around this woman.
She was so damn enthusiastic, and he remembered well what a wildcat she was in the bedroom. This woman was surprising him by the minute. She loved mornings, nights, and coffee, and he remembered how she went to a whole new level when she had an orgasm. He decided right then and there that he was going to have her back in his bed . . . and very soon.
“I guess we’ll take my truck then,” he said.
“Can we go now?” She was practically bouncing on her feet.
“You really think I’m going to go to one event with you and my entire world will change?” he asked. But he followed her out the door, closed the office, and walked to his truck. She made it to the passenger side and was climbing in before he had a chance to open the door. He’d have to be faster.
“I’m going to need an address,” he told her. “I don’t understand the big mystery as I’m about to find out where were going in just a few minutes.”
Hudson wasn’t fond of surprises. But then again, he wasn’t disclosing his plans on how to change her mind, so this was tit for tat.
“I’ll tell you where to turn,” she said.
He started the truck, turned it around, and headed for the main road.
“What got you into a life of fighting for causes?” he asked. “You’re obviously smart, know what you’re talking about, and have a passion for life. You could pretty much do anything, but you choose to do a lot of volunteer work. With the talent you obviously have, I don’t get it.”
“My parents gave their entire lives to service. And even though I had dreams, I wanted to make them proud,” she began. “Though it started out wanting to do it for my parents, I’ve discovered I love the fight. So many people give up because it’s a hard battle. That just makes me want to do it so much more. It’s rare I can save a building, or help a cause, but when I’m successful I feel as if I’ve won a gold medal.”
“Do you ever feel like giving up? It’s got to be frustrating to lose so often,” he pointed out. He wasn’t saying it out of spite, he was truly curious. She directed him down the road as they continued talking.
“There are times I wonder why I do it. I try to protect a building, but it gets torn down and I’m hauled to jail. Or I try to save an apartment complex and make sure an owner treats his tenants fairly, but the landlord manages to find loopholes to screw those who barely make ends meet as it is. I think a society without morality is a sad place to live. But then I get a win, I help that one place, or help those people nobody else even saw, and it keeps me going through all of the bad.”
“I’ve been raised to believe if you do the right thing, good things will come your way. And if you do bad, it will eventually catch up to you. Do you think some of those people get into situations because of people like you fighting their battles for them? Do you think it makes them lazier if they don’t have to do it for themselves? That would be like that saying ‘If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, if you teach him to fish, he eats for life.’”
“I think there will always be people who take advantage of others. But I don’t think that’s the majority of those out there. I think people are born into situations they can do nothing about; they don’t know their rights or how to fight for them. If there aren’t people like me, they never learn.” She sounded reasonable. There was no censure in her voice, no anger. He could understand why she was listened to.
“I wasn’t born into the best of circumstances, but my brothers and I all made something of ourselves,” he pointed out.
“And I think there are a lot of people like you who make that happen. But you didn’t do it alone. You either had good parents motivating you or someone at school pushing you. One other thing people never talk about is someone like you had something you were born with that others don’t. You had strength of mind and body. It’s hard for you to imagine why everyone else isn’t like