Chapter 19
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.
Scarlett moved back, both of us kneeling as she pressed her back to my front, and I slid one hand down, flicking my middle finger over her clit, the other holding her close as I cupped her breast.
“Come. You earned it.”
“So greedy,” she teased right back, and then she was coming, her beautiful cunt clamping around my cock as I slid in and out of her, both of us shaking from the exertion.
But I wasn’t done with her yet. I slid out of her, and then moved her to her side.
With wide eyes, she reached for me, and I lifted one leg and slid deep into her.
“That’s it. So fucking tight.”
“I’m going to have to do more Pilates and yoga I think,” she teased, but then she was moaning, her eyes rolling in the back of her head as I slid in and out of her, this position deeper than usual.
We rolled into each other, and I found myself on top of her, cradled between her thighs as I moved slowly, taking her lips with mine as we continued to move.
And when she finally came again, tears sliding down her cheeks, I slammed home one more time and filled her. We laid there, my hips slowly working in and out of her as I continued to fill her with my cum, and I took her lips.
“You’re sleeping on the wet spot,” she teased.
Smile deepening, I kissed her hard on the lips, and then rolled us so we were at the side of the bed, still joined.
“We don’t have time to sleep. We have a full day, and then the dreaded family dinner.”
“Oh yes. The family dinner.”
Nestled in my arms, neither one of us really wanted to get up, but then our alarms went off, and I groaned.
“Yay for to-do lists. But you get to wash the sheets.”
I reached around and smacked her ass, loving the way that her inner muscles clenched around my still semi-hard cock.
“You can spank me all you want, but you’re still doing the sheets.”
With a grin, I slid out of her, and then moved her so she lay over my lap.
“If you say so.”
“Hudson Cage. Now I have your cum running down my inner thigh, and you better not spank me. Ouch!” she screeched as I smacked her hard on the ass, once, twice, and then she moaned.
“Oh, look at that, so pink and ready for me.” I speared her with two fingers, and she wiggled on my lap.
“Are you kidding me right now?” she asked, panting. “The alarms are going off, and you don’t really think that you’re going to—”
She moaned again, as I slid my thumb over her clit and continued to fuck her with my fingers. And when she came again, squeezing me tight, I pulled out of her, smacked her on the ass just once more for good measure, and pulled her into my lap as she sat there, shaking.
“If I fall asleep because I did not get any last night, I will blame you.”
“You say the sweetest things. Of course they’re going to blame me. They know that I keep you up all night with my cock.”
“I mentioned something along those lines to Ivy once, and your brother overheard, but you really need to stop repeating that around.”
“What do you mean? That my cock is so amazing that you just can’t sleep at night?”
“Hudson Cage.”
“I love it when you get all grumpy with me.” I smacked a kiss on her lips and stood up, carrying her to the bathroom so we could get ready for the day.
I turned on the shower and let her begin her process that took far longer than mine, before going back, shutting off the alarms, and stripping the bed.
Like I would let her do laundry while she was walking bow-legged like that.
I tossed everything into the washer, began a cycle, and then headed to the shower. She was finishing up, when I walked right in and took her mouth.
“Good morning.”
“You and your cock better stay five feet away from me right now. I cannot be late for my half day at work.”
“I can’t believe you’re taking part of a vacation day.”
She shrugged, a small smile on her face. “I promised Luna and Mom that we would go shopping together. And if Mom’s going to leave the house, I’m going to be there.”
I kissed her softly and nodded, no words needed.
Her mother wasn’t healed or a hundred percent the way she used to be. She never would be. None of us would. We each had scars of our own, the ones on my shoulder always going to be ridged, the scar on Scarlett’s hairline forever hidden by her bangs, but still there if you looked hard enough.
But Mrs. Blair left the house more often than she ever had, all because she loved her girls and was trying.
That was a damn strong woman, and I liked her a lot. The Cages may overwhelm her, but they overwhelmed me, so it wasn’t like I could say much about it. However, she was great and did her best to try to be in her daughter’s life.
And for that, I’d love her to the end of my days.
In the months since the fire, things had moved quickly in some areas but slowly in others.
Scarlett had moved in with me, because there was no way I would let her out of my sight.
She rented out her home to people with long-term rentals, because the town wouldn’t allow short-term rentals.
And I knew she was thinking about selling the place, though since I owned the land itself, it would make sense just to keep it as another place for the Cages.
Not that I had been the one to think that.
No that had been Flynn, and his ever-present wanting to make sure the Cages owned everything and increased their connections.
He was like our dad that way, but in the best ways possible and not the ways that made you want to tear your hair out.
After the authorities were finished with the Ackerson property, my friends had come in with their bulldozers, and the contractors had leveled everything that needed to be.
And although part of me had wanted to sell the damn place and never allow any part of that memory back, it had been Dorian of all people—the one with the most connections to the place—that had convinced me to continue on with my plan.
A few of the cabins were already set up and ready to go, and a few others would be starting soon. There would be a main building, one for larger families, and that was taking a little longer, but it’d only been a few months.
Some of the people that I had served with who had made it home were already requesting time to stay, and I knew that seeing them wasn’t going to be easy, but introducing Scarlett to them? That would make the awkwardness worth it.
Michelle’s family hadn’t been back, and I didn’t think they would.
And if they did, I would deal with it. I couldn’t blame myself for the rest of my days, I knew that.
I would always hold some of that blame. Of that guilt.
There was no getting around that. But the fact that I could even speak the words, and talk it out with Scarlett, meant that maybe I was figuring shit out.
Scarlett seemed to be changing everything. Not only was the resort adding more events that were gaining recognition among certain circles, but she was now working on a charity aspect of the resorts, and Isabella and James had jumped right into it.
I loved that woman, and one day she would be my wife, if she let me that was, but she was already part of my family.
I ran my hand over my heart as I stood in my studio, knowing I had work to do, and wondered how the hell I’d gotten here.
I had hidden in Cage Lake for a reason. And those reasons would always be there. But now I wasn’t hiding. I was here because I wanted to be. Because I loved a woman who loved Cage Lake, and maybe being a Cage of the infamous Cages wasn’t all that bad.
My phone buzzed and I ignored the text from my agent, wondering when we would talk about the next showing in a month, but I would get back to him soon.
See, that was growth.
My phone buzzed again, and this time while I wanted to ignore it, I knew I couldn’t.
The infamous group chat, one of the thousands, lit up my phone, and I sighed.
Flynn
6:00 PM at Aston’s?
Aston
Yes. You’re welcome to be there early, you know the code in case we’re not there yet.
Isabella
We’ve already opened it up for you guys though, just to make sure that it was ready to go.
Sophia
I have the list. We’re good here.
James
All of us will be there. And we’re bringing food, though I know that Aston already has food there. Right?
Dorian
Harper and I are bringing the food that needed to be cooked ahead of time. Don’t worry. We have a plan.
Ford
Should I be afraid of the plan? And I’m sorry that the family can’t be there, but with the sniffles going around, we didn’t want to travel with the whole crew.
Isabella
Poor baby. I’m glad that you’ll be there though.
Phoebe
And you’re hitching a ride with us so we’ll talk about that in the other group chat.
Theo
That makes me sad that I’m not part of the group chat.
Kyler
You do realize that my body has no idea what time it is and I was currently sleeping. How many texts do you guys do a day?
Emily