Free Watch What Burns by Kirsty-Anne Still Page B

her a kiss, launched up from his spot and sprinted to the gang before her. She watched him tickle Gracie before picking her up and threatening to throw her into the water. She squealed out in terrified delight. She screamed to her father to stop, but laughed away as he  continued to threaten to throw her into the shallow waters.
    “Hey Aussie Mozzie,” Sienna said, as she ran towards her sister and literally dropped to sit beside her. “So,” she began and just looked to Austin. “What happened?”
    “Diane told Natasha about Grace,” Austin admitted and sighed. “Even took a photo.”
    Immediately, Sienna’s expression darkened. “She did what now? I swear I have the right mind to go and give her a little visit.”
    Austin let out a mini laugh of irony at her sister’s response - only Sienna. “What’s that going to change? She knows how I feel about it, how Tyler does too. She said she was going to go and see Natasha again and tell her to leave us alone, and Tyler is going to look at restricting her rights for sending things.”
    “It’s under control then?” Sienna asked, knowing that she couldn’t just fly off the handle.
    Austin nodded at her sister. “Nothing is going to threaten this life.”
    “You’ve come a long way, Aus,” Sienna spoke with light enthusiasm. “I’m proud of you. For everything you’ve overcome.”
    “I have my moments,” Austin teased back, knowing that at times she could still be the weakest of beings if the moment fell too heavily.
    “Right,” Sienna suddenly struck up, slapping her hands onto her thighs. “We brought food so I’m going to run to the car and grab it.”
    “Sure you don’t want to see how this is going to end?” Austin asked, extending an arm out to watch Tyler and Tom wrestling in the water, Cassie holding onto Grace as they watched as a giggling mess with Dean and Danny. Suddenly Tyler managed to push Tom a little harder, sending him flying into the water, landing back first with a massive splash.
    “Now I’ve seen it I can go off happy,” Sienna joked and got up. “I’ll be back in a minute or two.”
    “Okay,” Austin replied back, her tone full of mirth at the sight before her, and it was obvious that no one wanted to leave her be today. It was what she loved, when she needed space she was granted it, but at dire times like these, there was always someone to keep her standing.
    Tyler ran back to his wife and literally threw himself down next to her, not caring that he was little wet. “You seem a lot less stressed right now, Sunny. If all I needed to do was disappear for three minutes, wrestle around and drunk Tom, I would have tried that sooner!”
    “I am less stressed, and yeah, you should’ve,” she responded with optimism, her tone mirthful over what she had just witnessed. “I’m not worried anymore, Ty,” she murmured, looking at him with a small smile. “This is ours. No one but us dictate that. I know that’s the God’s honest truth, and it’s all I’ll ever believe in.”
    Tyler’s eyebrows shot up in surprise as he heard the sudden change in his wife. “Oh, and why’s that?”
    “I would fight with all I had to keep this life,” Austin said, resting her chin to Tyler’s shoulder. “This is mine for keeps.”
    Nodding slightly in satisfaction, Tyler relented to that comment. “ Right back atcha ,” Tyler whispered at his wife, leaning into the seal the promise with a kiss.

Chapter Eight
     
     
     
    “YOU cold, baby?” Tyler asked as he felt Austin give in to a shudder. He looked to her, and didn’t need her verbal answer. “I’m going to run to the SUV and grab a jacket or something.”
    As he went to push himself up from the sandy bank, Austin put her hand out to prevent him leaving. “No,” Austin stopped him, pulling him back down. “I’ll go,” she told him, leaning against him once more to steal some of his body heat. “I’ll go in a moment,” she whispered as his arm came around her