Wilde's End

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hudson</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Give me the smallest reason to make a bad decision and I'll jump in with both feet. Case in point: thinking that drunkenly buying an abandoned town with my brothers is a good idea. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As builders we plan to renovate and flip the town maybe turn it into something worth seeing but the longer we're here the more things feel ... off. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's not until a bearded mountain man breaks into my room in the middle of the night and threatens for us to get out of his town that I realize Wilde's End isn't as abandoned as we were told. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But there's nothing waiting for me in the life I left behind and in making his demands Wilde has accidentally tapped into my competitive side. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Terrible decisions? Me? </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Wilde can bring it on. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Wilde</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I escaped to Wilde's End twenty years ago and since then I've dedicated my life to the town and the people who live there. Because if I focus on others I don't have the time or energy to face everything I've been running from. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Bellamy brothers coming to town is like three horsemen of the goddamn apocalypse. They leave destruction in their wake and when the eldest Hudson ignores my </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>very kind</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> request to leave it's time to take things into my own hands. Protecting this town is all I know how to do. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But I've never faced someone like Hudson. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His stubbornness matches mine and his attitude has an irritating way of worming under my skin. The more I push him the harder he pushes back until we're locked in a game neither of us will walk away from. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With his smart mouth bullheaded recklessness and those </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>damn eyelashes</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> I'm starting to question whether I can win this one. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But if I lose this town isn't the only thing on the line. </span></p><p></p>