Secrets and Shadows by L T Marie

Author:L T Marie [Marie, L T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781602827561
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-06-18T03:00:00+00:00

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Lee scanned the garden. She looked anywhere but directly at Jo, knowing she’d see disappointment in her eyes. She’d hated to walk away from their dance, but having Jo in her arms made her forget there were others in the room. Made her forget everything. And that put Jo’s safety, as well as her own sanity, at risk.

As she continually scanned the thinning crowd a woman from earlier caught her attention. This particular woman had stolen quick glances at Jo all evening but seemed unwilling to approach. Lee had recognized her from earlier as Charlene Avery, a close personal friend of Chance Dillingham, the bass player for Total Femme. As they stood a room apart, Jo’s eyes fell upon the tall blonde as she nursed a drink at the bar, and she scanned the woman in the Versace tux from head to toe. Jo smiled at the woman, giving her the go-ahead to come over. Lee’s insides plummeted and her jaw ached from clenching it so tight.

The woman approached Jo and offered her arm. Jo accepted it as they left the backyard and slowly moved up the spiral staircase with Lee not far behind. As they opened the balcony doors leading out onto the veranda, Lee didn’t follow, in an attempt to offer them privacy. She stayed just outside the door, far enough to not be able to eavesdrop on their conversation but close enough in case something should happen. She could hear their distinct voices, one of them unmistakably Jo’s sultry alto. Her heart faltered as Jo’s voice changed pitch and became even deeper, sexier.

Lee looked over her shoulder and watched as Jo wrapped her arms around the taller woman’s neck. She had her head thrown back and Charlene was kissing along her jaw. When Jo angled her head to accept the offered kiss, Lee rocked backward onto her heels as if she’d been struck and the breath flew from her chest.

A wave of dizziness caused Lee to brace against the doorway as her world spiraled out of control. The vision of Jo wrapped up in someone else’s arms was almost too much for her to handle. She revisited her conversation in Jo’s bedroom a few weeks earlier, the term private settings making her gut clench as if someone was removing her stomach with a spoon. Normally, seeing two women in a passionate embrace would have been a turn-on. But that was before Jo, before she had these feelings she couldn’t compartmentalize. Before now, she’d never contemplated how she’d feel seeing Jo in the arms of another woman. The reality was so much worse than she could have ever envisioned.

Her clenched fists were starting to lose feeling, and her legs were so wobbly she wasn’t sure how much longer she could stand. Not able to endure the torture any longer, she took up a post just outside the door where it was impossible to see them, trying with everything in her to erase the images of Jo in that woman’s embrace.

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