Worth The Risk_A Lesbian Romance

by K M Leach

  Lucy finished her big life changing revelation and sat there silently trying to gauge what Bonnie was thinking. To the brunette's credit, she was doing a great job at hiding what she was thinking and Lucy just had to sit there and wait for Bonnie to process what she had just told her.

  "Those pictures on your walls at home, they were done by you, weren't they?," Bonnie asked softly. Lucy unable to speak at that moment just nodded and continued to watch Bonnie closely. "Well, that just makes me hate Nadine even more! Because you know how much I love those pictures, baby. Why didn't you ever tell me that it was your hands that produced something so exquisite?"

  "It was a painful reminder of what I had given up for Nadine and it made me sad to think about it."

  Bonnie's hands clenched into tight fists as she thought about everything Lucy had given up to make Nadine happy. "I just want you to be happy, Lucy. Whatever you want to do, I will stand by you and be supportive."

  "I know that, Bonnie. You are the best friend anyone could ever have but you are so much more than that now and the real question is whether you will come with me. Will you leave the hustle and bustle of the city and move to a small town with barely three thousand residents and make a life with me?" Lucy held her breath and waited for Bonnie's answer.

  CHAPTER THIRTY NINE

  "You are kidding, right? You really needed to ask me that?" Bonnie said incredulously.

  "Well... I.. Uh.. Yeah. It's a big decision, Bonnie."

  Bonnie shook her head, "Not for me it isn't. I would follow you to the ends of the earth. I have ardently loved you for years, Lucy. Now that we have expressed that love there is no going back for me, you must know that!"

  "I'm sorry. Sometimes my mind gets loud with doubts, you know that. I'm trying not to listen to them, but I have never seen you commit to anything for more than a few months, Bonnie. I'm not saying this to you to be mean, I love you just the way you are. You always had an active social life and what's to say that we move up here and six months later you get bored and leave. I don't think my heart could take it, baby." Lucy frowned and she looked at Bonnie apologetically. "I'm sorry, what I just said sounds terrible doesn't it."

  Bonnie kept her breathing under control and processed everything that Lucy had just said. What Ryan had said to her echoed throughout her mind in full surround sound. Would she hurt, Lucy? The thought of hurting Lucy made her heart ache painfully. She couldn't imagine ever getting tired of Lucy's love, it was like air to her. She felt like she couldn't survive without her and nobody had ever made her feel like that. Yes, she had liked to party, but that had been to distract herself from the fact that someone else was sharing Lucy's bed and was getting her love. Bonnie looked up and focused on the woman in front of her, when she felt Lucy take her hand.

  "I'm sorry if I upset you. Nothing would make me happier than to have you here with me. My love for you is deep and all consuming. I want to live the rest of my life making you as happy as you make me. But I know I am asking a lot. I don't doubt that you love me, Bonnie. I promise."

  "But you doubt my staying power? Ryan said that I was a user and that he hoped I didn't make you fall in love with me and then get bored."

  "Ryan was in love with you?"

  "Apparently," Bonnie responded. "But the only person I have ever truly loved is you. The partying, the countless bed partners..... They were all distractions because I couldn't have you. I never looked at another woman, Lucy, because the only woman for me is you. I want to be with you. I want to make a home with you here and I hope that one day we would talk about having a family."

  Lucy's heart stopped with the sincerity in Bonnie's eyes and words.

  How could I ever have doubted how she feels about me? It is written all over her face.

  Love can fade, her ever present self doubt said.

  I don't care. The way she makes me feel, so intense, so pure, I will bask in her love for as long as it lasts!

  Lucy reached out and cupped Bonnie's face and her heart melted with how the brunette leaned into her and closed her eyes.

  Bonnie opened her eyes and looked deep and beseechingly into her lover's eyes. "Please don't doubt me, Lucy. I will spend the rest of my days showing you how much I love you."

  Lucy leaned forward and kissed Bonnie softly on the lips before pulling back. "You don't need to show me, baby. I see it with every look. I hear it with every word, and I feel it with every single touch. Your touch burns so damn good," Lucy whispered before taking command of Bonnie's mouth once more.

  Bonnie kissed Lucy back passionately and shifted her position and lowered the blonde down onto the blanket, pressing the entire length of her body against her. Lucy's leg shifted between Bonnie's thighs and pressed against her heat as her hands found purchase on her tight ass. They moved against one another and made out for what felt like hours before Bonnie finally got frustrated with the clothing between them. She began to frantically remove her own clothing before aiding Lucy in removing her own. They made love in the afternoon sun for hours and moved to the small pool and waterfall when their skin felt so hot that it may spontaneously combust.

  Bonnie watched as Lucy ducked her head under the waterfall and smoothed her hands down her now wet golden locks and beads of water glistened on her beautiful body. Lucy held out her hand and Bonnie eagerly allowed herself to be drawn into the blonde's arms. "So we are really going to do this? Move away from the city and make a life here in our own little piece of paradise?"

