“Yes, those kinds of qualms. But I have another idea, one that might be easier for me to swallow and gives Jodie…Fucking wife stealing rat fuck face Jodie… a chance to… God, Bette you have to stop doing that, I can’t think…” she moaned, her hand reached up to capture Bette’s hand and press it harder into her breast.

“I am not doing anything, nothing at all…” Bette protested sweetly even as her thumb started the slow rotation again, pressing into Tina as her hard nipple answered immediately. “I think you should do whatever brings you peace, I have faith in you to do the right thing for Elena… and for us.”

She moved into kiss Tina, softly. The lightest of touches, gentle. She sucked her bottom lip and released it slowly. She looked into the tired eyes of her wife and stood up, “I’ll start the bath…you do the dishes…” she said, taking the bubble bath and duckie from the table and walking to the bathroom.

“Babe” Tina said, coming into the bathroom with a puzzled look on her face. She stopped in the doorway, her hands on her hips. “Explain”.

“It just happened Tee, but you can rest easy knowing that your favorite spatula had a good long life flipping burgers and making omelets…” Bette said immediately, glancing up from where she was pouring bubble bath into the filling tub.

“You ruined my favorite spatula, no doubt there… but you may have also managed to ruin the stove top as well…”

“I ordered a new one of those too…” Bette said quietly, shrugging.

“A new one what?”

“A new stove…”

“You ordered a new stove?” Tina chuckled, coming to run her fingers through Bette’s hair. Her thick, curly, wild hair.

“Yes Tee, through the Goggle… it will arrive this week” she said sweetly, smiling bashfully. So fucking cute, Tina thought. She could forgive her anything as long as she looked at her like that.

They sat in the hot, bubbly water across from each other, their legs entwined, and the wine poured. They had installed the biggest tub available and it was wide and long. Legs rubbed slickly on each other and the steam rose to calm and soothe. Tina laid her head back on the edge of the tub and closed her eyes, her knee popping up out of the water as she settled in. She sighed contently. Bette watched her relax in the water, feeling her own stress melt away at the sight of Tina, the bubbles, the candles, the intimacy.