by G S Binkley
Lacy acquiesced to her director’s request. Temporarily putting her own concerns regarding her lover away, a distant façade dropped across her face as she fell easily into her character’s role.
As the afternoon drew to an end, Gage had one of the production drivers take Lisa and the kids back to their rooms at the hotel. She waited in the actor’s trailer for Lacy to finish her scene.
When Lacy arrived, she found Gage sleeping on the couch in the trailer. She quietly changed her clothes then stooped down next to the blonde. Lacy placed a gentle kiss on her partner’s lips. Gage smiled. Lacy ducked in again for a more intense eye-opening kiss. It did the trick.
“Mmmmm.” Gage pulled her lover closer, exchanging small delicate kisses that grew in intensity. The blonde pulled her lover up, guiding Lacy to lie on top of her. “Now, I have you where I want you.”
“I could say the same.” Lacy laid her head on Gage’s shoulder.
Brushing her lips against Lacy’s dark hair, the blonde murmured. “You always have me where you want me.”
Lacy’s head popped up, arching her left eyebrow in question.
Smiling, Gage proclaimed. “Wrapped around your little finger.”
Seductively, Lacy countered. “That’s not all I want you wrapped around.” Waggling her eyebrows, Gage was ready to play but Lacy had other things on her mind. “Will you talk to me?”
“Talk? I thought you wanted action.” Gage teased her lover, running her hands up and down Lacy’s sides.
Lacy offered her lover a reassuring kiss. “We’ll have plenty of time for that this weekend. You, me and nothing else.”
Claiming the younger woman’s lips, Gage mumbled. “You, me and we have time now. The kids are with Lisa at the hotel.”
Lacy resisted her lover’s advances. “Gage, sweetheart, please talk with me.”
“Okay. I can talk and…….” Gage attempted to shift her lover over in order to gain more access to all of Lacy. “…make love to you.”
As Gage nuzzled her lover’s neck, Lacy nearly fell into the seductive haze of her partner’s assault. This isn’t going the way I planned. Feeling she had missed a rare opportunity to confront her partner about Gage’s past, Lacy allowed a heavy sigh.
The blonde knew something was bothering Lacy. “Okay. We’ll talk.” Brushing back a wisp of her lover’s bangs, Gage winked. “What’s on your mind?”
Lacy knew she had to tread lightly. “Earlier… when Ryan and I were discussing that scene.”
Gage cut her off. “Lacy, I’m sorry. I write, you act, Ryan directs. It won’t happen again. Besides, I don’t think I’m cut out to be a producer so Mark produces.”
This was an interesting turn of events for Lacy. “What are you saying?”
“Don’t get me wrong. I love being on a movie set and having some input into things.” Gage drew in a short breath. “It’s just that…. the day in day out producing thing… schedules, getting people here…. there, planning every second of the day. Well, it’s not me.” Gage looked away. “At least, not the way it’s typically done.”
“And?”
Gage rolled her eyes. “And….. Mark loves every aspect of producing and now that Ryan is part of the team… I was thinking maybe that Mark would give me a new position.”
“What position is that?”
A sexy smirk popped up on Gage’s face. “I kinda like the position I’m in now.” She winked at her lover who countered with a smirk of her own but not nearly as sexy as Gage had offered to Lacy. “I was thinking… consultant. Maybe special consultant to the star of the movie.”
“Mmmmmm.” Lacy kissed her best friend and lover. “Do I have anything to say about this?”
“Everything… whatever you say.”
“Let’s see.” Lacy leaned against back of the couch. “I seem to remember you wanted me to do a screen test in order to get this part. I’m thinking the same thing for you.”
“I remember we were in the shower. And, we needed a casting couch for the… audition.” Gage bounced up and down on the couch. “We have the couch. What do you want me to do…. to prove this new position belongs to me and me alone?” Lifting up, Gage met Lacy in a fiery kiss as her hands blazed a trail over her lover’s oversensitive body. The blonde’s right hand found refuge on Lacy’s breast.
Lacy moaned. “Oh, God, sweetheart, you’re doing it.”
And, Gage did for several more hours.
