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Boys of RDA Chapter 216: I'll Keep You Safe
Hudson stretches himself across the couch, his path only blocked by the popcorn bowl that sits between us."You don't have to worry, Amanda. I'll keep you safe." Hudson's words are sure. He has faith in himself. His head moves closer, so he's inches away, and his face meets mine. He stops and waits, leaving me to close the distance between us.Before the countdown reaches one I kiss him.His lips are not rough, but harder than mine. Our first touch is tentative and then Hudson runs his tongue over my lip and I open, giving him access to my mouth. I pull on his shoulders to bring him closer and knock the popcorn bowl to the floor with my knee. The crowd on the television roars to life at our side as I tug Hudson's body on top of mine.A flood of emotions releases while I'm in his arms and for the first time in days I feel safe, happy, whole. Hudson has wrapped me in a protective bubble and I never want to leave.Hudson pulls back an inch and I lean forward, not willing or want
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 217: No Idea Why He's Worried
See? I don't know why Hudson worried. There's a security guard right here. It doesn't matter if he's in his seventies and his only deadly weapon is a can of mace he carries in his back pocket. Joe's still guarding the building. And doing a damn fine job if you ask me."Spent time out of town with family," he replies. "And you?"I stop at the edge of his desk and pause for a moment. "I stayed here, but it was good."He tips his head as the front door opens for another worker so I keep on walking. Not everyone in this office building received the full week off like my company gives us every year, but there is still a happiness with those here today. We appear lighter and excited for the future.Or it's only me.I didn't go home to see my family this holiday, and I saw someone get shot, but in a weird twist of fate you wouldn't believe even if you read it in a book, I had a good Christmas and New Year.It's the first Monday in January and even though the sky's cloudy with fog
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 218: Everything is Not Okay
"Amanda, are you okay?"Hudson's voice startles me and I drop the tiny card. It flutters to the desk and lands face down. Without looking I slide open my middle desk drawer and push the card in, closing the drawer as Hudson turns the corner to my cubicle."You know where my desk is?" I ask my heart beating in triple time, but not missing the fact he didn't waste a second looking for where I sat and walked right to my location.Hudson shrugs. "Part of the job." His eyes travel over my body as his hand taps away on the fabric edge of my cubicle wall.There's at least a good two feet of distance between us, but I catch a quick sniff of the cologne he put on this morning. I smile, a little lost in the memories of watching him shave at my bathroom sink. The last person I watched hunched over a sink as they looked at themselves in the mirror while using a razor was one of my brothers, and that usually ended up with somebody bleeding."Why are you acting weird?" he asks still checki
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 219: They Want Carrots
"It's Monday. They want carrots." I want to say my guinea pigs are smarter than most. We use a routine of which vegetables they get per day so they can keep a healthy rotation for their diet. I want to believe they're aware today is Monday and there're carrots coming their way, but in reality, they're called guinea pigs for a reason. The pigs are always hungry. It doesn't matter what day of the week or time I come home. They know once the front door closes they get food. Even if they still have a mound of hay sitting next to them and their pellets are full. The ongoing call for more food is strong with these two. They always want more."What? You grab a handful from the fridge and throw them in the cage?" Hudson asks looking at me like he hopes this is the answer.But nothing in life is so easy.I smile and slowly shake my head. "Carrots are full of sugar so they are only allowed one per week and you have to hold it when you give it to them otherwise Cupcake will steal the carrot
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 220: Introvert Relaxation Time
"Are you sure I can't use something to con you into coming?" Aspen asks as Marissa yells in the background. I can't hear it from my end, but I'm sure what she said was Marissa-ish.I twist a piece of hair around my finger and lean back on the couch. "No, but you have fun. It's been a long day and I need to relax.""Yeah, I bet you need to relax. With the hot guy you've got staying with you." Aspen laughs and keeps gasping for air between laughter for another good minute before she's able to gain control of herself. "How is work? Does anyone even notice I'm gone?""Of course, they do." Unfortunately, it's not necessarily the way Aspen probably hopes. I have no plans of telling her how a bunch of our coworkers had a pool going on how long the new billionaire's wife would make it before she quit. Jesse Pervis from the warehouse made over a grand."Guess who they fired?" I ask to steer the question away."Who?"As expected my news distracts Aspen from whether or not people are
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 221: He Shouldn't Care Who I Want to Punch
Which I love. I like it so much my stomach clenches in happiness. If Hudson were here as only a bodyguard, he wouldn't care about an ex-boyfriend or any of the people I want to punch. There are exactly two thousand four hundred and one ways I can analyze this information, but from the way his deep thoughtful eyes bore into mine, if I don't start talking soon he's liable to pull it out of me."It's not worth my time to write down an ex-boyfriend in the book." It's not like it's a damn burn book."Because there are too many?"I slap him across the shoulder. Then I move my body so we're face to face, my left leg curled up on the couch. "No! But once you break up what's the point of giving someone mental space?"I leave out the part where after every breakup I spent at least a week analyzing exactly what each of us did wrong and how I could have been better. Then ultimately with the help of Marissa, Aspen, Simone and sometimes Clare, we usually all end up at the conclusion that I h
