Saving Love: A LesbianSapphic Medical Romance by Grace Parkes

Author:Grace Parkes [Parkes, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

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BETTE

Bette pressed her palms against the edge of the sink, fingers curling over the worn wood as if she could physically hold herself together. What the hell had she been thinking kissing—okay, they’d done more than just that—Emily Sharp in the back garden of the Vesper Cover Hotel?

Oh right, she hadn’t. That was the problem.

She had let herself slip. Let those feelings, her loneliness, and her absolute lack of common sense override every rational bone in her body. She, Betty Bridge, senior physical therapist, walking textbook of restraint, had gone and done the one thing she swore she would never do; she’d slept with a colleague, a patient, a woman who had somehow crawled under her skin and refused to leave.

Bette sighed loudly, staring out at the Torrey Pines swaying lazily in the late morning breeze. It had been so easy, too easy, to let herself slip into the moment, to pretend, just for a few stolen hours, that she was someone else—someone who wasn’t still nursing the wounds of a bitter divorce, who could laugh and tease and flirt without feeling like a weight was sitting on her chest. Someone who didn’t know exactly how this kind of thing ended.

But she did know.

That was exactly how Bette had gotten burned before. She’d let Reba in, allowed the woman to take up house in her heart, and at the same time let her ex-wife destroy the life she’d built, the one she’d thought, she would have forever.

Bette stood at the kitchen sink, rinsing out her coffee mug. The water ran too hot over her fingers, but she didn’t pull away. She just stood there, jaw tight, watching the swirl of coffee and soap disappear down the drain.

Last night was a complete lapse in judgment. She would not—could not—let it happen again.

Her stomach twisted uncomfortably and even though she hated it, there was that soft hum between her legs, that light throb in her clit that told her what she already knew; if the opportunity came, she’d probably sleep with her.

Wanted so badly to sleep with her.

That was why it was so important to fix what she had broken. She just had to. The distance between her and Emily had blurred, but what if she could redraw those lines? What if she could reinforce them?

The alternative was inconceivable, something she did not even want to think about—letting herself feel something again.

Bette just wasn’t sure she could survive that. She squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for those specks of dust to fill up her vision and take over the image of Emily burned in her brain. Emily following her through the crowd. Emily’s surprise when Bette had first kissed her. Emily pushed up against that stone wall, that silky dress hitched to her hips, her panties lying pooled at her feet, the heat of her folds wet against Bette’s mouth…

“UGH!” she moaned, snapping open her eyes to stare out the window.

Outside, the late morning sun stretched over the tiny garden, dappling the soil in soft gold.

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