Page 81 of One Quick Obsession

“I don’t know, stayed with each other through a fire and a kidnapping sounds pretty romantic,” the paramedic said, and I narrowed my gaze at her.

The other woman just winked. “If you keep the oxygen mask on, I promise I’ll stop with the commentary.” And then she was sliding an IV into my arm, and Hudson rubbed the back of his knuckles on my cheek.

“You scared the hell out of me. But I love you, Scarlett Blair. And from now on, you don’t sleep outside my bed. Those are the rules. Because I swear to God, I’m never going to let anyone hurt you again.”

I scowled at him, before slowly lowering the mask despite the paramedic’s glare.

“Fine. We can sleep in our bed together from now on. But I love you too. Jerk. You don’t need to growl at me all the time.”

“I think I do. Mask on.”

I rolled my eyes and did as I was told, as my entire body hurt.

Ronin had almost killed the both of us. Had almost killed Flynn and maybe Luna from what I could see. I wasn’t sure how the timeline had played out, but I did know that the people I cared about most in the world had nearly died because of a man’s anger and addictiveness.

But as Hudson held me close, and we made our way to the hospital, I leaned into him, knowing that I wasn’t ever going to let him go.

I had made many mistakes in my life, and Hudson Cage wasn’t one of them.

And now, once we were cleaned up, stitched up, and healed, we had the rest of our lives to figure out what was next.

And I for one had a feeling nothing was going to be normal about this anytime soon, or ever.

And I didn’t truly mind. Not with Hudson Cage holding me, and both of us knowing that we could save each other. Even if I knew he would do his best to make sure nothing like this happened again. Hudson was mine. And I was finally able to give in.

I let him hold me, and knew it was only the beginning.

Chapter Nineteen

Hudson

Sometime later

I gripped Scarlett’s hips, squeezing tightly as I thrust, sweat slicking down my back.

“That’s it. Take me. Take all of me.”

“Hudson.”

“You’re almost there. Almost there.” I leaned forward and slid my fingers over her clit as she let out a moan, grinding herself into me.

Lips twitching, I leaned back and smacked her on the ass.

“Needy, aren’t you?”

“I swear to God if you don’t let me come soon, Hudson Cage, I’m going to scream.”

“We both know you’re going to scream anyway. And I let you come right before I started fucking you. I thought we were doing okay.”

“You’re ridiculous.”

“That is true.”

I pulled back, before slamming hard into her again, and we both let out a groan. And then we were moving, and there were no more thoughts.

I’d never been the person to laugh or even think about laughing during sex like this. That wasn’t really what I had thought we needed.

It wasn’t what I thought I deserved. Happiness? Hell no. A connection with someone where it felt like we could take on anyone? Never.