Hudson POV
Hudson was standing outside the Imperial hotel waiting for Jayden to come out.
After the dinner, Hudson had called up Jayden and asked him to meet him. Thankfully he was still awake and agreed to meet him, when Hudson insisted that it was urgent.
Hudson was sitting at the back seat and was eyeing Liam with interest as he saw that Liam who was usually a talkative guy had gone mum. He wanted to ask but decided to talk to Jayden first.
Just then Jayden arrived and got inside the car.
After settling down he asked. " What's so urgent Hudson that you couldn't wait till the morning?"
Hudson looked at him with concern then explained everything he had learned from his aunt.
"Jayden can we stop the project for sometime till the killer's caught?" Hudson asked him when Jayden failed to express himself after hearing the information Hudson had given him.
Hudson held his hand.
"Callie won't stop Hudson, she is very stubborn." Jayden said shook his head.
Hudson kept quiet for some time and said. "How about I talk to her and explain because all I am saying is to delay it, not to stop it altogether but we have to make it look like the project has been stopped, till the police catch hold of the killer who is running loose."
Jayden stared at Hudson for a long time and decided to listen to him and agreed as he knew that his beloved sister had been in love with Hudson for a long time and only he can coax her out of it.
After Hudson and Liam left, Jayden went up to his suite and poured himself some wine and started sipping it slowly remembering the time he had met Hudson it had been two years back when he had gone for a business summit to New York. They were both attending a conference and he had been really bored and had gone out to take a drag and get some fresh air.
He was busy smoking and enjoying the view of the city from the tenth floor, when he heard someone asking him for a lighter, he took out his lighter and turned to give it to the man behind him and realized that the guy was extremely handsome and had a certain aura in the way he carried himself.
He smiled and passed the lighter to him. And while they were enjoying their puffs, they introduced each other and talked for a long time, not realizing that they had vanished from the conference hall ,for quite a long time and people were searching for them.
As it happened that Jayden's colleague from college had also come for the conference and after looking for him all around, he finally found him at the open smoking zone, which was one floor above the conference hall.
When he entered the lobby he noticed Jayden and waved at him and then did Jayden realized that he had lost track of the time.
He introduced Hudson to Kay Lang, who had managed to walk towards them. As Jayden knew that Kay was allergic to smoke, yet he came to look for him.
The three of them bonded with each other and for the rest of the week they were inseparable and till the Summit ended and they had to head back but they kept in touch and after that, they always made it a plan to meet each other after every six months.
That's how he had come to know, how Hudson had set up his own company with his hard work and determination. Though he was the son of a millionaire, he never took his father's name to make a place for himself in the market.
He had already decided to give the project to Hudson a long time back before he proposed the idea but had not known that Hudson was the man Callie had been involved with back then in Sweden.
Callie had not talked much about him but he knew that she was still deeply in love with him but due to unfortunate circumstances, she never made the initiative to contact him and nor did she try to move on with any other guy.
Jayden knew that his mother's beloved project had lots of cons and proses but he never thought that someone might try to sabotage the project and try to harm Callie.
Although Callie was beautiful, she could not speak, so men usually avoided her as much as they could. If only they knew what a sweetheart she was.
But looking at Hudson's determination he knew that he was the only person who could convince Callie.
But soon after the killer is caught they would start the project.
After he finished his drink he got up and walked towards his room, as he was very tired.
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Callie POV
When I woke up the next morning I was feeling quite light-headed and looked at the bedside watch and realized it was eleven in the morning.
I panicked as I had set my alarm for seven in the morning. I got up abruptly and realized I had overslept but when I checked it again, I realized that someone had played with the alarm and changed the time.
I was furious and got up from the bed and ran outside my room, only to realize that he was not sitting alone in the living room.
Hudson was also present there and was looking at me with amusement in his eyes.
Then when he looked at me from head to toe, I realized that I was only wearing a long T-shirt and it showed my tanned legs. I went all red and without looking back, I ran back into my room.
My heart was beating fast.
I looked outside the window nervously, as we were heading to the site. I had never been this close to Hudson after I left the university.
A while ago I had panicked and ran inside my bathroom and locked it, as Hudson was lazily checking me out, I went red.
I was trying to control my breath when Jayden came and knocked on the door telling me to get dressed as Hudson had come to pick me up to go to the site but was shocked that Jayden was allowing me to go as he had objected the previous day.
Anyways I had taken longer time than usual to get dressed, as I did not want to overdress or Hudson might think I had done it for him.
I had worn a long cotton shirt and a blouse, which flaunted my cleavage and wore matching casual shoes with it.
He had looked at me closely and smiled with amusement.
Then taking his leave we both drove towards the site.
I was quite nervous and did not dare look at him but I saw him glancing towards me occasionally.
Suddenly the car came to a halt and I looked outside, we were parked outside a lavish apartment. I was puzzled and looked at him.
I had lost track of the location because I was distracted.
He smiled and said. "Callie I had to drive to my apartment as there is something fishy going on the floor above my Apartment. Please come along with me. I will try to solve the problem as soon as I can and we can head back."
I looked at his pleading face and agreed.
I was so engrossed in the sketch that when the doorbell rang, I was jolted out of musings,
When I open the door a young woman was standing there looking, as surprised to see me as I was.
She was probably close to my age, maybe a bit younger but certainly a stunningly, good-looking girl. Her shorts and halter top, all revealed her perfect figure. She was Curvy and tanned and had the most gorgeous carrot-colored hair, which I had ever seen.
We stared at each other in silence.
So Hudson has a girlfriend and I could see my heart beating faster than ever.
"Have I knocked into the wrong apartment," she said and rapidly and walked back to look at the door carefully. "Excuse me, Miss, I'm looking for Hudson Ford but I've obviously got it wrong, as there is no nameplate outside the door."
It took me a long time to respond to her question and I took my notepad and wrote. "No, you didn't. This is his apartment he lives here."
And obviously, he had enough time for at least one gorgeous woman after he came back from Sweden. who visits him often in his apartment? My heart was giving me all the wrong signals.
"He does? "The Women's voice was soft and slow as she inquired as she was very curious as to why i was writing on the pad. "With you? I did not know that he has a girlfriend well, heavens. "I was stunned and I did not know how to respond to her question, as I did not know who the girl was.
"He's not here now though," I wrote again, telling myself that i was very glad to have met his girlfriend. I could not stop thinking about him at all now. Could not stop wishing ....
" Oh !" The other woman manages to exclaim.
"I don't know when he will be back," I wrote on the pad. "He has gone to the top floor for some meeting you can wait if you want. But if you are leaving I'll tell him that you came by."
"I'm not sure you should," the woman said "He'll probably go mad."
"He didn't tell me where he lived," the woman confided. "Now I know why." This time she took her time, as she gave her to get swept over me appraisingly
" Oh, dear. I am not ....I mean, we're not ...I think you are misunderstanding ," I wrote down quickly, not wanting Hudson's girlfriend to get the wrong idea, the last thing I wanted was Hudson blaming me for the bust-up, of whatever sort of relationship he had with this woman. "He's not my boyfriend, I assured the women. You don't have to worry."
The women Laughed and it was a real laugh, too . "I think you are misunderstanding, too. He is not my boyfriend, either. He's my brother."
I was shocked and exclaimed. "You are what !"