by Radclyffe
“Reilly is so hot,” Candace whispered.
Grinning, Reilly turned her head and opened her eyes. “Thanks.”
“Stop cruising my lover,” Liz muttered. “I’m pregnant and can’t be blamed for my actions.”
“I meant ‘must be hot,’ you know. Like warm.”
“Uh-huh,” Liz said.
Candace laughed. “You two hungry?”
Liz burrowed closer to Reilly. “Later.”
Reilly kissed Liz’s temple and closed her eyes again.
Candace turned and followed Bren downstairs. In the kitchen she settled on the stool at the breakfast counter and picked up a slice of pizza. “So, what are you going to do the rest of the night?”
Bren smiled. “I’m going to email a certain someone about a fantasy we have in common. How about you?”
“I’m going to call a certain woman and ask her out on a date.” Candace glanced toward the stairs, and thought of Liz and Reilly asleep in the surety of one another’s embrace. “Do you think this is the end of the Lonely Hearts Club?”
“Oh, no. The LHC has always been about our friendship.” Bren wrapped an arm around Candace’s waist. “And love will only make us stronger.”
About the Author
Radclyffe is a retired surgeon and full-time award-winning author-publisher with over thirty lesbian and anthologies in print. Seven of her works have been Lambda Literary finalists, including the Lambda Literary winners Erotic Interludes 2: Stolen Moments edited with Stacia Seaman; In Deep Waters 2; Distant Shores, Silent Thunder. She is the editor of Best Lesbian Romance 2009 and 2010 (Cleis Press), Erotic Interludes 2 through 5 and Romantic Interludes 1 and 2 with Stacia Seaman (BSB), and has selections in multiple anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2006-2010; After Midnight; Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists; First-Timers; Ultimate Undies: Erotic Stories About Lingerie and Underwear; Hide and Seek; A is for Amour; H is for Hardcore; L is for Leather; Rubber Sex, Tasting Him, and Cowboy Erotica. She is the recipient of the 2003 and 2004 Alice B. Readers’ awards for her body of work and is also the president of Bold Strokes Books, one of the world’s largest independent LGBTQ publishing companies.
Her latest release is an all-Radclyffe erotica anthology, Radical Encounters (Feb 2009) and the romantic intrigue novel Justice for All (April 2009), and the romance Secrets in the Stone (July 2009). Her forthcoming works include The Midnight Hunt (writing as L.L. Raand, March 2010) and the first in the First Responder Series, Trauma Alert (July 2010).
