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.