Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

Author:Yolanda Wallace [Wallace, Yolanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635550825
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2017-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Dakota normally avoided certain parts of Central Park at all costs. Despite its beauty, Bow Bridge was one of those places. The bridge and the surrounding area were gorgeous. There was no denying their obvious appeal. But watching couples mooning over each other as they crossed the bridge or picnicked under a towering tree always made her feel like she was missing out on something.

She had never lacked for female companionship, even when she lived in tiny Richmond Hill instead of sprawling New York City. Each of the women she had slept with had been exciting and unique. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been drawn to them in the first place. Despite their differences, they all had one thing in common: none of them made her want to drop to one knee, pull out a ring, and vow to be faithful to them for the rest of her life.

Then she met Grace Henderson, and everything changed. She wasn’t planning on walking down the aisle anytime soon, but she could already tell one night with Grace wouldn’t be enough. She hadn’t even kissed her yet and she went to sleep with Grace’s image in her head, woke up with Grace’s name on her lips. She had it bad, and that definitely wasn’t good. Grace didn’t date clients and she also wasn’t attracted to women who played down rather than accentuated their femininity. That meant Dakota was 0-for-2. She had only one strike left, and she needed to make it count.

As she waited for Grace to arrive, she watched a gondolier slowly pilot his boat and two cuddling passengers along the lake. Her mind soon wandered from the romantic scene playing out before her to the one she had participated in the night before.

Her date with Grace had been perfect from beginning to end. Well, almost. Ideally, the Braves would have won the game instead of getting blown out, but that was a minor detail that could always be omitted from future recountings of one of the best nights she’d ever had.

She had been so nervous when she had walked out to the mound to throw the first pitch. When she’d felt Grace’s eyes on her, her nerves had disappeared even faster than they’d arrived. “Go out there and pretend no one’s watching,” Grace had said in the tunnel as she talked her through a panic attack. “It’s just you and the catcher.”

When Dakota had turned to face the catcher, she hadn’t noticed the tens of thousands of fans in attendance. She had been aware of only one: Grace. When she had wound up to make the pitch, she would have been satisfied if the ball had ended up in the general vicinity of home plate. Watching the ball smack into the catcher’s glove in the heart of the strike zone was a feeling she thought couldn’t be topped—until she looked into the stands and saw Grace beaming with pride.

“I did that,” she had thought as she walked off the mound. “I put that look on her face.

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