Curve by Carrie Brennan

Curve by Carrie Brennan

Author:Carrie Brennan [Brennan, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Lesbian, Gay, Lesbians
ISBN: 9781932300413
Google: BEEgAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1932300414
Publisher: Yellow Rose by RCE
Published: 2005-06-30T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter Ten

ANNE STARED AT her notes and sucked on her pen, a habit that often resulted in some nasty ink accidents that she tried to forget. She reached to the bookshelf to check a reference, grunting as she pulled down the huge book.

Why can't they make law books smaller? she mused for the millionth time in her life. Do they really think it impresses people? And who are 'they' anyway? She pictured a room full of old, fat white men making up all the rules for society.

"Lawyers must have huge leather-bound tomes with new editions every year!" one crotchety old man shouted in Anne's fantasy boardroom.

"Women shall not be considered dressed up unless they're wearing uncomfortable hosiery and torturous shoes!" another man announced.

"Christmas decorations must be displayed the day after Halloween and not removed until Valentine's Day!"

"Christmas!" Anne cried, panic dissolving her fantasy. "What the hell am I going to get Maggie for Christmas?" It was almost Thanksgiving, certainly not too early to begin thinking about this most important of questions. She sucked more frantically on her pen as she thought and then rejected idea after idea.

"Hey, babe, am I interrupting a special moment between you and your pen?" Maggie smiled as she walked through the door, carrying a plastic bag out of which drifted some wonderful smells.

"Hi! What are you doing here?" Anne grinned. They'd only been living together for a few days, but Anne found that being around Maggie left her wanting even more. Seeing her lover's smiling face was a wonderful surprise.

"You've been working too hard and skipping lunch." Maggie held her hand up as Anne began to protest. "Oh, no, don't you dare try to deny it. I have my spies."

"Mom." Anne growled.

"Yes, and everyone else in this office that loves you. Anyway, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I'm a proactive kind of girl, you know."

"And that's why I love you." Anne cleared a space on her desk for the food.

"Of course it is." Maggie put the plastic bag down and pulled out the little white cardboard containers. "So I told Moocher to get her own lunch. I had to go on a mission of mercy."

"Thank you," Anne said as she ripped the paper off a pair of chopsticks and dug into a container of tofu and bok choy. "I guess you can be my girlfriend for a little while longer."

"Thank God! I was getting really worried about that." Maggie bit into a spring roll.

Anne and Maggie ate for a few minutes, making small talk, enjoying each other and their food. Their threesome was interrupted by a knock on the office doorframe.

"Anne? Sorry to interrupt." Julie, one of the two paralegals in the firm, looked into the office hesitantly. "There's a woman here who says she needs to talk to you. Said it's urgent."

"Tell her Anne's having her lunch." Maggie replied before Anne had a chance to swallow her bite of vegetable kung pao.

Anne smiled at Maggie's protective streak. Her lover had almost growled.



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