s guess.
Alexander regarded her for a long moment, and Kayleigh had to fight the urge to shift under his gaze. “I need to know what’s broken my boy.”
Of all the things she’d expected him to say, that wasn’t it.
Frowning, she said, “Your boy?”
She had no idea what he was talking about. She’d had nothing to do with his sons, so how on earth would she have broken them? Whatever that even meant.
“Hudson.”
The conversation was making her brain cramp as she tried to piece together what he was trying to say. “Hudson is your… boy?”
“My son. He’s my son.”
And just like that, the missing pieces of the puzzle she hadn’t even known she was working on snapped into place. “Hudson’s your son?”
“Yes,” Alexander said with a nod.
Kayleigh stared at the man, cataloguing all the ways he and Hudson looked alike, and wondering how she’d missed the similarities.
After she’d done that, she realized she was getting a glimpse of what Hudson would look like in thirty or forty years. Her heart ached with the knowledge that Hudson was Alexander’s son, and she had to swallow hard against the emotion that rose up inside her.
“Does heknowthat he’s your son?”
Alexander’s brow furrowed as he frowned at her. “Of course he does. Why?”
“He never said anything.”
“We’ve never made our relationship public.”
Kayleigh wondered if that had been Hudson’s decision, or if Alexander had forced it on him. It hurt a bit that Hudson hadn’t confided that in her, but their… she hesitated to call it a relationship… maybe friendship?... had just begun. If she hadn’t cut things off like she had, it was possible that he would have revealed his relationship to Alexander.
“I’m here as Hudson’s father, not his boss, to figure out what’s happened and see how I can fix things for him.”
“Would you like to have a seat?” Kayleigh asked as she gestured to the table. It felt like a better place to sit for a discussion that was personal and not work related. As Alexander took a seat, she said, “Would you like a cup of coffee?”
“Do you have decaf?”
“Yes.” She went to the coffee machine and began to prepare a cup for him. “Cream or sugar?”
“Both,” he said. “But if Candace asks, I drank it black.”
Kayleigh gave a huff of laughter as she got the cream from the small fridge and carried it to the table with the sugar. Once she had two cups of coffee, she took them to the table and sat down across from Alexander, wondering if her job might be on the line, even if he was technically there as Hudson’s father.
“So… what do you know about what’s happened with Hudson?” Alexander asked as he dumped two spoonfuls of sugar into his coffee.
“Possibly… everything?”