  "I can't think of anything better," Bonnie responded against Lucy's ear. Bonnie made her way down Lucy's body until she was kneeling in front of her. Her hands ran up and down Lucy's sides before encouraging the blonde to spread her legs a little wider. Lucy cried out and reached out to grasp hold of the rocks to support herself as Bonnie's mouth took possession of her and brought her to climax with her talented tongue over and over again until she couldn't take anymore and the brunette had to help her walk back onto solid ground. They lay down on the blanket side by side, allowing the sun to dry their flesh and ended up falling asleep in one another's arms.

  CHAPTER FORTY

  Lucy woke with a shiver and the sound of distant thunder. She shook Bonnie awake and suggested they get dressed and pack up before the rain hit. They made it back to the cabin within minutes of the first few drops of rain. The temperature had dropped dramatically with the sudden shift in the weather and they shared a shower before preparing dinner together, laughing, talking and enjoying playful kisses and sharing small bites of food.

  After dinner they lit a fire and snuggled together on the couch watching a movie that they barely paid attention to, preferring to talk softly with one another and just absorb the feeling of perfect contentment that they were experiencing together. "Do we even need to go back?" Bonnie questioned softly, her eyes closed as Lucy ran her fingers through her long, dark hair.

  Both women jumped when the phone rang taking them both completely by surprise. "Jesus, I forgot that there was even a phone in here!" Bonnie exclaimed as Lucy disentangled herself from her position and went to pick up the receiver.

  "It's probably just Old Man Taylor," Lucy remarked before pushing the button and greeting whoever was on the other end. Bonnie watched Lucy's face drop and a scowl crossed her face as she answered the person on the phone with curt yes's and no's.

  "Lucy? Who is it? What's the matter." Bonnie was about to get up and go to the blonde's side when Lucy instead came to her and handed her the phone. Bonnie's eyebrows rose in question as she took the handset from Lucy.

  "Just listen. I'm going to go lay down. I'm suddenly not feeling well," Lucy muttered before retreating down the hall.

  What the hell!, Bonnie thought as she watched Lucy disappear. She wanted to just hang up the phone and go to Lucy, who was obviously upset, but she needed to know who had caused it first. She put the receiver to her ear and said a barely controlled hello into the phone.

  "Hello, Bonnie."

  "Well, if it isn't our hitchhiking thi
ef. What a pleasant surprise," Bonnie responded in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

  "I guess I deserve that," Lexi responded, her voice even and carefree.

  "You deserve to be strung up for what you did!" Bonnie hissed, her voice angry that the young woman on the other end didn't even seem an ounce of remorse for what she had done.

  "Please just listen and then if you still want to chase me down and give me a flogging for doing the only thing I have ever known how to do, I'll give you my location. Okay?," Lexi responded curtly. She didn't even know why she was doing this. Why she even cared.

  "Fine! I'm listening just make it quick, Lucy left quite freaked out and upset with whatever you had to say." Bonnie listened as Lexi told her everything she had found out about the police and Zephyr.

  "So I suggest you stay where you are for a while if you are able to. I am planning to talk to this detective Holden again and I will find out just how badly they are wanting to talk to you and Lucy. My sources say that they have enough evidence against that bastard to put him away for several lifetimes and if it wasn't for you he would still be out there. They owe you for dumping that monster in their lap."

  "And you? Why are you doing this? What do you care what happens to us?"

  Lexi laughed into the receiver, "Honestly?"

  "That'd be nice." Bonnie was up and pacing the lounge room, her mind working frantically with all the information this unlikely source had provided her.

  "I felt bad and trust me when I say that that has NEVER happened before. I liked you and Lucy and I know I royally screwed you both over, but I am hoping that my cooperation with the police, defending you and pointing the finger at the real villain can at least make up for what I did. I'm sorry, Bonnie. For robbing you and for what you and Lucy went through that night," Lexi said, her voice for the first time showing Bonnie that she was indeed sorry for what she had done to them.

  She sensed something else through the connection and Bonnie was surprised that she found herself wanting to forgive the young woman. She had enjoyed the girls' company and she had felt that they could have been friends. That was why she had given Lexi her number in the roadhouse, though of course she had then stolen Bonnie's phone. "Is there anything else you would like to say before I hang up?"

  "There is but it's ridiculous and I don't want to waste anymore of your time. Please tell Lucy I'm sorry and that I wished the circumstances were different..."

  "What do you think would have happened if you hadn't done what you did that night?" There was a sense of vulnerability about the woman on the other end of the line and Bonnie felt like she should reach out if she was able to. "I forgive you, Lexi," she said.

  "Thank you, Bonnie. I feel like we could have been great friends under different circumstances and I have never felt that before. It was....nice. The time I spent with you and Lucy, I mean, and I will never forget it. There will be two new phones delivered to the cabin in the next couple of days. I know you were supposed to head back tomorrow, but I would really like you to stay up there for a little while until I can find out exactly how eager they are to talk to you."

  "Okay. I will talk it over with Lucy. Thank you Lexi and I am not opposed to perhaps talking in the future. I felt we could have been friends too. I have to go now. I need to check on Lucy."