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 222: Back of a Police Car
A car rumbles past, shaking the side door where we're parked on the side of the road.Ben leans back, his arm outstretched over the back of the passenger seat as he stares at me, neither one of us moving. "You don't need to sit in the back, you know.""Oh." It's not until right then I glance around and realize when it was time to get into Ben's police car I went right to the back seat. Granted I've never been arrested before, but I guess I assumed. I blame my lack of steady thought on Hudson... And sadness."We usually save the back for criminals. You're not a criminal. Are you?" Ben asks, laughing as he gets out and opens the back door to let me out.If he only knew. Subconsciously I put myself in the back seat of his unmarked cruiser because I carry so much guilt. I'm heavier. Like I'm carrying an overstuffed suitcase of lies. Ben has been nothing but a fourth brother to me. He's looked out for me. He took care of me the night of the... Calling it an accident is incorrect, bu
Last Updated : 2022-10-26Boys of RDA Chapter 223: Follow My Lead
An older woman with long hair bordering between blonde and white opens the door. She wears a velvet jumpsuit, but not the kind you find on people who are retired in Florida. She's more of what you'd expect on a housewife with too much money on her hands and no fashion sense. Her ears and neck are covered in gold and if not for the small lines creasing her forehead and around her neck, I'd probably put her at my age."Detective Adams. How good to see you again."Ben smiles. "Mrs. Rostelli, I have a couple of quick questions for you today. This is my associate Amanda." He gestures in my direction and I smile, nodding my head twice. Hopefully that's to his lead."You best stay outside. No offense, but I don't want to look cozy with the police."Ben lifts an eyebrow putting this entire exchange into the curious category. "Do you want to find out who shot your son?"She scoffs. "Of course I do. I want those bastards brought down, but I live here. What will I care about catching sh
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Boys of RDA Chapter 246: Series Epilogue
Six months later"I thought you were painting this room silver?" Hudson asks dropping his half of the couch inside of our brand-new tiny living room. That's not fair. It's bigger than the apartment when I lived with Marissa. Living here will be like me having my own special mansion. Except this time the rent is higher.I put my end of the couch down and then promptly sit at the end of it. I've done my part of moving. This is why we hired movers. I don't know what it is about men wanting to lift heavy objects. Plus, it's not like there's much furniture to move. The old apartment came furnished. This stuff is new.I look at the wall, which shimmers in the bright light from our large open window in the new living room. "I did. It's Silver Fox.""This color is gray.""No, it's Silver Fox.""It looks gray to me."I shake my head in dismay. "Gray is darker."He nods slowly. "Uh-huh. Whatever you say."Hudson and I have been living together since he made the permanent move t
Boys of RDA Chapter 245: Finn Hooked You Up
A few weeks later"Wow, Finn hooked you up." My eyes blink a few times trying to adjust to the overpowering glare of so many television screens in one room.Hudson laughs as he steps behind me. "Ridge taught me you can never have too many cameras.""Well, you definitely put his words into practice." No less than thirty flat screen TVs line a wall in the room Finn and Hudson started calling the war room. I'm pretty sure Finn has a camera everywhere Aspen may go in San Francisco. There is even one in the comic shop. The transition has gone well for the most part. Finn and Aspen had a heated debate over her bodyguard situation.Once Hudson accepted the position, he didn't waste time. It's been less than three weeks and he has a war room set up and is spying on half the residents of the city. My man gets shit done."Are you happy?" I ask turning around so we are face to face.Hudson rolls his eyes and says something silently to the ceiling of the room. He's recently taken up pr
Boys of RDA Chapter 244: Full Marissa Style
The glass automatic door at the airport entrance slides open and I saunter in with a purpose. No woman has ever been as determined as I am to put a man in his place. Full Marissa style.And then maybe win him back. It depends on his response. I've been through tons of shit the last few weeks. I need someone who can handle me and won't chicken out.Aspen and Finn checked me out of the hospital and then took me back to my apartment making me promise I wouldn't leave when I asked to be alone. My mother even listened when I told her it was a great time to visit my brother in Washington. He'll love it.Besides my shattered heart, I'm medically fine. There's no reason for people to be stuck hovering around me. Hurt or not, I've still peopled too much these last few days, so it wasn't hard to press that I needed quiet time. I promised to head right into bed and sleep for a few more days.But I've broken many promises lately. And kept secrets. I am not the same girl I was last year. An
Boys of RDA Chapter 243: Horrible Timing
