Here Comes My Woman: Book Three (The Woman I Love Series 3)
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~HERE COMES MY WOMAN~
Book Three
The Woman I Love Series
written by
G. S. Binkley
© 2002 Binkley
©2014 Binkley Cover art and Design
Synopsis: HERE COMES MY WOMAN continues on with the lives of Lacy and Gage a few years later as the writer reveals more about her dark past. The dynamic duo work together on a movie while raising their family and someone from Gage’s past makes an unexpected appearance. This is the third story in the WOMAN I LOVE series. The second story is entitled A WOMAN LIKE YOU.
Sexual Content: F/F partners
Code:
L: Love between two people with kisses, embraces and tender moments.
LS: Love scenes described in more detail, involving scenes of lovemaking.
ES: Explicit love scenes.
· This story is rated: LS
· Fiction (Alternative)
This is copyrighted material, © 2002 Binkley…all rights reserved.
No part of this publication can be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the publisher (author).
This is a work of fiction. Names, Characters or incidents either or the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales are completely incidental.
other stories
by
g. s. binkley
Alternative
The Woman I Love
A Woman Like You
A Woman in Love
What A Woman
Murder at Fountain Blue
An Innocent Heart
Short Stories: Just the Way You Like It
Heart of Africa
Mainstream
Angel in Disguise
Murder at Red Rum
Murder at Knifepoint
Once Again, Alexis
Here Comes Jordan
About the Author
G. S. BINKLEY has the privilege to write the stories that many characters have come to reveal.
It is really their lives that seek an audience to share their stories.
** I write both mainstream and alternative stories. All my stories have a romantic element in them.
I hope you enjoy them.
Table of Contents
~HERE COMES MY WOMAN~
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
The End
Afterthought
Chapter One
An early morning sunray touched lightly upon Lacy Levine’s fair skin as the blonde next to her adoringly watched the woman she loved sleep. Gage Ballant ran her finger delicately along the dark haired woman’s chin and in response Lacy snuggled closer, allowing a small smile to bloom from the gentle touch.
“Morning.” Lacy yawned, stretching luxuriously against her lover. She met Gage in a soft kiss before realization dawned. “This is rare. You? Up this early.”
Gage smiled.
“Must be something important. Care to share?” Lacy asked, stroking the blonde’s backside, which always guaranteed a pleasurable response from her lover.
Gage moaned in contentment. “You. The most important person in my life. Waking up just to watch you sleep is more than reason enough. You’re beautiful.”
Pleased with her lover’s compliment, Lacy ripped back the silk sheet, revealing her naked form. With an arched eyebrow, Lacy offered herself to her lover.
Gage took advantage of the welcomed invitation, straddling the younger woman. Laying down fully atop her lover and postured for a full frontal attack, Gage leaned in closer. Dazzling green eyes flared seductively meeting waiting blue ones. Then just when Gage’s lips brushed ever so lightly against willing ones, a sudden loud bang interrupted her sexual assault. Gage jumped up, coming to a standing position over her lover.
Lacy ran calming and reassuring hands along her lover’s legs. “Sweetheart, I’m sure it’s just the boys.”
Gage’s shoulders slumped. “And, that’s the other reason I wanted to get up early.”
BOOM.
“Lacy, we have got to talk to your brother about starting later in the day.” She looked down at her lover and said seriously. “Offer him more money.”
Lacy laughed.
“Seriously,” Gage insisted, laying back down next to Lacy. “Tell him we’ll pay him more if he… say, comes an hour later.”
Lacy sat up. “And, why would we want that?”
Gage negotiated herself behind her lover, pressing against Lacy’s bare back. “So, we can come…. earlier.” The blonde husked suggestively.
Lacy looked back over her shoulder and kissed Gage. “Then the house would never get finished and….. we wouldn’t have any privacy.” Lacy slipped from her lover’s embrace. “I need to check on Sammy.”
BANG.
Pitching a fit, Gage pouted, refusing to get up. When another loud bang erupted, a low deep guttural moan escaped the blonde. Banging her own legs up and down against the bed, Gage yelped in frustration, vowing. “I will find a way to have my woman.”
“Sweetheart, you can be such a baby sometimes.” Wrapping herself in a robe, Lacy smiled at her frustrated lover before she slipped out of their bedroom door.
Watching Lacy leave, Gage groaned. “Ahhgggrrrr…”
Suddenly, Lacy peeked her head around the doorframe. “Tonight.” Then just as quickly disappeared.
“Yeeees!” Gage cocked her arm in victory.
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Fully dressed, Gage joined Lacy in the upstairs’ hall bathroom. “Need any help?”
“Mmmmm.” Lacy shifted her younger son to her other hip. The dark haired woman was definitely distracted as she gathered up a few items on the counter. “Here. Can you take him?”
Gage reached for Sammy but was met with resistance. The dark haired boy stubbornly clung to his mother. Further efforts by Gage were futile.
“No.” Sammy buried his head against his mother, squirming tightly.
With pursed lips, Gage tried again. “Come on, Sammy. Your momma needs to get ready.” He continued to ignore the blonde. “You want to go play outside?”
Shaking his head furiously, Sammy refused to budge.
Gage cocked her hands on her hips with an exaggerated flair. “I told you. He doesn’t like me. That’s all there is to it.”
“Gage, don’t be so dramatic. He just loves his mommy.” Lacy kissed her youngest son. “Don’t you, sweetheart?”
“So do I.” Gage smiled, attempting to get Lacy’s attention.
With his mother’s prompting, the young boy complied, falling reluctantly into the older woman’s arms. “Oh…and fix some breakfast.” Lacy asked with a questioning smile. “Please?”
Acquiescing to her lover’s request as always, Gage tightened her hold on the young boy and headed dutifully to the kitchen.
