Tina rested her head in the nape of Bette’s neck, who had to surpress a whimper. It felt so right, so good… too good. She truly hoped that Tina would leave Eric, but she feared for Rachel’s reaction and Tina’s reaction to Rachel’s reaction. This had been going on for some months and Tina would surely expect to be able to build a life with Rachel now, something she had probably wanted to do for some time now. Only did Rachel not do moving on together. She would drop Tina as soon as she found out, Bette was sure of that; the divorce would be too messy and she didn’t want to risk anything with an angry, rich husband. She couldn’t tell Tina about this now, the blonde probably wouldn’t believe her, be sure that Rachel loved her and that she was different.

As Bette moved her mouth to Tina’s ear to whisper that everything was going to be okay, there was a brief knock on the door and before Bette had the chance to let the person on the other side in, it already flew open. Allison appeared, carrying a pack of papers, rambling something about signatures. Bette was paralysed, realising what this must look like. Allison had just looked up and her eyes told everything – she thought Bette was doing more to Tina than just comforting her. The confusion was visible on the assistant’s face – was Tina cheating on Rachel? But she was already cheating on her husband with Rachel, so did this mean she cheated on her husband twice?

“Allison, this is not what it looks like, I can explain,” Bette started, but it was to no avail. Tina had only just realised what was going on and quickly stepped away from Bette, making everything look even more suspicious.

“I… I’m sorry for… interrupting.” Allison hastily put the papers down on Bette’s desk and walked out.

“What was that?” Tina asked, feeling the awkwardness hanging in the air.

“I don’t know, I only know it’s not good.”

“Shit… I’m sorry if I got you into trouble, I didn’t mean to -”

“No, it’s okay. I’m still her boss… but we sure need to talk. So… uhm… what are you going to do now?”