French Kissing: Season One by Harper Bliss

Author:Harper Bliss [Bliss, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ladylit
Published: 2014-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

NADIA

Nadia booked herself on an earlier flight back to Paris. She’d had enough of her solo Barcelona experience. All she wanted was to go home—not to her temporary guest room at Margot’s, but to her and Juliette’s home. Maybe she believed it because she desperately wanted to, but she was convinced that beneath the person Juliette had become—Nadia had let her become—the woman she had met ten years ago was in hiding, waiting for her moment to shine again.

Only now, after re-visiting a small but vital piece of their past, did Nadia fully understand how much her sleeping with another woman had hurt Juliette—despite the reasons why and all the other repercussions.

Nadia had claimed another as her own, thus discarding Juliette completely because the one thing that they’d always shared, no matter what, was that connection, that deep understanding of one another, in the bedroom.

Juliette had tried to tell her several times and Nadia had been the one who had refused to listen. She’d told her when she was practically begging her to move back in—“This is who we are, babe,” she had said—and she’d told her again after Nadia had confessed to her dalliance with the consultant. Because in their relationship, in matters like this, Nadia was in charge. And when Nadia cheated, she might as well have said that it was all over. Not worth even bothering anymore. Dead.

Nadia had been too angry with Juliette to see. This new version of Juliette who, with the passing of time and the negligence that comes with taking each other for granted for too long, had morphed into someone Nadia hadn’t particularly liked anymore.

Nadia had let her slip. She’d disturbed the delicate balance of their relationship, unknowingly assuming that years spent together equalled change. Some things would never change, like Juliette’s need for her. Nadia couldn’t possibly hold that against her, despite having done so for the past year. It was the main reason why they were together, the thing that linked them more than any other.

Nadia knew this now and, in that respect, despite having been incredibly lonely, this trip had served a purpose. She was going to get her woman back.

When the flight attendant offered her a glass of champagne, Nadia refused, wanting to keep a clear head. When she landed in Paris, four hours earlier than the flight Juliette had booked for the two of them, she inhaled the summer air, confident, for the first time in weeks, that with patience and the acceptance of some hard truths, she could convince Juliette to give their relationship the clean slate it needed—and deserved.

* * *

It still felt strange to ring the bell to the apartment that half of her own money had bought, but Nadia could hardly use her key and walk in as if everything was normal. She didn’t even know if Juliette was home, but she heard stumbling noises on the other side of the door soon enough after the bell had chimed. It took a while before Juliette opened the door to a crack.

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