November Rains by Hildred Billings

Author:Hildred Billings [Billings, Hildred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lesbian Romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2019-11-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

ELAINE

Two things rattled Elaine as she came off a decent weekend. Or, at least, it was more decent than she originally expected.

First was the reviewer, who seemed to enjoy her stay at Tea & Thyme, but Elaine could never be too sure. For all I know, she faked enthusiasm the whole time. Like a bad date. Boy, Elaine had seen her fair share of those over the years. Girls – and women, sigh – who couldn’t hold interest in her for more than two seconds. Sometimes, it was the ones who tried a little too hard that freaked her out the most. For all she knew, they were hiding disdain like one might hide a smoking gun beneath their trench coat.

The second thing was Frankie. Who wasn’t a thing at all. All right, so neither was that reviewer! Elaine had gone to bed that night with a pillow smashed against the side of her head, hoping that she could somehow squeeze out both the reviewer and Frankie.

She didn’t know what it was about Frankie that rattled her so much. She wasn’t intimidated by the older woman, who had been nothing but helpful in the few interactions she and Elaine had. Nor was she worried that Frankie didn’t like her since… well, why wouldn’t she? Frankie didn’t have to love Elaine, but Elaine had given Frankie no reason to be annoyed with her. If anything, the way she had complimented the cookies before leaving with her brother had implied she wished for nothing more than Elaine to succeed at her business.

What has me all topsy turvy is her… well, her!

Frankie had a certain air about her that made Elaine look twice. She was confident. She was successful, since any woman who kept her business afloat after several years had to be successful. She had a nice relationship with her brother, who had to be a whole generation younger than her, if Elaine could believe it. I asked around and… yeah, that’s definitely not her son. There was a story there, though. If Dominic was Frankie’s half-brother, it would make more sense. Sounded like a father who remarried someone who wanted a kid of their own. `

Not that Elaine was nosy about that…

Elaine had met many striking women in her life. Most of them wanted nothing to do with her, since she didn’t fit neatly into any boxes besides, well, ahem. Most of the women she was attracted to, however, were either straight or wanted someone so femme that Elaine didn’t score a chance in hell. She often lamented that she wanted the unobtainable women. The ones who either didn’t want her at all, or the ones that asked her to be someone she wasn’t. I may not be a stone cold stud, but I’m far from an uber-femme. Since when did the middle-ground alienate so many people? Wasn’t it 2019?

Soon to be 2020… which meant the end of the first tax quarter.

Maybe I have a bit of a crush on her…

There was only one person she could talk to about this.

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