February Kisses by Hildred Billings

Author:Hildred Billings [Billings, Hildred]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, series, Writer
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2019-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

HEAVEN

No matter how much she focused on her ledger, Heaven could not balance her numbers to save her life – or her business’s, for that matter. Unfortunately, it was a common enough way for her to spend a Saturday night. A glass of wine, some music playing on the stereo, and a stack of receipts and a copy of Oregon Small Business Law and Regulations to keep her company. Saturday nights in Paradise Valley were quiet enough that a woman could regularly plan to balance her checkbook while rarely reneging on those plans.

Not that night. Heaven’s head was so full of everything but her business, that she guzzled that glass of wine and turned it into two before she remembered what she was doing.

She couldn’t get yesterday out of her mind.

What had compelled her to go to Salama’s? While it was true that it was the slow time of day at the cafe, that didn’t mean it was worth taking Salama’s purchase to her. Why don’t I admit I wanted to see her? Except Heaven had not anticipated seeing a part of Salama she had never noticed before. I wasn’t supposed to notice, now was I? In truth, she looked like any other young woman. Then she let me try on a headscarf, and she was touching me like… All right, that part was in her head. The part about touching her with the hesitation of someone she made nervous. The touch of someone who wanted to be her lover.

She really, really loved touching Heaven’s hair. That much had been evident!

Granted, lots of people liked playing with Heaven’s curls. She normally didn’t mind when she was in the right mood. Wasn’t like she could really feel it, as long as people didn’t yank and twist like some were wont to do. I definitely felt it yesterday. The tenderness. The careful approach. The awe-inspired respect that came with touching another person’s hair. Salama hadn’t thought anything of manipulating another woman’s hair. Yet Heaven had sat there, waiting for something else to happen.

It still drove her insane over twenty-four hours later.

What was going on with her? Before that week, she had never, ever thought of a woman the way she thought of Salama. Why would she pick now, of all times, to start questioning her feelings for women? Where was this back in high school, when gay girls were a dime a dozen, or at least common enough she could’ve openly dated one or two and nobody would have given a damn. Nobody except my parents. While the Mossbergs weren’t outwardly homophobic to their LGBT neighbors, Heaven wasn’t confident that they would openly accept a bisexual daughter. I had Rob, anyway. They had dated off and on through high school, and didn’t make it official until senior year. Still, Heaven always had boys on the brain when she was going through puberty. Then she married one a year after graduating.

She had also divorced him, but not because she suddenly realized her sole attraction to women.

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