QUOTE : You’re not going to break me, Hudson. I thought you might, at first. Turns out you make me better. And I think I do the same for you.”<br /><br />“You do.”<br /><br />“If you decide to not…” I searched for how to say what I meant. “Follow through…with whatever this is that we have, it will hurt. But I won’t be broken.”<br /><br />“But it would hurt?”<br /><br />“Like a motherfucker.”<br /><br />“Then we better follow through.” He drew me closer, wrapping his arms around my waist. “Alayna, you’re fired. You can’t be my pretend girlfriend anymore.” His face grew serious. “Be my real girlfriend instead.”<br /><br />Joy swept through me in a dizzying rush. “I kind of think I already am.”<br /><br />“You are.”<br /><br />“Can I still call you H?”<br /><br />“Absolutely not.” He turned his mouth to meet mine and kissed me with lips sweet and tender, but passionate all the same.