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“I apologize, Gran. You’re right. I should’ve done all those things and more. There are no excuses, all I can say is that I haven’t been on solid ground since finding Grace.”
“Good. Keep him off kilter, young lady, that way he can’t always be in charge and sure of getting his own way.”
“I’ll do that, ma’am.”
“You know what the big shame is about your lack of communication skills?”
“No, Gran, what would that be?” He was dreading hearing the answer. Hamish accepted that when it came to his gran, he had to pay the price for hoarding his time with his woman.
“That you didn’t say anything about how beautiful she is. How she glows with love as she sits there beside you.” Maisie was dabbing at her moist eyes with a tissue. “Do you understand? These are important things I wanted to know.”
Now he felt like a total louse. The one thing he never wanted to do, he did. He’d upset her because he was feeling selfish about his time with his lover. How did he explain to the older woman who’d brought him up since birth that he hadn’t been able to think of anything outside the bedroom?
“Well, Gran, it’s been difficult to ummm—”
“Laddie, I see the horns, more grand than I’ve ever seen them before. If you aren’t angry, then there’s just one other option, you’re—”
“Gran!” He interrupted her before she could say anything more about his physical needs.
“What? We’re adults here and there’s no way you can hide from anyone what you’re feeling for this bonnie lass with those horns at full stand and your—” There was a satisfied smile on her lips as she stopped what she’d been about to say and looked at her grandson, pride clearly written across her wrinkled features.
“Fine! No need to put it into words either.” He was disgruntled and blushing. This was the woman who raised him and she still had the ability to make him feel like he was back in short pants. Hamish stood to make his way to the wet bar on the other side of the room. He started to pour the ladies an aperitif and a treble whisky for him. He had a feeling he was going to need it.
It wasn’t long before he heard it and had to smile. Grace and his gran were talking to each other with laughter and joy wrapping around their words. He knew it would happen and was delighted when it did. Picking up their glasses, he moved closer to them when he heard the unmistakable “horny man” and Maisie, his elegant grandmum, was laughing her head off.
“Grace!” Startled, Hamish couldn’t believe she’d told the older woman her nickname for him.
“What?” She didn’t look remotely sorry for what she’d said.
“I can’t believe you told her!” Stunned at what he’d heard and yet how she pretended not to understand what she’d done left him fighting back his laughter. Grace was delightfully irreverent and all his.
“What, did you think it was a secret?” She asked him while looking pointedly at his hard-on poking against the kilt.
“Okay, I won’t be spending as much time at the office as I used to. I’ll make a great stay-at-home dad, though.”
“You certainly will, Hamish, a wonderful husband and dad,” Grace confirmed as she looked up at him with her love shining in her eyes for everyone to see.
This was his woman, gazing at him with love in her eyes. Everything would work out for them, they had each other and together they could handle anything. Whatever the future had in store for them, it was sure to be an adventure.
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Tilly Greene was born into the easy folds of a sleepy beach town and embraces the laid back mindset she grew up with. Life took a turn one day while sitting in the back of the school bus with her friends: she was introduced to the joys of romance novels and has never looked back. Every day she looks forward to writing about women who are independent and confident, the men who love them, and their twisting path to each other.
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