Jayden cut her off, grabbing Helena’s neck, pulling her close for a lip bruising kiss.  The bottle dropping between them, the distant clatter unheard by them both, Jayden gently easing Helena up onto the old countertop, hands at Helena’s hips, pressing herself between Helena’s legs, Jayden finally released her from the kiss.

            “No, I know where this is going to…,” stammered Helena as she captured her breath, eyes moving away from Jayden’s.

            “I filed for a divorce two days ago, at first, I thought I was just…  grieving for CJ in some odd way, wanting to be like her so that she wasn’t really gone.  I lived in the shadow of my sister all my life, I tried to live up to her perfect relationship, her great grades, everything.  I didn’t want to be her, I just wanted to be me, with my own life.  Yet, Helena, this is where I want to be, with you.  Right now, in the here and now, life is too short to hide what I want,” stated Jayden, kissing Helena’s chin gently.

            “And I’m what you want?” asked Helena softly her voice unbelieving of what Jayden was telling her, it sounded all to familiar, the same speech that Dylan had made to her so many times before, and look where that had gotten her.

            “Yes, you are what I want, but let me tell Sam first?  I don’t want her…  I don’t know, Sam’s my best friend, my sister-in-law so to speak, she’d been good to me, and I’d like the chance to tell her…”

            “Well, you aren’t going to be telling her tonight, so why don’t you accompany me upstairs?” asked Helena in a seductive tone, sliding off the counter, her hands playing with Jayden’s hair.

            Jayden smiled impishly, “Why do we have to take it to the bedroom?”

            “Because I don’t know when Shane the Casanova is going to come waltzing into the house, and I do wish to enjoy you all to myself, she may very well be taken with that body of a goddess you have hidden under your clothes, now…. Upstairs…,” ordered Helena with the wave of a hand, smiling playfully and Jayden took her hand, letting Helena lead the way to her bedroom.