Her Collateral Bride: A Lesbian Age Gap Romance by Alexa Woods

Author:Alexa Woods [Woods, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Haley

“That’s not anything I recognize.”

Her hands stilled on the keys. The room went silent except for the cadence of her harsh breathing. Claire’s hand slipped from her shoulder and tiptoed to her neck. She pinned Haley to the bench, her fingers wrapped around her throat lightly.

“I’m sorry if I kept you awake. I know it’s late,” Haley whispered. Her throat bobbed against Claire’s hand. She turned her face as Claire stepped out from behind her, walking to the side of the bench. She adjusted her hand on Haley’s throat, releasing her, but tipping her chin up further. Haley stared at the gorgeous goddess in black, utterly hypnotized by her regal bearing. “Someone will see us,” she said, a defense she didn’t want against a woman that she so desperately did.

“What does it matter? This is my house. I have many secrets, but you aren’t one of them.”

Haley’s heart sank. I’ll never be one of them. I want to be one of them.

“I allowed you to scream last time. To make as much noise as you want. I didn’t command you to be silent.” Claire leaned against the piano’s keys without actually sitting on them, so that they didn’t make a sound. Her finger smoothed over Haley’s bottom lip. She didn’t realize it was wobbling until Claire’s touch steadied her. “No one in this house will judge us or tattle on us. You’re not my secret while you’re here, but you know that there isn’t an us out there.”

Haley let her guard down. She knew better than to trust Claire, but she wanted to. When they were together, she forgot about everything else. That was a problem, but with her so close, it was a struggle to remember why. Her body relaxed, melting back into the bench, lulled by the expression on Claire’s face, which was far from open, but not closed off like she usually was either.

As if she was pleased, Claire stroked Haley’s hair. She finally took a strand between her fingers and caressed it all the way to the end before she let it fall back. Haley found herself leaning closer, every passing second making her breathing more ragged. She leaned into Claire’s aura, inhaling the clear, clean scent of her. She wanted to stand, to wrap her arms around Claire and pull her close. To touch her, finally, at last. To prop her up on the piano and do as many wickedly wonderful things to her as she’d done.

Claire was too fast. She shoved away from the keys and walked around the bench, behind Haley again, where she couldn’t see her. She deprived her of her beauty, but not of her scent. She leaned in, all heat and sweet perfume, and whispered in Haley’s ear.

“Play for me, darling. Play what you were playing. Was that your own?”

“Y-yes,” Haley admitted. She hadn’t played it for anyone before. She hadn’t thought Claire would be listening, and that if she was, she’d realize it was something she’d never heard before.

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