by Jae
Ky couldn’t help staring. “I wasn’t even ten when your dad taught me!”
“Exactly. Way before he had any idea that you might one day be his daughter-in-law. They want you to take over because you make damn good pizza…and because you’re family. Always have been. Always will be.” Regan lifted Ky’s hands to her lips and kissed her knuckles. “Even if you and your father never fully mend your relationship, despite the baby steps you’ve been taking, you’ll always have a family, okay?”
“Okay,” Ky answered around the lump in her throat. Then she mentally played back Regan’s words. “Wait! Did you just say…daughter-in-law?”
Regan went wide-eyed. “Uh…yes? I mean, I don’t expect either of us to get down on one knee and propose anytime soon, but eventually…yeah, that’s what I want. There’s not a single doubt in my mind that you’re the right person for me.”
Ky blinked against tears of happiness that blurred her vision. “Always have been, always will be?”
“Yes,” Regan answered softly. “Even when we were deeply in denial, it was always you for me. So? What do you say?”
“I thought you weren’t proposing?”
“I’m not. Not yet. But—”
Ky tackled her to the bed and captured her mouth in a deep kiss. “Does that answer your question?” she asked breathlessly.
Giddy laughter shook Regan’s short frame. “Well, it answers the question who’ll dig through the remainder of the moving boxes for the iron.” She gestured at the outfits that had gotten trapped beneath their intertwined bodies.
“I’m not getting the iron out because of a wrinkle or two. Now, if your blouse and the skirt were wrinkled all over…” Ky grinned down at her, their lips only an inch apart. “Can you think of anything that would make that happen?”
“Hmm. That’s a question that might need more research too. Including extensive experiments to control all other factors that might have caused the wrinkling.” Regan rocked her hips up into Ky, and her voice went hoarse. “Very, very extensive experiments.”
“Fine with me,” Ky gasped out. After all, it had been a little chemistry experiment that had gotten them here.
* * *
If you enjoyed this book and want to find out more about Regan and Ky’s friends, check out Jae’s romance novel Wrong Number, Right Woman, the book in which Eliza and Denny meet and fall in love.
Denny, a shy butch who helps raise her niece, gets a wrong-number text from a stranger named Eliza. There’s an instant connection, but Eliza is straight…or isn’t she?
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Wrong Number, Right Woman
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ISBN: 978-3-96324-402-5 (mobi), 978-3-96324-403-2 (epub)
Length: 116,000 words (370 pages)
A single text message can change everything!
Flirting has never been Denny’s strong suit, but so what if she’s too shy to ask women out? She’s content with her simple life, working as a cashier and helping her sister raise her niece.
But then she gets a wrong-number text message from a stranger named Eliza, asking her of all people for dating advice!
Eliza is Denny’s total opposite: witty, outgoing—and straight. Despite their differences, the accidental text sparks an unlikely friendship. Soon, Eliza—self-proclaimed queen of disastrous first dates—would rather banter back and forth with Denny than to keep trying her luck at online dating.
When they meet in person, there’s an instant connection. But what Eliza is feeling can’t be attraction, right? It doesn’t mean a thing that she’s starting to wish the guys she dates would be more like Denny. Or does it?
Can the wrong number lead to the right woman after all?
Wrong Number, Right Woman is a light-hearted, slow-burn lesbian romance that embraces likable characters without all the drama.
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ISBN: 978-3-96324-430-8 (mobi), 978-3-96324-431-5 (epub)
Length: 75,000 words (220 pages)
An age-gap, opposites-attract lesbian romance between a nanny and her career-climbing boss that ends in a puddle of melted ice queen.
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Enter Emily Walker—fresh out of college, bright, a little naive, and new to New York City. Emily is everything Camila is not and frankly it’s a little unsettling how innocent and gentle the young woman is.
That’s not all that’s unsettling. Camila’s growing feelings for Emily are making it hard to maintain a professional distance. Surely she can’t possibly be falling for the nanny? God, it’s such a mid-life crisis cliché. But would it be too impossible?
As time goes on, Camila starts to wonder if maybe even she can get her happy ending after all.
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When Robbie and Mia walk into Claire’s work they seem the least likely people to help her find a life. But despite Claire’s initial attempts to alienate them, an unexpected new friendship develops.
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The injured British/Indian elite cyclist just wants to settle up, move on, get rehab, and certainly not have to deal with the restaurant’s beautiful owner and artisan foodie, Lillian McAllister, or her sweet, four-year-old daughter.
In order to win, Jessica’s disciplined life is dedicated to controlling her emotions, and she isn’t sure she’d survive letting her walls down now.
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About Jae
Jae grew up amidst the vineyards of southern Germany. She spent her childhood with her nose buried in a book, earning her the nickname “professor.” The writing bug bit her at the age of eleven. Since 2006, she has been writing mostly in English.
She used to work as a psychologist but gave up her day job in December 2013 to become a full-time writer and a part-time editor. As far as she’s concerned, it’s the best job in the world.
When she’s not writing, she likes to spend her time reading, indulging her ice cream and office supply addictions, and watching way too many crime shows.
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Website: www.jae-fiction.com
E-Mail: [email protected]
Chemistry Lessons
© 2021 by Jae
ISBN: 978-3-96324-547-3
Available in e-book and paperback formats.
Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
Owner: Astrid Ohletz
Am Kirschgarten 2
65830 Kriftel
Germany
www.ylva-publishing.com
First edition: 2021
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
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Credits
Edited by Helen de Beer
Cover Design and Print Layout by Streetlight Graphics