Her next words were shut off as her lips were sealed in a hot kiss from the blonde, who had crept over her body slowly while she’d talked, hazel eyes continuing to darken as they locked onto Bette’s large brown ones, her wife and lover’s orbs that promised her a lifetime of love.

The air around them stilled as they kissed, increasingly lost in a fog of desire.

“Can you carry Angie to her bed, baby?” Tina whispered, as she drew her head up, reluctantly ending their hot kiss. “I’ll take a quick shower. Then we can pick up from…”

“Wait for me in the shower, baby,” Bette interrupted, beginning to sit up as Tina straightened and rocked back on her heels. She returned Tina’s smile with a slow wink, “Allow me to return the favor you gave me last night…”

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“Thanks for joining me at the meeting, Bette,” Mark said, as he opened the car door for her.

He and Bette had just helped to conclude the sale of an asset that they had advised one of George’s firm’s main clients to sell. The sale had been touch-and-go for weeks before finally concluding during the morning meeting, at the price that had been originally agreed upon. The buyer had been, in the client’s words, “a ruthless, no- holds-barred prick who would do anything no matter the collateral damage.” Finally, before the long holiday weekend, Mark called their client to report, with relief, that the buyer had agreed to buy at the terms the client had set originally, and that they’d sign the offer sheet on Tuesday morning.

The meeting had started at 7:30 in the morning in the client’s board room in one of the glass towers in Stone Street, down by the financial district. The meeting was supposed to have been a formality, but, a spirited last-minute argument had broken out. Mark and the firm’s client, and their lawyers were close to losing their heads, on the one side, while the buyer and his lawyers were arguing about a footnote they’d wanted removed before agreeing to the terms of the sale.

“I don’t know how you kept your cool up there,” Mark added, as he shut the door, and then walked around the car to get in from the other side. Bette smiled at Mark as he got in.