“My mother has this rule that we have to speak Spanish at the dinner table.”
“Really? That’s so random. Or is it?”
“She thought we were losing our ability to speak both languages, so when I was almost a teenager she made the rule. We also had to sit down when Dad sat, and couldn’t get up until Mom was done eating. So she’d take forever to eat. Some meals she wouldn’t even touch her plate until everyone else was done.”
“That is a determined mama. Did it work?”
“Absolutely.”
Tabby’s cheeks hurt she was smiling so hard. She would be useless at a table like that. Her grasp of other languages began and ended after a few necessary phrases.
If she didn’t say something soon she’d keep sitting here, staring at him, wondering where the hell he’d been her whole life.
“What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?” she asked.
Javier’s smile widened and his lids lowered just enough to spark an answering warmth low in her belly.
He leaned in just a bit and she stopped breathing.
“I’m looking at it,” he whispered.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
It can never be said that NYT & USA Today Bestselling author Sidney Bristol has had a ‘normal’ life. She is a recovering roller derby queen, former missionary, and tattoo addict. She grew up in a motor-home on the US highways (with an occasional jaunt into Canada and Mexico), traveling the rodeo circuit with her parents. Sidney has lived abroad in both Russia and Thailand, working with children and teenagers. She now lives in Texas where she splits her time between a job she loves, writing, reading and fostering cats.
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