Cause and Affection by Sheryl Wright

Author:Sheryl Wright [Wright, Sheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594936050
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2019-06-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Grand Junction, Colorado was the last place Madeleine expected to find herself on a Saturday night. It certainly didn’t fit with the week she had just enjoyed. Enjoyed? Yes, she’d enjoyed it more than she imagined possible. She also hadn’t imagined spending the last eight hours driving and thinking about Kara, the whole experience. She was tempted to drive all night and into the next day just to reach Minneapolis, but the thought of another fourteen or fifteen hours behind the wheel with nothing on her mind but Kara Wexler was too much.

It was just after eleven p.m. when she checked into the Holiday Inn Express. She tossed her backpack on one of the beds, kicking off her boots and grabbing the remote. She needed a distraction. She needed to find something, anything, to keep her mind occupied. Except some part of her didn’t want to be distracted from her thoughts of Kara. She wanted to be mad at her, hate her, but nothing could override the single emotion tumbling around inside her. Maybe it was better to quantify the emotions than trying to stuff them down. Grabbing pillows from the other bed, she stacked them up against the headboard and settled in to watch some TV. Maybe a little mindless sitcom was exactly what she needed to settle down. She knew she was kidding herself as she clicked from channel to channel, watching a minute or two from shows she’d seen or movies she knew. When she stopped at the latest Jack Ryan adventure, she realized she had been gawking at Keira Knightley. She remembered the first time she’d seen this flick. She and a long forgotten boyfriend had caught the midnight show after one of the lame chorus line performances she’d grown to hate.

“It’s natural to want more,” she remembered Kara telling her as they discussed her career. Of course, the career they were discussing was the fake cover story that Madeleine was an event planner for a convention operator. She couldn’t hold back the sigh of regret. The one person she felt she could open up with was the one person who knew diddly-squat about her real life. What have I done?

On the screen, Knightley played her role alongside movie partner Chris Pine. The first time she watched this, she’d had focused on Pine and his performance as Jack Ryan. This time, she couldn’t take her eyes off the new Cathy Ryan. Had she noticed her classic beauty the first time she watched this? Had she noticed Knightley in the little black dress? The truth was, before Kara, she never spent much time looking at women. She’d always checked out the other women in the chorus line, but that was a competition thing, who’s taller, who’s better looking, who’s the best dancer? Yet, in all that time, had she ever considered women as other sexual beings? Of course she’d thought about lesbian relationships. What woman hadn’t? Like all straight women she thought lesbians had it made.

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