Tina smiled picking up a boot and leaning into Bette’s lips she spoke against them, “You can start right now.”

‘She’s insatiable.’ Bette thought to herself as she allowed Tina to take her again.

……………………………………

NEARLY TWO MONTHS LATER

Bette was going through her checklist again of what she needed to purchase before she left. Her eyes were glued to the screen, switching back and forth between what she’d written and what she’d remembered to add to the list. Her doorbell rang and she looked at the clock, surely it wasn’t Tina, she now had a key. It was too late in the night for Tina to be at her door with the baby anyway. Bette got up and slipped her house shoes on and unlocked her office door several turns before she stepped out.  She peaked through her door’s window and saw Kit, Carmen and Shane on her porch. Big smiles on their faces shouting through the door, ‘We’re not strangers, open the door, Grandma’.

“What the hell are you guys doing here? It’s late.” She asked standing aside so they could walk in.

“Well we were at Kit’s show; which she killed by the way,” Shane said bowing her head to Kit. Kit just shook her head as she took a seat. “And we were missing you and Tina, so since we can’t bombard her kitchen when we’re hungry, we decided to come over here.”

“What if I had company? Did you stop to think about that?”

“Not likely seeing as your Old Lady is with her sisters tonight.” Carmen answered taking off her shoes at the door.

“And what makes you think I want to feed you guys?”

“You know we really don’t care if you want to or not, we’re hungry for your food.” Carmen said marching past Bette on her way to the kitchen, Bette shoved her along the way. Carmen immediately went for the food that Tina had cooked for Bette. A lot of times Tina would make Bette meals to take with her to work so she wasn’t running all day on just a salad or even nothing at all. Today Bette had discovered that Tina had made her something hardy and fulfilling, it was Ossobuco with sautéed vegetables over mashed potatoes. Carmen had a little bit and she was taken with the wonderful flavors and textures of the dish. She didn’t even bother to put the left overs on a plate she just threw Bette’s glass dish in the toaster oven. Once it was warm enough she dug right in and nearly ate the entire thing giving Shane only a few small forkfuls.