Southern Secrets (Southern #7) - Natasha Madison Page 0,65

that look off your face." He points at me, and I just look at him. "You had that same look in your eyes on Thursday night when we closed the bar."

I put my hands on my hips and roll my eyes. "I didn’t see you objecting when I got down on my knees." I walk to him and kiss his neck. "Nor did you object when I bent over." I tap his stomach. "Now, let’s go before I get back on my knees."

I go to walk out of the room but then look over my shoulder at him. He adjusts his cock that is starting to show exactly what he wants me to do. "Are we going?"

"Oh, we’re going," he says, walking to me. "But just so you know, when we get home later, I’m going to fuck that sass out of you." He slaps my ass, walking to the door. How did I go from having the upper hand to begging him to fuck the sass out of me? He waits for me at the front door, only turning the handle when I get close to him.

I walk out, and he joins me, his hand sliding into mine as we walk to the truck. I get in, ignoring the flip that my stomach just did. He kisses me right before he closes the door, and the whole way to my grandparents’, he sits with my hand in his on his leg.

We get there with everyone else, so I can’t give him one more kiss before getting out of the truck. He turns off the truck and looks over at me. "Ready?"

I nod my head and get out of the truck to see Gabriel running over to me. "Auntie Amelia, I lost a tooth, and the tooth fairy came." He shows me his bottom teeth, the middle one missing.

"How much did he bring?" I ask, putting my hands around his shoulders as I walk to my brother and Emily.

"Fifty dollars," he says, jumping up and down. I look over at my brother, shocked.

"Fifty dollars," I repeat. "I need to speak to the tooth fairy that used to come to my house." I look at Ethan. "Once I got an IOU paper."

"Go and tell Grandma and Grandpa," I tell Gabriel. "The tooth fairy might have stopped here also." He looks at me, shocked, and then all you can see is his hair flying in the wind as he runs into the back, calling my grandparents.

"Seriously?" I look over at Ethan.

"He lost his tooth at nine o’clock," he says. "It was that or the hundred."

I try to roll my lips. "The struggle must have been real."

He pushes my shoulder as everyone laughs. The minute we get to the barbecue, I go one way and Asher goes the other. I walk over to my mother who sits by herself and see Gabriel collecting money from my father. "Hi," I say when I get close enough, and she looks at me, and she smiles big.

"Hey, baby girl," she says. "He’s going to walk out of this backyard a very rich boy," she says, pointing at Gabriel, who is getting money from my uncle Casey. I pull out the empty chair right beside her and sit down. "Do you want some lemonade?” my mother asks, and I just shake my head. "Are you okay?"

"I’m fine, why?" I ask, and she smiles and then looks down at the table, then up at me again.

"You’re just …" she says. "You’re just different."

My eyebrows pinch together in confusion. "How so?" I ask.

"One, you look happier," she says. "And two, your eyes shine all the time."

"My eyes are the same they have always been."

"No, they aren’t," she says, and I can see her eyes filling with tears. "There was a sadness in them." She blinks away the tears.

"There was no sadness there." My stomach sinks.

"There was," she tells me. "And you can deny it and ignore it, but it was there and now ..." Her hand comes up to cup my cheek. "But now there is a light in them that I’ve never seen." Her eyes leave mine and go into the direction of Asher, who stands there talking and laughing with my father and Ethan. "He’s good for you," she says.

I swallow the lump in my throat. "It’s nothing," I finally say, the words coming out in a whisper.

"It’s not nothing." She puts her hand on mine. "It’s everything." She is about to say something else when my