Key To My Heart: Stay Read Free

written all over her face every time
she looked at him.
    She didn’t want to feel this
way, but she was beginning to think that the only way she was going
to get away from her budding feelings for Garett would be to run
away from him. She pondered the idea that Gavin had indeed run away
from a woman just to take her mind off of the handsome man in front
of her, and quickly banished the unwanted idea that it WAS her
little sister that he had run away from.
    Garett was giving her an amused grin.
“Earth to Acasia. Were you picturing me naked again?”
    “ Enough. I’m going to start
calling you Gavin the second if you don’t start remembering that
you have a personality of your own.” She gave him a tight smile.
“What can I get for you Mr. Black?”
    He faked a wounded look. “You’re cold
woman.” Then he brightened. “But it’s the ones that seem so cold
that are so hot in bed isn’t it?”
    She shook her head at him,
hoping her cheeks weren’t red yet again. He was driving her crazy
and she could see that he was enjoying it. “Stop it or I’ll have
you banned and you’ll have to learn to cook.”
    “ I know how to cook. I know
how to do many things, very well.” He winked.
    “ Garett Elijah Black, I
swear if you don’t stop, I’m going to call your mother and tell her
all about the way you’ve been talking to me.”
    “ Must you forever remind me
that our families were so entwined that you not only witnessed
practically every awkward teenage drama that I put myself through,
but that my mother loves you and all of your sisters like you were
her own daughters? If any other woman made that threat to me, it
wouldn’t hold water because my Mama doesn’t trust just any woman,
especially when it comes to where her sons are concerned. But you
Acasia, she would trust every word that came out of your mouth,
exaggerated or not.”
    “ I wouldn’t need to
exaggerate now would I Garett? What can I get for you tonight, now
that you’ve managed to take up so much of my time that you owe me
the tip for two or three tables?”
    “ I will take my usual
beautiful. Pardon me, now that you’ve threatened to tell my mother
on me, I suppose I can’t even call you beautiful now can
I?”
    She rolled her eyes at him
and walked away, glad to be away from him. He really did drive her
nuts, especially when he was doing his best to hide behind the
façade that Gavin had put on so well.
    Gavin had never taken anything
seriously. He certainly hadn’t taken their relationship seriously.
He hadn’t been unfaithful to her, but he had broken up with her out
of nowhere and had never really given her an explanation as to why
he had done so. Then shortly after he had disappeared without a
word to anyone. It had made her think that there had always been
another woman on his mind, even if he hadn’t gone so far as to
actually cheat on her.
    She tried not to let her
mind drift back to the past as she quickly made her way through the
rest of the tables in her section, but it was hard not to. She had
often gotten the feeling that something had happened between Gavin
and Demi before his unexpected departure, and it had always
bothered her. Demi had been more than a little naïve, and had
seemed even younger than her age. It bugged the hell out of Acasia
to think that Gavin had taken advantage of her. Though it was
unlikely to hear her openly admit her adoration, Demi had always
looked up to the eldest Black brother in a way that was almost akin
to hero worship.
    Acasia had been asked one
morning to retrieve Demi’s forgotten homework assignment from her
bedroom and had stumbled across a picture of Gavin. He was smiling
at the person taking the picture in a way that he had never smiled
at her. Acasia had always known that Demi had been the one holding
the camera and that whatever had happened between them, Gavin had
shared something with Demi that he had never shared with
her.
    So her feelings for Garett were made
even more