Forgiving Nancy (Last Hangman MC, #5)(87)

“Are we there yet?” I elbow him gently making him chuckle.

“Almost.” He kisses my head and we stop a few minutes later. He removes the blindfold and it takes a minute for my eyes to adjust to the brightness. What I see is straight out of a romance book. Picnic by the lake in our spot…our spot? Oh. My. God!

“I can’t believe you brought me here!” I beam and take in everything. A blanket is laid out by a tree with a couple of gift boxes and a basket with what I’m guessing is food inside. “Did you do all this?” I grin widely.

“Yes, who else do you think did?” He chuckles, wrapping his arms around me from behind. “Happy Birthday Sweet Cheeks,” he whispers in my ear and places a small kiss behind it, causing me to shiver.

“Thank you, you have no idea how much this means to me,” I whisper back, not wanting to end the moment. He will never know how much this all means to me.

“I think I do.” He turns me around and looks into my eyes. “You mean the world to me Sweet Cheeks, as long as you are happy that’s all that matters to me.” He brushes his lips on the corner of my mouth. I let out a shaky breath. I’m totally speechless.

It takes me a moment to get my voice back. This man is out to kill me I swear! “Come on, let’s open your gifts.” He tugs me gently and helps me down on the blanket.

“What is it?” I giggle excited.

“You have zero patience.” He chuckles.

“Well what can I say, you give good gifts. There’s not a single one that I haven’t loved the shit out of.”

“Ah you just say that.” He shrugs softly but I know that he loves seeing me open his gifts. He always looks at me intently, wanting to catch that glimpse of pure happiness when I find out what he gave me. I noticed it a couple of years ago and now I always make sure I catch a glimpse of his face when I open my presents. He really does give the best presents and not just to me. He is always so thoughtful.

“We both know that’s not true.” I stick my tongue out.

“Whatever.” He chuckles and hands me the two big packages. “Come on, open them up.”

I start opening the first one and smile wide when I see a pair of biker boots that I’d been eying for a long time but were totally out of my price range.

“Oh my God you didn’t!” I squeal and tackle him to the ground hugging him and kissing his cheek over and over. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

“You’re welcome Sweet Cheeks.” He grins chuckling. “I saw you trying to will them to magically appear on your feet at the store a couple of months ago.”

“You know me too well.” I giggle sitting up to try them on. “They look amazing!”

“They do.” He winks at me. “Open the second one.” He bites his lip making my heart race. Seriously there’s nothing sexier than a hot badass biker acting cute to make your heart melt, and mine is currently in a puddle.

“Alright, alright, you’re spoiling me now!” I slowly open the second one and my jaw drops seeing a customized helmet. “It’s beautiful,” I whisper as I admire it, I can tell that he designed it himself, it has a sugar skull with roses on each side with butterflies flying from the roses and under the skull is with my nickname ’Sweet Cheeks’ in tattoo script. “I love it!” I look up at him, tears in my eyes. I can’t help it, I’m so touched by the gift.

“Awe, don’t cry Sweet Cheeks. I didn’t mean to make you cry, especially not on your birthday.” He wipes my tears and wraps his arms around me cuddling me to him.

“They’re happy tears. It’s beautiful Ant, thank you so much. Best birthday ever.” I sigh happily.

“Nah, the best one was probably your sixth birthday. Remember when your dad got that slip and slide and we ended up completely covered in mud by the end of the day. They had to hose us down before letting us inside the house,” he says very seriously and we both burst out laughing.

“You’re right, but this one is right behind that one.” I giggle and we start eating the food he got us from our favorite Chinese restaurant. “You know me so well.” I grin biting into a spring roll.

“That’s what happens when you spend every single day for the past eighteen years with the same person.” He smiles sweetly and brushes a strand of hair behind my ear. I can’t help leaning into his hand.

“True.” I nibble my lip and wipe off some sweet and sour sauce he has on the corner of his mouth and then lick my finger.

“You have no idea what you’re doing to me Sweet Cheeks,” he whispers, sighing softly rubbing his face.

“What do you mean?” I set down the food container and chopsticks.

“Nothing… I just…” He sighs, clearly frustrated by something. He gets up and walks closer to the lake. I follow him and press myself into his side.

“What’s wrong Ant?” He turns and looks down at me, stroking my cheek with the back of his knuckles.

“Nothing is wrong Sweet Cheeks.” He takes a deep breath, “I might be making the biggest mistake of my life right now and might lose you forever, but I just can’t keep it to myself anymore. I know we are young and have our entire life in front of us, but I know my feelings for you are real. I can’t help it. I know I’ve dated a couple of girls but they have meant nothing to me. You’ve always meant so much more to me than any of them, they didn’t compare to you but I couldn’t risk ruining our friendship Ayd and tell you how I really feel for you. You probably don’t feel for me the same way but I love you Ayden.” He looks into my eyes and I can see the sincerity in his and his voice. I’m shocked into silence, on the inside I’m doing cartwheels, I can’t believe what he has just admitted and I couldn’t be happier. “S-say something please,” he whispers.