I hate to be a bad friend — who am I kidding, I'm always the bad friend — but Aspen could not have picked a worse time to make her visit. And I love her. She was here all day yesterday. Getting water, refilling water, fluffing my pillow and accidentally pulling on my IV before doing it again while apologizing for pulling on the IV. Hudson and I haven't had two minutes to ourselves. I tried to fake sleep yesterday afternoon, but then they stood around the bed looking and me and whispering."Do you need your pillow fluffed?" she asks for the thousandth time. It's become her filler question. What she asks me if she doesn't know what else to ask.I shake my head, giving Finn my best "calm her down" look, but he doesn't notice. He's so madly in love with Aspen he thinks everything she does is adorable. "I'm fine, Aspen. Relax."My best friend is definitely more put together than Hudson in the last two days, but not by much. Her hair is flat on one side, a little curly on the other, an
Boys of RDA Chapter 242: A Scene I Never Want to See Again
A STEADY STREAM of beeps wakes me up to a stream of light.A hospital. It's the place I've woken up the last two days. I can't complain. It's one hundred times better than a concrete floor in an abandoned factory in Oakland. Even still I fight the panic as my brain comes into consciousness. The hospital therapist says eventually there will come a day when I don't wake up ready to flee, but I'm not sure I believe her.My awake body is heavy and sluggish. Yesterday I spent most the day sleeping as my conscious mind worked around what happened after I was taken from the sidewalk in front of Cosmo's.Hudson was shot. I watched it with my own eyes. What I didn't know at the time was the bullet grazed the side of his body and most of his injury was due to the shock of being shot. Even though my mind didn't want to believe it at the time, he led the charge to rescue me. And yes, he absolutely shot Jimmy in the head — a scene I never ever want to see again, but one that plays on repeat e
Boys of RDA Chapter 241: Kidnapped
Breathe. I hit reality with a start. Tears form as I blink my eyes to open them. My shoulder hurts, a tingling stiff sensation like I slept on it wrong. At one point I must have broken out in a cold sweat and my skin is clammy, moist yet chilled. My knuckle scrapes the hard ground underneath my body as I sit up and the events of what happened flood back. It wasn't a bad dream. I've been taken right from the front of Cosmo's. Kidnapped.They shot Hudson.I have no idea how long I slept or where I am. No longer in the van, the room is dark around me and it takes longer than I want for my eyes to adjust. Of course, there's no positive to be found when they do. Sawdust and dirt smells permeate the air. On the ground there's not only cold hard concrete but sharp pieces of wood. I wipe a few from my pants legs only to have them stick to the skin of my fingers.As I try to stand, there's a clink of metal. I tug my foot to find it doesn't move. My leg is bolted to the ground with thick m
Boys of RDA Chapter 240: Forgive and Forget
"Are you sure you won't walk in there and start crying?" Hudson asks as we stop in front of Cosmo's Comics and Café.I take a deep breath and check myself before I answer because frankly he's probably right to be worried. It's been two days since we met with Drew at the restaurant in Oakland and I spent most of that night crying. I haven't talked to anyone since then. More than likely they think I've been taking this time to apologize to Hudson. He promises he's forgiven and forgotten and even understands why it took so long.Hudson spent the last few days consoling me as I came to terms with finally admitting what happened that night and saying goodbye to Drew if only in my own mind. He's been perfect. He didn't push or yell at me to do it faster or tell me I was being ridiculous. He listened and held me when I needed him. I couldn't ask for a better man.Hudson is everything I've ever wanted in a guy. Sensitive enough to figure out when I'm hurting, but strong enough to tell me
Boys of RDA Chapter 239: Final Answers
"That's your answer?" Hudson's eyebrows lift.I hit my knee against his. "Hudson."He sighs in agitation."Well, Drew, the way I look at it Amanda doesn't have much to tell. It sounds to me as if in her story you were a friend who was there to help her out. Who didn't want to get involved in a police investigation. But before I can trust her opinion that you're a nice guy, I need proof."Drew laughs even though it's inappropriate for the time. "I don't think I'm a nice guy, but thanks, Amanda.""Um, you're welcome?""I started working construction jobs part time when Clare and I were in foster care." He stops talking right as the story gets good."But you don't do construction work now, do you?" Hudson asks the exact question I've been thinking.It's like pulling teeth to get facts out of Drew, but what he doesn't understand is Hudson will have no qualms telling Ben if he's not satisfied with his answers."Yes and no. From time to time my boss asks me for extra favors
Boys of RDA Chapter 238: Truthful Memories
"Sorry, Dean, I've got to get home. Lots of Christmas prep to do."There's no time to chase another raid with so much work to do for Aspen's Christmas celebration. They overdo it for most holidays, but the big ones are the worst.He nods, accepting the answer. I rarely take him up on offers for more raiding or the hundred times he's asked me out for coffee. "Okay, see you next time." He waves, following a large group of people making their way to cars and bikes before heading toward the wharf.I step onto the sidewalk outside the baseball stadium to look for a cab. The road is eerily quiet since there isn't baseball in December and the people from the raid snatched up the cabs. Even though Grant, Clare's boyfriend would kill me, I scroll through my phone and find the Uber app. If I have to call for a ride anyway, I should at least make it a cheap one. He'd be pissed over how close I am to his neighborhood without someone here with me, but it's too late to worry about that now.