  "Did you tell her how you felt. I'm sorry, you don't have to answer that. It's really none of my business."

  Bonnie smiled. She really did feel a certain sense of connection to Lexi, like what a big sister would feel towards a younger sibling. "I did tell her. Good bye, Lexi."

  "Good bye, Bonnie."

  Lexi hung up the pay phone and placed another call to Detective Holden. She then headed into the diner directly across the street from the police station and waited.

  CHAPTER FORTY ONE

  Bonnie found the door to the main bedroom, pushed to so that there was only a sliver of light coming through the gap. She called out the blonde's name and knocked on the door, then waited for Lucy to grant her access to the room.

  "Come in, Bonnie. You don't have to knock, it's your room too now."

  Bonnie entered the room to find Lucy laying on the bed, curled on her side facing the glass doors that looked out over the lake. "Are you alright?"

  Lucy let out a weary sigh and said, "I think so. I wasn't expecting it to be her and her news wasn't exactly a ray of sunshine. It brought it all back and how close I came to becoming one of his victims."

  Bonnie climbed onto the bed and crawled over to lay behind Lucy and placed an arm around her in support. "He won't hurt anyone again, baby. Lexi said that the evidence they have against him is overwhelming. The only reason he wasn't caught sooner was because they didn't have his DNA on file."

  "Hmm....I guess he never counted on a brave and beautiful brunette charging in to save her friend and leaving him broken and bloody."

  "It wasn't bravery, Lucy. There was no thought about what I did, it was instinct and fury that he thought he had the right to even touch you, let alone hurt you! Fucking bastard, I wish he had died!"

  Lucy turned around to face Bonnie, "Don't say that, baby. Then you would be in more trouble than we already probably are."

  "You think we are in trouble? After finding out that he is a serial rapist and murderer. I doubt it, Lucy. I practically handed him to the cops on a silver platter, all tied up in a pretty pink bow, surely they wouldn't charge us with anything."

  Lucy gazed at Bonnie silently for a moment before nodding. "Perhaps you are right, but why would Lexi suggest we don't go back for a while if we aren't going to get into trouble?"

  "I think she wants to see if the detective's have enough to get him put away without involving us at all. Would you prefer to give a statement and perhaps testify about what happened that night? If you do, we can pack up and head back to town and then go to the police together."

  Lucy shuddered and shook her head, "No. I don't want to relive that moment and I certainly never want to see his face again for as long as I live!"

  Bonnie caressed Lucy's face and hair in a soothing manner and said softly, "Then we should stay here and wait for Lexi to give us more information. We were planning on moving here anyway. I don't care if we ever go back to the city. I just want to start living my life with you."

  "What about your job? Our belongings? And are we really going to trust the girl who robbed us blind?"

  "I really do believe that Lexi's heart is in the right place, Lucy. She regrets what she did and I don't know why, but I trust her. I think she has had a hard life and all she needs is someone to give her a chance, an opportunity to be more than a common thief."

  Lucy smiled at Bonnie, "You have always been quick to forgive and believe in even the most lost causes, sweetheart. You have such a big heart." Lucy sat up slightly and leaned her head in her hand with her elbow and upper arm supporting her. "But you aren't suggesting just staying another couple of days, are you? You are suggesting that we don't go back, that we leave everything behind?"

  Bonnie sat up, crossing her legs as she nodded her head. "Why not?"

  "What about your job? Our homes and stuff?"

  "My bar tending job isn't important. I was just using the money to get by, because I was struggling with my writing and I hadn't had any positive responses from the last lot of publishing houses I sent my manuscript to. I can get Poppa Joe or my mother to pack up my stuff and send me what I need. My lease is up soon anyway. Can you do the same with your place?"

  Bonnie was making everything sound so easy. Was it? "Well, I could always ask Gretchen to do it," Lucy mused more to herself than to Bonnie.

  "Gretchen? Who's this Gretchen? I don't remember you mentioning her before."

  Lucy laughed delightfully at the jealousy in Bonnie's tone and the brunette crossed her arms and pouted at the blonde. "It's not funny, Lucy! I'm serious. Who is she? I thought I had met all your close friends."

  Lucy leaned forward and gave Bonnie a soft, gentle kiss on the lips before sett
ling back into her comfortable position. "I only just got back into contact with her, Sweetheart. She is the old friend I talked about, the friend that owns the gallery. Her and her husband have been very supportive since Nadine left. She had always wanted to buy the pictures you are so fond of on my wall." Lucy's eyes sparkled and she laughed as she remembered Gretchen asking every single time they talked on the phone whether she was ready to sell them yet. "She would up the price every single time we talked. We lost contact for a while after she got married and started expanding the gallery. I am actually starting to think about drawing more nude portraits. They sell extremely well and I love to draw the female form."

  Bonnie frowned, "that would mean you would be looking at naked women all day, right?"

  "Well, for long periods of time. Yes. But it would only be with one woman. I would do an entire series of pictures in different poses and forms using the same subject."