Comfort and Joy by Karin Kallmaker

Author:Karin Kallmaker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbian romance, returning soldier, holiday novella, new adult, women lovers, Christmas, wlw romance
Publisher: Karin Kallmaker
Published: 2015-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“I really enjoyed that,” Tyna said as she picked up the empty popcorn bucket.

Milla collected the Twizzler wrapper and empty tanker cup that had held diet soda. “So did I. I can’t believe it’ll be a year before we see part two.”

Looking over her shoulder, Tyna said, “Would you like to make a date now?”

The question caught Milla off-guard. True, when they’d met in front of the theater earlier in the evening, they’d shared an awkward but definitely fervent hug. But exactly how much would she be revealing if she let out the “Yes” clamped behind her teeth?

Tyna reached the bottom of the theater steps in the slow-moving exit queue and once again looked back over her shoulder. “You should see your face right now. You’d think I had just proposed marriage.”

Milla blushed so furiously she felt the heat on the back of her neck. She was hot other places, but that had persisted from the moment she’d seen Tyna wrapped up in her wool coat with that improbable red cap hiding her curls.

The silence grew increasingly awkward as they left the theater. The sharp wind provided a partial excuse. Milla wrapped her muffler around her neck and ears and Tyna pulled her cap down more firmly. Ice on the sidewalk required them to step carefully.

She felt like a horny teenager because it was hard to keep her thoughts from imagining the soft skin on Tyna’s shoulders, the swell of her breasts and the sweetness of her kisses. She wanted to believe it was because it had been a really long time since she’d sat next to an eligible woman for two and a half hours, let alone done anything more intimate than that. Lust was safe, predictable even. Lust could be overcome. She’d done it before and could do it again.

Scarier thoughts, like the welcome way her heart had seemed to skip in her chest when she’d seen Tyna dashing through the icy rain — thoughts like that couldn’t be given any space to breed. She had to report for duty in a couple of weeks. She could handle a holiday hook-up. Except it didn’t feel like a holiday hook-up. There was more than lust in her thoughts, like how nice it was to talk to someone who didn’t have to listen, but seemed to want to. Like how Tyna’s teasing air touched something deep inside her that was located below her brain and above her waist that wasn’t used to feeling warm.

She wasn’t opposed to that feeling, not at all. She liked it. But when she shipped out again what chance did it have to survive? She’d seen what separation did to her buddies — men and women who were madly in love with their wives and husbands and still couldn’t keep true. Death hung over all of them, or the idea that when you got home, it was far from in one piece.

They reached Tyna’s car, a good condition but at least ten-year-old Volvo. The weather was too foul to window shop the way they had yesterday and yet she didn’t want to say good night.

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