"Oh, Jagger." Mia calls out sweetly, and he stops in his tracks, turning to look at her, "Hurt her or Allie again and I swear I'll hurt you so bad you won't be able to walk for a week. Do you understand?" Such venom for such a little lady.
Jagger glances at me and smirks. Yeah, I'm going to have fun with Mia.
"I won't." He assures her, “That's my daughter, and I'm going to make sure that nothing ever hurts her. Thank you for looking after them for me."
"Fuck," Mia whispers as she wipes tears from her eyes. "The asshole had to say that! I was fine hating him and then he comes out with that."
Lacey laughs, but she too has tears in her eyes. "I'll be back later, I need to make a phone call."
Mia's eyes widen before she slowly smiles, "Okay," and it's in that moment that I realize Lacey's going to call Sarah and let her know what's happened. I should stop them, but I don't. They've looked after their friend when Jagger couldn't, and they're protecting her, making sure she’s not blindsided.
"You left," I say when Lacey leaves us alone.
She stands and turns her chair around so that she's facing me properly. She sits back down; I do the same. She's even more beautiful than I remember. What nobody knows, not even Jagger is that Mia has ruined me. I've not slept with anyone since her. I've been searching for her for a long time, and she's finally here. We're in a fucked-up situation, but that's not going to stop me from having her. She's mine, and I plan on keeping her that way forever.
"I'm sorry, I know that I should have left a note or something. I didn't think you'd want to hear from me again." Her voice is gentle as she wrings her hands together.
"Mia, you were a virgin, why me?" It's something that's been playing on my mind since that night, I knew as soon as I entered her that she was innocent and I should have pulled out and walked away but I couldn't, as soon as I thrust inside of her, she was mine.
She blushes, her porcelain skin turning bright red. "I didn't think you noticed."
I take her hand and pull her toward me, she comes a little hesitantly, but as soon as she sits on my lap, she softens against me. "Mia, you never did answer me, why me?" I whisper.
She sighs, "I don't know Hudson, there's something about you that I can't explain. You make me feel things that I've never felt before. It's like you're a magnet, I'm being sucked into you and no matter how much I resist it doesn't work." Her voice is a whisper and it hits me in the gut. She feels this pull too, that's good, because it means I won't have to work too hard at persuading her.
"Mia, I'm not a good man. I'm never going to be one either." I won't do what my dad did; it's not who I am. I wouldn't turn my back on that life, it's in my blood. "I can't promise the future, but I can promise that I will make you feel like the princess you are."
Her breath hitches, "Hudson." She whispers and fuck, she needs to stop. My dick is hard enough to cut diamonds. "We can't do this, you're my stepbrother."
I turn her around so that she's straddling me, such sadness etched on her face. "I don't give a fuck. You're mine, Mia, and no one is going to deny me what's mine." I growl as I capture her mouth kissing her hard and fast. Fuck, how can I have missed her when I only spent one night with her?
She whimpers as I pull away, "Hudson, we can't." She gets up off my lap and walks over to her chair, "I'm sorry."
I smile, she's so fucking polite. "Why are you apologizing?"
Tears swim in her eyes, "Because I don't want to hurt you."
So fucking innocent.
"Mia, you're not hurting me." I tell her truthfully, "This thing between us, it's never going to go away. You've been on my mind for almost two years now. I know what I want, do you believe that because our parents are married that it's going to end whatever this is?"
"They won't like it." She tells me, and I know right there that she wants this as much as I do.
"Baby, you leave them to me. Okay?"
She bites her lip, her eyes glance to the ground, she's unsure. "Hudson..."
"Boss." Martin's voice calls out and Mia immediately straightens, she's frowning as she looks between Martin and I.
"Yes?" My irritation clear, whatever it is had better be life or death.
"Um, Boss," he says again looking extremely uncomfortable, good the fucker, he may have undone all the work I laid out tonight.
"I'll be back in a minute," I tell her and I can tell from the glassy eyes that she's already gone back to the woman who doesn't believe we should be d
oing this. "What?" I growl as I come to stand in front of Martin.
He doesn't react to my annoyance, "Boss, Arturo has been arrested. I've been told on good authority that he'll be deported within the week."