Thirteen Hours by Meghan O'Brien

Author:Meghan O'Brien [O'Brien, Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Lesbian, Contemporary, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781602820142
Google: R0pNcrHw0BYC
Amazon: 1602820147
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2008-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

THE DATE

Laurel flitted around her apartment nervously, feeling more like a teenager trying to get ready for the prom than the cool, confident woman she prided herself on being. She was still in her bra and panties, having tried on and discarded at least a half dozen outfits in the past thirty minutes. Isis sat on the bed, full of feline gravitas, watching her descend into full panic mode. The thought of seeing Dana again had her mood swinging crazily from sharp anticipation to guttwisting fear that their time together was a fluke.

Their weekend had been perfect. Hands-down, without-a-doubt perfect. If she could, Laurel would have chosen never to leave Dana’s apartment, to stay forever in the fantasy world they’d created. For an entire weekend, only the two of them existed. The sex was a revelation, the companionship even more so.

But now they were back to the real world, and Laurel had no idea if they could pick up where they left off. She stopped in front of the mirror on her closet and looked at the anxiety written all over her face.

Nothing so wonderful could last. After two relationships, one of them serious enough to have left her brokenhearted when it failed, Laurel knew one, inalienable fact: Life was bigger than one night in an elevator car, and it never hesitated to pull the rug out from under you.

Sighing, she tried on another pair of jeans. “What’s wrong with me?” she asked Isis. “And here I was worried that Dana would freak out.”

The black cat lifted her head and yawned.

“Just goes to show you how much I know.” Laurel looked back at the mirror. “You think she’ll like my ass in these jeans?”

Of course Dana would like her ass. That wasn’t really the question.

What Laurel really wanted to know was whether Dana would like her enough to overcome her solitary tendencies on a longer-term basis. And if the answer was yes, was she ready for another relationship herself?

Unable to resume the search for the right top before she had a good heart-to-heart, Laurel stepped away from the mirror and plopped onto the mattress next to her beloved feline.

“When we were in that elevator, I was just sure that everything would work out,” she said, giving Isis a tender stroke. “I could see she was scared, but I thought—well, of course she was scared. She was practically a virgin.”

Laurel closed her eyes, smiling as she played back images from Saturday night, their first in a real bed. Somehow, impossibly, Dana was the best lover she’d ever had.

“I swear,” she murmured. “If I hadn’t known it was almost her first time, her performance never would have clued me in.” Isis meowed, and Laurel took that as a sign of protest. “I know, I know. More information than you needed.”

She scratched Isis’s head and stood to return to her closet. Gazing at her assortment of tops, Laurel selected another to try on. This one was a favorite, hugging her breasts in a way that made her feel like she could conquer the world.

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