Kingston Beginning's (Final Kingston Series Book)

Chapter 37

Seventeen Years Later

**(Edited)**

Grace's POV

This morning I'm a crying mess. Tanner is only hours away from leaving for good and I can't take it. I know he'll never live here again once he's gone and I just can't see him leave at eighteen and know he's okay.

"Honey" Beau tries to comfort me as I sit on our bed crying. Tanner's my first one that is going to college and I can't handle it.

We're in our home. The home Beau built on the land that we used to go swimming at. It was our place years ago we'd come swimming at almost every weekend while in college. It's quiet, and it's where we grew into a couple. It's still in the town we grew up at, and he bought it off of his dads real estate. Beau doesn't speak to his father anymore, his dad just sends the kids money for their Christmas gifts and birthdays and Beau checks for his birthday. But the checks are ripped up and thrown into our trash just like every time we see his name on anything that isn't for the kids. But I loved this land when we decided to come back to Alabama, so we bought it and built our dream home. That with a big backyard and front yard for the kids, along with the beautiful pond an acre away.

After moving back to Alabama a few years ago, Beau still plays football occasionally when a fill in is needed for practices or whatever, but raising a family was important to us. So he took a job coaching at the high school level and he's already brought Tanner's team to the state championship every year he's been there. When he coached the border bowl with our sons, and Sage cheering I cried my eyes out. I was so happy at what I managed to create with the man I love. But Tanner's so damn good he got offered a spot for Alabama College as the starting quarterback and I couldn't be prouder of him. He's just like Beau, everything about him down to the fact that he's going to be the only freshman starting quarterback in the whole country.

"Beau what if he never comes back?" I ask him as he moves over to me and holds me into his big chest. Beau's my rock, and he knows exactly how to calm me down. After how long we've been married, comforting him and him comforting me is just our way of coping. So now. I'm sitting on our bed fully dressed in my Alabama gear thinking I could handle today and I can't.

"Grace he's got a good head on his shoulders. He's going to be fine, and you know he's always been a mama's boy so he'll be coming back. Probably around thanksgiving, which isn't so bad baby. He'll be fine, and he knows I'll murder him if he doesn't come back." he tells me rubbing my back in his hands.

"Okay" I whisper as he kisses my forehead. "Just think about it baby, he'll be gone, Sage is at camp and the boys spend most of their time with their group of guys. We'll be alone and you know what that means." he tells me as I automatically blush. One thing that's never changed is our sex life, I love Beau and having sex with him is natural. He's been my husband forever, and I love him.

"Beau stop." I tell him laughing as he pinches the side of my behind.

"I'm nervous for him." I tell him as he smiles at me. "He's an hour away Grace." He tells me as I sigh. He's right, it's not that bad.

"I know. I'm just-, he's my baby." I tell him as he laughs at me. "Before or after you found the condoms." He tells me as I slap his arm. I found condoms in all the boys rooms and I wanted to hide under a rock I was embarrassed.

"He's a grown man. He's fine baby. Now come on, his coach called me and we need to get him up. Lazy ass." He tells me kissing my lips before he pulls me out of the room and to the stairs. I wipe my tears and  cover them as best as I can as we make it to Tanner's bedroom door.

"Hey bro you ready to leave?" Beau asks him as I stand by the door. Sage's little Yorkie, Tiny comes into the room and jumps on the bed as she snuggles into Tanner's neck and licks all over his face. He will never admit but he actually loves that dog. Diesel died years ago, but Tanner grew up with him and he loved him as well.