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Lynn and Daniel Lewis took care of their grandkids while Lacy and Gage retreated for a long weekend of celebrating their love at the cabin on the lake. As they settled in the cabin and the evening set, Gage offered her pregnant lover a glass of grape juice. “Did you enjoy the day?”
Lacy sipped her mock wine. “Yes, Dani wasn’t too happy about not being able to come with us. This place is so beautiful this time of year.”
Gage eased down next to her lover. “Derek wasn’t either and heaven knows how your mom is going to handle Sammy. It nearly broke my heart when we left… he was crying all over the place. I never knew a kid to love his momma… so much.”
Reflective, Lacy nodded. “I miss them already.” It hadn’t even been twenty-four hours since they left their children behind so they could share a few days together.
Pulling her lover closer, Gage offered. “We could go back early?” A simple smile from her lover assured her she was on the right track so Gage made a command decision. “Next time they come with us.”
Kissing her lover, Lacy smiled. “I love you.”
The candles set the room aglow as darkness fell. Lacy and Gage sat on the sofa looking out the large window to the calming lake. When they were out earlier on the boat, the water offered up a rough ride with all the boats zigzagging back and forth across the lake with vacationers.
Gage refilled their glasses. “I want to make a toast. To you, the love of my life, the woman I love…. to my soulmate.” They clicked their glasses together and sipped. The blonde noticed a distant look cross her lover’s face. “What? What are you thinking?”
“Nothing really.” Lacy leaned against her partner, contemplating an old belief. “There was a time when I didn’t think… well… believe in the soulmate concept…. until I met you.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know really. I suppose it was that it somehow meant I wasn’t complete… left unfinished.” Lacy shrugged her shoulders.
Polishing off her drink, Gage sat the empty glass aside. “Lacy, it’s not really that another person completes you exactly. More like, you are this beautiful painting. Perfect in every way… with feathery sensual strokes….” Gage gently ran a finger down her lover’s jaw line. “…on a smooth canvas. With a dazzling array of vibrant colors and soft, gentle curves and angles that capture the effervescent beauty that you are. And, your soulmate….that’s me.” Gage smiled. “Frames this picture of you…enhances the vivid colors, illuminates it bringing it into focus. I know you made my darker days brighter. It’s more than completing each other. When I met you everything in my life snapped into focus… you brought out the brilliance of my soul. Thank you.”
Lacy accepted the gracious kiss from her partner. “I think I understand now….and, that was very romantic.”
“I aim to please.” Gage squeezed her. “Are you ready to……” The blonde threw a sultry look toward the bedroom door.
Lacy toyed with her lover. “You think I’m that easy?”
“Easy to love? Yes.”
“Well, a girl needs a little more romance before being carted off to bed.” Lacy rubbed her body against the older woman.
Gage’s green eyes shifted around the romantic setting she had carefully orchestrated. Candles? Check. Romantic dinner? Check. Wine? I mean, grape juice. Check. Music? Check. Woman in my arms? Double check on that…and she’s very sexy, too. Now, let’s see what else? More talk! Yes, that’s it. She likes it when I talk to her. “Have I told you lately how much I love you? That you are the most
beautiful…and sexiest….can’t forget sexy, woman ever…. and, very, very intelligent.” Gage snuggled closer. “Now, can we go to bed?”
Lacy jumped on the opportunity that presented itself. She knew Gage would be very receptive at this point as her lover seemed to only have one thing on her mind. “You know, I don’t even know your middle name?”
Ignoring Lacy’s mock resistance, the blonde planted her mouth at the nape of Lacy’s neck. “Don’t have one.”
Falling into the delicious feelings her lover was rising inside her, Lacy moaned. “What’s ‘S’ stand for?”
“Mmmm….. nothing. No name…..just ‘S’.” Sensing Lacy didn’t believe her, Gage continued. “It’s true. It’s on my birth certificate. I pretended for years it stood for Saint.” Gage revealed a secret nugget she had never shared with anyone else. “Don’t know why?” After being called everything from a little devil to pure evil by her supposed caretakers, Gage fantasized Saint for a middle name to counter the ill effect of those hateful, vile words that chipped away at her sinking self-esteem.
