Chapter 104

Chapter 104 Aden

Without hesitating, I pull a pen from a cup on my desk and slide it across the desk to Brooklyn.

Hudson tries to grab it, but she swats his hand away, snagging the pen and hastily signing her name to the bottom of the fourth page.

"Brooklyn," Hudson exclaims, putting his head in his hands. "What did you just do—"

"It's everything I've ever wanted, Hudson," she says matter of factly. "A way to help my family, to stand on my own two feet. And you and I-we can still be..." she hesitates.

She shakes her head, not able to get the words out.

But when she turns to me, her expression is grateful.

"Thank you, Aden," she says, her words sounding genuine. "I'll do everything I can."

Hudson pushes his chair back hard as he gets to his feet, storming towards the door.

"I'll never forgive you for this, Dad," he says, staring at me hard as he yanks the door open. "She was the

only one I had on my side, and you took her from me."

As much as I know this is all just business, I feel the smallest tinge in my heart for Hudson.

My son has never really had anyone who understood him. Certainly not me.

But for a while, he had Brooklyn.

Brooklyn lowers her eyes as Hudson slams the door shut behind him.

"Don't," I tell her, my voice soft.

looks up at

I tell her. "You made

nods in agreement. But still, she

top drawer of the desk.

and picking up the document. She

is an NDA. What's it for?" she

a contract," I explain. "For an additional service I'd

shock at the large number that's printed on the

asks, meeting his eyes again. "What

place my hands evenly on the desk, bringing

to

like she's unable to move

then rove lower, to her mouth, her breasts, her legs crossed neatly in the chair,

to pay handsomely for the

this, frozen in the chair before me,

hair has fallen loose of its messy ponytail and into

press my hands harder against the desk, avoiding the ridiculous urge to reach forward

knew she'd react like this, of course I'd

and I'd treated our relationships

started a relationship this

control too many times with this girl-that

never meant for it to go that

to keep kissing her, had to

been clear since the beginning that my wolf wanted her.

the answer,

It was

this situation-if she refuses me, I'd have put her in her place. But, on the rare chance that

Two birds

me, completely blindsided, as I lean further forward

a good deal Brooklyn," I assure her, holding her gaze. "Almost as good as the one I gave Jayde. You should

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