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“Seems kind of far from Sweet Water Falls,” Ted said next, his voice a forced casual Bea had heard before.
“Lucky for all of you,” Bea said, inserting her voice loudly into the conversation.“You don’t have to figure out how Grant and I see each other.”She gave her sons two very pointed looks, and even threw one Meredith’s way.“Now, go put your things away so we can eat.Poor Nana is starving.”
“I’m fine,” Bea’s mom called from the living room.
“Chicken’s not done yet,” Grant said behind her, his voice almost a murmur.
“I want to see my grandbabies,” Daddy yelled, and Bea waved for her children to go entertain their grandfather.
“We’re not babies,” Meredith said.“I graduated from college, Pops.”
Grant edged closer to Bea; she could feel his presence, the warmth from his body, behind her.She sank into his side, and he put his arm around her.“I think that went well,” he said.
Meredith turned and watched Bea and Grant, a smile kicking up the corners of her mouth.“About what I expected,” she said.
“So you’ll go to Big Bend with your friends next weekend,” he said.“And then I’ll see you the last week of May.”
“Yep.”She turned into him, this kind, funny, charming man who’d captured her heart so quickly.“Shelby will be there the day before I leave, so I’ll get to meet her.”
“And we’ll go from there,” he said.
“Yep.”She glanced back at her children, but Daddy had something pulled up on Mama’s phone to show them.“He won’t get a phone, but he always wants to use Mama’s.”She giggled, and Grant’s low chuckle joined her.
She looked at him again.“Have I told you I’m planning to come to Hilton Head permanently?”
Surprise flowed through his widened eyes.“No,” he said, followed by a quick cough.“I hadn’t heard that.”
She beamed at him, her joy overflowing.“Well, I’ll have to have a place to stay while I look for somewhere to live.Good thing I know a guy on the island.”
He grinned at her.“Yeah, good thing.”He touched his lips to hers in a chaste kiss, what with her children present and all.“When might you make this move permanent?”
“I’m thinking before the Fourth of July,” she said, touching her forehead to his.“I putExperience fireworks in a new stateon my love list.”She shrugged one shoulder.“So I have to do it.”
“Did you add Fall in love at age forty-five to the love list?”
“As a matter of fact,” she said, holding him close to her.“I did.But I already crossed that one off.”
He chuckled, kissed her again—not so chaste this time—and said, “I love you, Bea.”
“I love you too, Grant.”
The End
