A Perfect Fifth by Jaycie Morrison

Author:Jaycie Morrison [Morrison, Jaycie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2022-09-01T22:18:43+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A lovely warmth made Jill sigh as she stirred. She’d never been so comfortable in this room before, even when using an extra blanket. It was still dark, and her deep sleep had been interrupted by an awareness of something uncommon, apart from the temperature. It was obvious she wasn’t on her usual pillow, and then she remembered Zara was with her, and she’d been resting her head on Zara’s shoulder before falling asleep. Now her arm was stretched across Zara’s body as well. She came fully awake upon realizing the uncommon sensation was coming from the weight of Zara’s breast right above her hand. Normally, she would be terribly self-conscious being this close to anyone, let alone in such a personal position, but she couldn’t bring herself to move. Apparently, nothing about her experience with Zara was normal. And thus far, she’d been unable to explain it, even to herself.

For as long as she could remember, she’d had a need to understand things, to figure out the why and how. Now, willing herself to think, she breathed in deeply, catching Zara’s spicy, musky scent. As she did so, her hand contracted slightly around Zara’s breast. She froze, her only thoughts wavering between being mortified at what she’d done and a strange compulsion to do it again.

Zara’s breasts were larger than hers, fuller, attractively so. Many times during the past months, when she should have been studying or working out the design of her project, her memory had unhelpfully supplied images of Zara’s chest filling out her father’s sweater or the way her hips moved in that red dress and always the way her arms and shoulders flexed as she played. Earlier tonight, when Zara had stripped down to her clinging undergarments, Jill had been unable to look away from the shapely line of her hips, and the vision of dark nipples behind the thin material of her undershirt had made her pulse race. Lush was the word that had come into her mind, a term she’d previously ascribed strictly to vegetation. She’d never thought of another woman, or another person, for that matter, in such physical terms. But it wasn’t only that.

After Zara had disappeared, Jill’s world had become very silent—except for the piano music in her dreams—and very cold unless she let thoughts of their kisses warm her. She’d been desperate to see her again, and she’d told herself at first it was to thank her for what she’d done. She owed Zara so much, but she’d finally admitted that wanting to spend time with her again was also to explore whatever was between them.

When her father had finally uncovered Zara’s whereabouts and had convinced her Zara was safe and recovering, she’d worked to ignore the rejection she’d felt, striving to fill the emptiness with Constance and Nelson’s happiness. At their earnest request, she’d agreed to patch things up with Clive, acknowledging that her anger at his carelessness had been dulled by Zara’s continued absence, as had most of her other emotions.

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