Just a Touch Away by Jae

Author:Jae
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lesbian fiction
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2022-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Winter wasn’t sure how exactly it happened, but the next weekend, she found herself on the couch, fiddling with the SEO keywords for Hannah’s website on her laptop, instead of working in her office.

She knew search engine optimization was a long game, but she was getting uncharacteristically impatient. It had been six days since the website had gone live, and still no new cuddle clients had resulted from it, only an email from a guy who asked if Hannah did naked cuddling.

Asshole. Winter clenched her teeth.

“You okay?” Hannah glanced up from where she was binge-watching a Netflix show while also going over what she called her cuddle diaries—notes she had taken after every cuddle session—to look for former clients she could contact with a twenty-percent-off offer.

Winter gave a curt nod. “Peachy.”

The same probably couldn’t be said for Hannah’s bank account, now that she wasn’t working for Snuggle Experts anymore. Should she ask her how she was doing for money?

But what if Hannah confirmed she was running low on cash? She wasn’t considering loaning her money, was she? Hannah’s finances weren’t her responsibility. “Friendship stops at money,” Julian had once quoted his Swiss grandfather, and it was one of only a handful of his many words of wisdom she agreed with. Besides, she still hadn’t decided if she considered Hannah a friend.

Paper rustled as Hannah continued to flip through the pages of her cuddle diary. Three more thick notebooks sat on the coffee table.

That was a lot of notes. What was there to say other than May 15: Spooned John Smith for an hour?

Then another thought occurred to Winter. Were there entries for Julian’s cuddle sessions too…and for her own? If so, what had Hannah written?

Winter told herself she didn’t care what Hannah had written about her. Shouldn’t care. But deep down, she knew she did. That failed cuddle session still gnawed at her. She wasn’t used to failing. In all other areas of her life, she refused to give up and tried as many times as it took to finally succeed.

In a way, she had tried again with cuddling too. But volunteering for the Lap of Luxury during the photo shoot hadn’t left her with a feeling of triumph. The experience had achieved only one thing: leaving her more unsettled than ever. She could no longer dismiss snuggling as something she had no interest in mastering because it left her cold. Any time she thought about it, she could still feel Hannah’s fingertips sliding along her temples and caressing her ear. The vividness of that memory robbed her of breath, sometimes with pleasure, other times with panic, most often with a mix of both.

The scent of mint drifted over as Hannah pulled her potty-going squirrel infuser out of her mug and placed it on a small plate.

It was a welcome distraction from all this damn introspection. Winter fixed a smirk on her face and opened her mouth.

“Don’t say it.” Hannah didn’t even glance her way.

“Say what?” Winter asked in her best innocent tone.

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