Dangerous Rescue - Linzi Baxter Page 0,5
Hudson finally said. There was no point in lying to his nephew. They had an open and honest relationship.
“Why did you break up?”
“I'm an asshole.”
Kaiden looked at him. “When did you break up?” Anger blazed in his eyes.
The damn kid was too smart for his own good, and it made sense that Siena thought he could go to Harvard. Kaiden's mom had gone to Harvard Law School, and her husband had gone to Colombia for medical school. They’d both been incredibly smart. Hudson ran his hand over his heart. He missed his older sister.
“You broke up to move to California?” Kaiden continued. “Don't answer that. I can tell it's the truth. What I'm so shocked about is that she ended up here and never looked you up. Did she not want to live in California back then?”
Fucking hell. These were things he’d buried deep down, and he didn't want to talk about them. When he’d made the rash decision the move to California, he’d been thinking about Kaiden's future.
“Kai—”
“You hurt her.” Kaiden glared at him. “Ms. Davenport is a good person and doesn't deserve having someone break her heart. The last guy she dated was an ass. He didn't just upset her—he was selling drugs and that’s why I think she really got fired. Not for yelling at a student. It sucks that she has to teach public school now, but it’s beneficial to me because of her connections in the college world.”
“How do you have information about her ex?” Hudson asked. “Is she really telling the class personal details about her private life?”
“God no. But you can find anything on the internet. Someone said she used to be a model and that her photos were online. When you google her name, the story about her putting her ex away in jail comes up way before any of her modeling pictures.”
He understood why a bunch of teens would google Siena. Hudson still kept a photo of her tucked away in his sock drawer. What he didn't understand was why she was teaching. Her modeling career had paid her millions. She’d talked about working with young girls when she retired.
“Let's head home.” He had enough information. “Or are you going over to Max's house?”
“And miss you trying to google Ms. Davenport? Nope, I'm coming with you. This is going to be so entertaining.”
Hudson had no plan to track Siena's ex himself. His teammate Cy was a genius when it came to technology. He was also the person Hudson was closest to on the crew. They’d spent days together trapped in a cave on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan. Neither of them thought they would make it out alive. For five days, they’d hunkered down until their team came to the rescue.
Hudson never understood all the computer stuff Cy did. Over the years, he’d tried to learn a few things, but he didn’t know nearly as much as his team mate. Hudson was a sniper, and he could take out a target over two thousand meters away, but figuring out how to track someone with a computer was a different story. He left that up to his friend.
“Let's go,” he sighed.
Kaiden followed him to the truck, and they drove back to the beachside house, which his sister had owned. Hudson had felt it was best for Kaiden to continue to live there. His salary wouldn't cover the house or the monthly costs associated, but his sister had set up a fund to pay the monthly bills, and she'd paid the house off.
Over the years, Hudson socked his paychecks away in savings. When Kaiden graduated, he would move out of the house and let his nephew have his inheritance. His sister had also left Kaiden a huge trust fund to live off.
On the drive back to the house, nobody spoke. When they pulled up, a pit bull ran across the driveway. It seemed the neighbor's dog had escaped.
“I'm going to run next door and take Hannah home,” Hudson said.
He walked toward the fifty-pound pit bull. The fur on her back was still a little splotchy. Hudson hated any person who would harm an innocent animal. Luckily, Sidney had a huge heart and had saved Hannah, putting herself in danger to get the dog away from her owner. Hannah wasn’t the only dog Sidney and Gumby rescued over the years. The last time he counted, the couple had five dogs, but Hannah was the first one they got and the reason they