That simple revelation brought tears to Lacy’s eyes. “Perhaps it was because you…. it had to do with your mother leaving you.”
This was not a place that Gage wanted to journey, down memory lane. “How the heck does pretending that my middle name is Saint have anything to do with… that?”
Lacy really didn’t know what the connection was. Rather it was something she felt. Struggling to come up with a logical explanation, she gathered her thoughts. “Oh, I don’t know. It seems I know so little about you. You were given up for adoption but instead went from foster home to foster home. Never really having a home. I know you shared a special connection with your social worker, Grace as it turns out. And, she gave you this.” Lacy touched the gold necklace she wore. “You think it’s from your mother… maybe. You don’t talk about your past and only recently we found out that it was Stella who helped you with your stuttering. Besides you being a writer and…..a few other jobs you mentioned, I don’t know much more.”
Sighing heavily, Gage pursed her lips. “You know I love you.”
“Gage!” Lacy fumed inside at her partner’s continued reluctance to share this aspect of her life. “Should I know about anyone?”
Confused, Gage asked. “Anyone what?”
Lacy rolled her eyes. “Sometimes you can be so dense. Lover? Past relationships?”
“Oh…” Gage kissed her lover tempering the sparks of frustration from engulfing the rest of the evening. “You’re the only one. The only one for me… that counts.”
“Gage!”
“There was this girl. Nikki.” Gage spied her lover and caught a jealous glimpse spark in her blue eyes. “I really liked her. We had so much fun … spending all our time together. Inseparable really. Truthfully, I still miss her.”
“You do?” Lacy’s blue eyes slammed wide open.
“She was my first friend.” Letting her jealous lover off the hook, Gage confessed. “We were five…or six.” Lacy let out a relieved breath. “I was staying with her parents and we got along terrifically. Then one day, a social worker came and took me away…shipped off to another foster home. I never knew why. But, I heard one day from my new foster family that Nikki’s parents thought I was a bad influence. Maybe I was.” Gage sighed. “I was only six years old!”
“I’m sorry.” Lacy twisted around in her lover’s arms. “You don’t have to tell me anymore.”
“Lacy, I didn’t have a family when I was young…but, I do now. You guys are more than enough for me. With you and the kids, I’ve got the best of the best. Okay?” In a reassuring kiss, Gage sent all the love she held for Lacy to her partner.
When Lacy pushed away, Gage’s greens eyes perked up. “No. No, bedroom yet. Stay there.” Lacy walked across the room and retrieved a set of papers from her purse. “Here. For you.”
Gage stared at the papers for a moment as Lacy settled back down next to her. For only a brief moment, Gage remembered when David showed up at the cabin with divorce papers in hand for Lacy. “Will I like it?”
“Sweetheart, open it.” Lacy commanded.
Unfolding the papers, Gage studied each unbelievable word on it. “I…I… “ She closed her eyes savoring the delicious moment. “David went along with this?”
“Yes.” Warm loving eyes surveyed her partner’s reaction. “He didn’t have a problem with it at all.” Of course, he wants something in return. Seeing that look on her face is worth it though.
Gage re-read the words that legally would give her custody of Lacy’s children in case something ever happened to her lover. “Thank you.” Tears ran down her cheeks as she kissed her lover. “Thank you. I won’t let you down. I love them so much, Lacy, and I promise to protect them with my life…be there for them always.”
“I know.”
Then it dawned on the blonde as to what the papers alluded to. “Promise me, Lacy. Promise me that when we leave this world, we do it together. Or, at least, I go first. I don’t think.. I know I could never live without you.”
Cupping her lover’s cheek, Lacy reassured Gage. “That’s not what this is about. Okay?”
Refusing to look back at her lover caused concern for Lacy. When Lacy gently turned the blonde’s face around, she saw the unshed tears mist in Gage’s sad green eyes. “What? What is it?”
“My gift to you…. pales in comparison to this.” Gage held up the papers before sitting them aside.
Lacy took Gage’s hand and gently placed it on her stomach. “Sweetheart, you have given me the greatest gift of all.”
