**4 AM Tina’s bedroom**

Rain beat a steady rhythm on the window pane of her bedroom as Tina lay still listening to Bette’s steady breathing and the beat of her heart. Lying with her head nestled between the caramel softness of Bette’s breasts, Tina reviewed their lovemaking. It had begun in the living room and progressed tantalizingly across several rooms of the house before they found themselves in the bedroom. Each room had brought a different sensation, a new discovery for them and a level of intensity that she had thought impossible. Their lovemaking when it happened in the past had been intense and very satisfying but this time… there was a depth to it that she had to admit frightened her. No pleasing you is there. This is what you wanted–Bette all of her and you have it more than you ever have and you’re afraid. There was a part of her that was afraid but only because she had so much more to lose. Bette’s honesty and grief about the loss of their son and her fears about the possible loss of her job and reputation had drawn her out of the places she had hidden in as well and if they didn’t make it… They would make it she vowed. Bette had been insistent that if anyone could help them it was Monique and when it came to ruthless success Bette knew the way it worked, it was how she had survived for so long and so successfully in a male dominated world.

Tina sighed and shifted in Bette’s arms deciding that she would not allow the uncertainty of the future and her fears to destroy the pleasure, physical and emotional of the last few hours and days. Tina had been grateful that somehow, by some sort of cosmic mini miracle they had managed not to wake Angelica. She had still been sleeping quietly when she had looked in on her on the way back from the washroom a half hour ago.

As she shifted her lips brushed the silky flesh of Bette’s right nipple, the reaction to her mouth grazing the sensitive tip was instantaneous. The dark circle swelled, hardened, rose before her eyes, Bette’s lips parted slightly as a quiet moan escaped; arousal pulsed unbidden through Tina again as she felt the tiny tingling knot of need forming just below her navel. I could spend eternity with you Bette and it would never be enough. Just when I think I am satiated and cannot give or take any more this happens! Tina’s fingers, moving with a will that seemed entirely their own crept slowly down Bette’s body from where they had rested near her ribs toward their goal as Tina inhaled the spicy scent of Bette’s skin, an intoxicating mix of perfume, sweat and the musk of their love. Their movement pierced Bette’s unconscious like a lance, by the time Tina’s fingers reached into the tight dark curls they were greeted by a wetness that betrayed Bette’s own growing response. A greedy smile crossed Tina’s lips at the wetness that coated her fingers. It was matched by a low, sexy growl from Bette as Tina’s fingers stroked the pulsing flesh of Bette’s inner lips and clit.