Best Lesbian Romance 2009 by Radclyffe

Author:Radclyffe
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2010-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning, Madame handed her a folded slip of paper and a heavy key. “If you wish to see me again, come to this address a year from now. Let yourself in through the gate in the wall, and wait for me in the garden.”

“A year? Why can we not see each other sooner?”

“Because the world is about to change, and we cannot make plans. The best we can do is try to keep a promise.”

“I’ll come on my birthday,” Eloise said, imagining how special and perfect that would make the day. She looked down at the address: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Across the top of the card, a name was printed in plain black letters: Lady Sylvia Devon.

“It’s a villa I have in the mountains,” Madame explained as Eloise confounded herself, trying to accept that she had not only been relieved of her virginity on a floating train by a woman wearing men’s clothing, but that the woman was also a British aristocrat. Such thrilling misadventure was the type of thing that could only happen abroad.

“Of course you are welcome to visit any other time,” Madame continued, “but I may not be there. I shall see to it that the servants know who you are.” A film of tears spiked her lashes and made her eyes even more eloquent in their beauty.

“What’s wrong?” Eloise asked.

“I believe I’m afraid. Most unlike me.”

“What are you afraid of?”

“Honestly?” Madame seemed momentarily bemused. “That I’ll never see you again.”

“Oh, but you will. I promise. I’ll be there on the first of September next year.” Eloise hoped her sincerity showed in her eyes, but she sensed a quiet, inexplicable sorrow in her companion.

They held one another, and Madame placed her lips to Eloise’s forehead. “Whatever happens, be careful, my beautiful girl. Go back to America soon.”

The last time Eloise saw her, she was striding through a sea of people, across the cavernous, arched hall of the Gard du Nord, followed by a stringy little man dragging her luggage on a cart. She looked back once, blew Eloise a kiss, and walked out of her life.

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