Rebecca's Cove by L. J. Maas

Author:L. J. Maas [Maas, L. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Fiction, General, Gay, Lesbians
ISBN: 9781930928893
Google: YOgCAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1930928890
Publisher: Lightning Source Incorporated
Published: 2003-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Hey, goombah!” Juliana Ross stood in the doorway, her arms filled with paper bags.

“You rat bastard!” Baylor pulled the woman in and hugged her.

Juliana, at five-foot-ten, was nearly as tall as Baylor, but leaner and not quite as muscular. She was an attractive woman with short blond hair, blue eyes, and a smile that easily charmed. Baylor had once told her friend if Brad Pitt had been a woman, he would have been Juliana.

“Hey, mate, you’re crushing my cookies.”

Baylor laughed and released her. She took one of the bags and showed her into the kitchen where they deposited the bags on the table.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Baylor asked.

“Considering that every evening I’ve called in the last few weeks, I’ve received no answer and that I’ve written about twenty e-mails and left eight hundred voice messages on your mobile, I thought I’d fly down, catch some sun, and find out if you were dead or alive.”

“Oh, sorry about that, mate.” Baylor at least had the good manners to look repentant. “I’ve been kind of preoccupied the last couple of weeks.”

Juliana went to the refrigerator and pulled out a bottle of beer. She held it up in invitation.

“Absolutely,” Baylor said.

“Preoccupied, eh? What’s her name?”

“Very funny. What makes you think it’s a girl?”

“Because I’ve known you for over thirty-five years. It’s always a girl with you. What’s her name?”

“Hobie Lynn Allen.”

“The nutter who ran you over?”

“That’s the one. I think I may have been a little, I don’t know, angry at the time. She’s not as much of a lunatic as I initially thought. She’s a nice girl and we’re just friends.”

Baylor wasn’t sure why she felt the need to add the part about being friends. What was it about Juliana that made her feel she had to downplay her feelings for Hobie? She supposed it was because her friend had been along for the ride while she had slept her way through the greater Chicago area. Would she laugh?

Juliana smiled. She had a look on her face that said whenever anyone stressed the fact that they were “just friends,” it usually meant exactly the opposite.

“It ought to be fun meeting her then.”

“Meeting her?” Baylor suddenly looked pale. “Oh, I don’t know if that’s such a good idea.”

“Relax, mate. It’s not like I’m going to try to steal your girlfriend. I just want to meet her.”

“She’s not my girlfriend. I told you—”

“I know, I know. Just friends,” Juliana interrupted Baylor’s objection. “Whatever you say. Hey, don’t you want to open the presents I brought? I figure you must be going through culinary withdrawal by now. You should have seen the looks I got carrying all this on the plane.”

“I wondered what was in there. I thought you were just getting cheap when it came to luggage.”

“Hardy-har-har! How’s that leg?”

“Great.” Baylor pulled open the first bag. “Matter of fact, I may get the cast off this week. Oh, my God!” she exclaimed when she saw the contents. “Cipriani’s angel hair pasta, roasted sweet peppers.

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