Her lover’s heartfelt words sent shudders of joy, happiness and love through the blonde’s body. “For all time, I will love you, embrace you and hold you dear. With every breath I take, I become better because of you.” Gage capped her declaration of love with a deep soul-melding kiss.
Breaking away from the all-consuming passionate kiss, Lacy husked. “Now it’s time for the bedroom.”
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Lying on top of her lover, Gage ran a persistent and happy hand down the curve of her lover’s breast. She kissed Lacy deeply. Within minutes, the flaming passion that rose wrapped them in warm and safe blanket of love. Gage’s lips journeyed down Lacy’s neck pausing only briefly to suck on her collarbone before drifting lower.
Lacy closed her eyes and let out a deep guttural moan as Gage locked on to her breast, feeding hungrily on it. The dark haired woman arched her back meeting her lover’s sensual assault. “Sweetheart.”
Briefly pausing from her task at hand, Gage asked. “Yessssss?”
“Nothing…just sweetheart.” Lacy struggled to reply then quickly added. “Don’t stop.”
Gage chuckled. “Oh, baby, I’m never gonna stop.” She captured the breast with her mouth and licked the swollen nipple.
Wanting to give as much pleasure as she was getting, Lacy ran both her hands from the top of Gage’s thighs up and over her lover’s backside. Fully knowing the desired effect she would receive.
The blonde caught a hitch in her breath. “God, do it again.”
Lacy continued to massage her lover as she thrust her own hips upward.
Fighting to regain focus in her sexual haze, Gage desperately pushed herself downward away from her lover’s pleasing hands. Her tongue slipped into Lacy’s navel, licking, sucking as her hands roamed over the younger woman’s breasts. As finger deftly circled the dark nipples of her lover, Gage dipped her tongue in and around Lacy’s belly button.
Throwing her head back, Lacy etched out in a satisfied, strained voice. “God, sweetheart, that really sends me.”
Pleasantly pleased with her lover’s response, Gage ventured lower. Lacy opened wide to receive her lover’s undying affection. Inhaling the delectable scent of her lover, Gage drowned her face between Lacy’s legs. She spent the better part of the night there making love to the woman she would love for eternity.
Lacy screamed out Gage’s name as she climaxed.
Patiently waiting for her lover to return from her ecstatic journey, Gage remained in place. “I love you.” She murmured against Lacy’s curls, tasting the wetness on her lips. Gently, Gage soothed her lover’s sensitive mound as she met the small thrusts of Lacy’s hips. The blonde pulled back, pausing only a moment to gaze lovingly at her woman.
“Don’t you dare stop, sweetheart.” Lacy commanded, continuing to thrust her hips against her lover’s face.
Are you kidding? This is exactly where I always wanted to be. The blonde re-ignited the smoldering ambers of her lover’s passion. She kissed, sucked, licked and devoured all that Lacy was willing to give.
Chapter Fourteen
As Ryan prepared the scene in the movie where Jordan walked out on her boyfriend and boss, Lacy stopped Gage as they walked to the set. “Please?” Lacy pulled the blonde closer. Brushing luscious lips against willing ones, the dark haired woman purred. “For me.”
Returning the kiss, Gage acquiesced. “Anything for you.”
A hitch in Gage’s breath caught a passing crewmember’s attention as her lover covertly ran her hand down the writer’s side then slipped it up her shirt meeting skin. “Lacy! Later.” Gage winked. “Yes, I will re-write the scene as you desire. Can you tell me why though? And, you know, now we have to get an actor to play Devon.”
“No, we don’t.” The blonde’s eyebrow rose in question. “Hayston is playing Devon.”
Before Gage could utter a single sound, her partner enveloped her lips sending the blonde once again on a lust laden journey, forgetting everything except the inviting lips that erupted swells of passion inside her.
“Lacy! We’re ready for you.” Ryan called.
Left stunned, Gage desperately reined in her overheated emotions. Slowly sucking in deep breaths in an attempt to calm her racing heart, Gage overheard Ryan tell Lacy that the actor signed to play Edie was now unavailable and they had hired Marva DuLaine to play the part.