Chapter 101

Chapter 101

Brooklyn

I nearly spill my milk all over the hallway as I spin around to stare up at Aden.

"What are you..." he starts to ask.

"Shut up!" I whisper hastily, glancing back at the door. "They'll hear you!"

"They?" Aden raises an eyebrow and looks again at Hudson's door.

"Come on!" I hiss, throwing my shoulder against his side, trying to herd him towards my room before Hudson's door opens and he and his lover find us both standing there.

Aden chuckles at my wasted effort to get him to move-we both know I couldn't budge him an inch if he didn't want to go.

After a moment, though, he allows himself to be shepherded out of the hall and through my open door, which I press my back against to close.

I flinch as my lock clicks shut, desperately hoping that Hudson and Lucas didn't hear us.

"Well, little one." Aden smirks at me. "I didn't think you'd be so eager to get me alone."

"Would you shut up," I murmur, turning my head back to the door to listen, my milk and box of cookies still clutched in my hands. "I don't want Hudson to know I was listening."

"Listening, is it?" Aden says, not bothering to lower his voice. "Looked like you were doing more than that

I give him a dirty look, alluding to murder and torture and every horrible thing he can imagine if he doesn't shut his mouth right now.

I can see the laugher cross his face, but he puts his hands up, complying with my demand for silence. Suddenly, I hear someone open Hudson's door, take a few steps outside.

Silence for a moment, and then murmured voices.

Then, someone passes by my door.

goes quiet again,

I murmur.

are people in my home whom I'm unaware of. If Hudson is

me curiously, allowing

slowly shake my head. "You're getting nothing from me,

his lips, cocking his head

In his room? At night? While you..." he looks at the contents of my hands for a moment,

I'm not alone, am I," I toss back at him, speaking before I think about the implications of my words. "After all, you're here, aren't

against the door and walk to my bedside

midnight visitor?" Aden asks, his voice taking on a sensual note I'm not sure I've heard before.

I'm just...exhausted

hand to my forehead, closing my

room from my fiancé and his lover, with my fiancé's dad

I thought he

It's all just...too much.

sigh. Then I look up at him blandly. "Visit

"We can

and tosses them

he murmurs, his eyes on my mouth again. "This will be nothing like Girl

letting him see that none of this is sexy. It's all just so draining. "Can you just go away? I'm tired. I want to

surprises me by backing off. I watch him as he moves

moment to

hair, my lips still swollen from the force of his own pressed against them not so

over

steps out into the hall,

at the door. Then I slump down onto my bed, pulling the box of cookies

***

push through the door to the

knock came to the door at six thirty-a housekeeper delivering my fresh clothes for the day. There was

here I am, at seven in the morning,

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