“Not even a little bit,” Lily murmured. “The other nice thing about being pregnant and not feeling queasy is I’m horny.”

“Is that something new?”

Lily ran her nails down the center of Chase’s belly. “No, but when it hits, it’s pretty urgent.”

Chase skimmed the muscles in Lily’s flanks and cupped her hips, pulling Lily tightly against her. Lily was hot and wet, and Chase hissed in a breath. The pulse beat faster between her thighs. “You’re beautiful, and I want you so damn much.”

“Show me?” Lily murmured and leaned down to kiss her again.

Chase did, with all the tenderness and fervor and love that burned through her, hour after hour and day after day. When Lily lay in her arms again, her hand straying down between Chase’s thighs, Chase sucked in a slow breath. “You should go to sleep.”

“I will,” Lily said. “Starting tomorrow, life gets easy.”

Chase, her concentration torn between the light stroke of Lily’s fingertips brushing over her and the lull of Lily’s voice in the darkness, managed to mutter, “How’s that?”

“Camp starts. I’ve got ten weeks to spend up here in the mountains, and I heard from Sarah that Marty’s coming back. They’re going to be a camp counselor this year.”

“That’s nice,” Chase said, the words strained with a little hint of desperation.

Lily laughed. “What’s nice, my love?”

“Lily,” Chase groaned. “Come on. You know.”

“You’re right, I do know. I know you love me. And I know what you need. And by the way, I love you.” Laughing, Lily kissed Chase again and took her to that place that felt like summer, every time.

About the Author

Radclyffe has written over sixty romance and romantic intrigue novels as well as a paranormal romance series, The Midnight Hunters, as L.L. Raand.

She is a three-time Lambda Literary Award winner in romance and erotica and received the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. A member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame, she is also an RWA/FF&P Prism Award winner for Secrets in the Stone, an RWA FTHRW Lories and RWA HODRW winner for Firestorm, an RWA Bean Pot winner for Crossroads, an RWA Laurel Wreath winner for Blood Hunt, and a Book Buyers Best award winner for Price of Honor and Secret Hearts. She is also a featured author in the 2015 documentary film Love Between the Covers, from Blueberry Hill Productions. In 2019 she was recognized as a “Trailblazer of Romance” by the Romance Writers of America.

In 2004 she founded Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing companies, and is the current president and publisher.

Find her at facebook.com/Radclyffe.BSB, follow her on Twitter@RadclyffeBSB, and visit her website at Radfic.com.

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