As Sammy patiently waited at the table, Gage opened the refrigerator. Gathering a few food items in her arms, she turned to meet the serious look on Lacy’s face. “What’s wrong?”
“I need another egg,” Lacy stated, matter of factly.
Gage sat the milk down on the counter and retrieved an egg from the carton she was holding. Handing it to Lacy, she grinned.
“Funny. Very funny.” Dejected, Lacy plopped down on the kitchen chair.
Quickly, Gage wrapped her arms around the distraught woman. “I’m sorry. I guess it didn’t come up your favorite color. Huh?”
“No.” Lacy watched Sammy wiggle, trying to escape his seat so he could get to her. She reached for him but Gage intercepted, gathering her young charge and placing him in Lacy’s arms. Feeling comforted temporarily as she held her son, Lacy sighed. “We’ll try again.”
Gage swirled around. She dropped to her knees, placing herself in front of Lacy. “No!” The blonde said harsher than she intended.
Shocked, Lacy pinned her partner with glaring blue eyes. “What are you saying? You don’t want this? I thought…”
Sliding her hands up Lacy’s thighs, Gage proceeded cautiously. “That’s not it, Lacy. It’s just that…” Hesitation dwelled precariously upon speaking her next words. “…it’s been so hard on you.”
“No more than you.”
“Lacy, I love you. And, although I want this baby as much as you do… I don’t want you to have to go through this again. We’ve tried for nearly a year now and…”
“You don’t think it’s going to happen, do you?” Unshed tears filled her blue eyes.
“I see how hard it is for you every time you… we try and nothing…” Her words fell silent. Long moments passed between them in quiet understanding. For the last year, Lacy had desperately tried to get pregnant. Using Gage’s egg, and with their close friend Mark Calico supplying the needed sperm to fertilize the egg, Lacy was going to give Gage the greatest gift of love she could think of. Carrying her baby.
Placing a soft touch to Gage’s cheek, Lacy forged ahead with determination. “I want to do this. I need to do this… for you.”
Gage started to protest.
“For me…. for us, really.” Lacy relented, finally sharing her unspoken reasons for her resolute decision. “Sweetheart, I know you feel… how can I say this? Like we’re a family…”
“I do.” Gage inserted quickly, wondering what Lacy was getting at.
“I know.” Lacy leaned in, kissing her. “We are very much a family in every way.”
“But?” Gage knew there was going to be a but somewhere in there.
“But, whether you want to admit it or not… there’s a part of you that still…. it’s as if you don’t feel….deserving of a family. There are times you hold back.”
Retreating, Gage dropped back on her heels. “That’s not true,” she stated in a small voice. However, it was true. No matter how hard Lacy had tried ever since they had been together to pry parts of Gage’s hidden past out, the blonde remained firm in keeping most of it buried.
Pulling Gage closer to her, Lacy continued. “Then why won’t you share parts of your life with me?”
Straining against her partner’s grasp, Gage turned her head away, focusing her downcast eyes on some distance spot. “It’s not important…”
“It is to me.” Lacy gently returned Gage to face her. “I love you, Gage. And, I want you fully, completely with me in every way. I want to know every aspect about you… your past, everything. Our future depends on it. Our family depends on it.”
“What are you saying?” Scrambling up from the floor, Gage retreated then lodged herself against the kitchen counter.
Lacy placed her son in his chair, offering him a small diagonal piece of toast Gage had meticulously cut. Sammy took the buttery slice and munched happily on it. With her son pre-occupied, Lacy wrapped her arms around her quiet partner. “Gage, sweetheart, I want this baby. Maybe it will…maybe you’ll feel. What I’m trying to say is that with a baby that is a part of you…and me then just maybe you’ll give yourself to me…us completely.”
Even though the argument was awkward and unsteady, Gage knew exactly what Lacy meant. She did, at times, remain aloof and indifferent toward fully committing herself to her new family. Although, Gage wholeheartedly gave to Lacy and all three of the children, doting on them with unconditional love, she remained at a distance just in case her new fragile world came tumbling down. By holding back her past, Gage was able to do two things. Creating a barrier would protect her from the hurt and pain of one day losing this family - like she had experienced years ago when she was given up for adoption. It also let Gage take the easy way out, instead of facing her tormented past and dealing with it head on.
“I’ll try.” Gage offered with less assurance than Lacy would have wanted.
“That’s all I can ask then.” Capturing her partner’s lips in a very sweet and reassuring kiss, Lacy willed her love, enveloping her partner. She hoped it would provide the security she felt Gage so desperately needed.
Strolling through the kitchen door, Jason McIntyre walked in on the pair in a lover’s embrace. Clearing his throat, the tall man caught the couple’s attention. “Sorry.”
Unfettered by her ex-husband’s presence, Lacy remained in Gage’s embrace. “Jason, good morning.” Lacy ducked in for a quick kiss from Gage. Without looking toward him, Lacy’s hungry eyes remained on her lover when she asked. “Want something to eat?” The dark haired woman smiled at Gage before continuing. “Where’s that brother of mine?”
Trying not to notice Lacy as she ran her hand up and down Gage’s arm, snuggling even closer, Jason answered her. “No, thank you…. he’s outside. Wants to talk with you about the deck.” Clearing his throat again, Jason hurried his next words. “After breakfast, of course. Excuse me.”
Kissing Gage deeply once again, Lacy laughed. “Do you think we scared him away?”
“No. I think he thinks you’re going to have me for breakfast.” Gage grinned as her hands roamed freely over her partner’s body.
Lacy and Gage shared the same sensual thought but Sammy had a different idea, banging his hands against the table and getting his mother’s full attention. “Momma…momma. Hold you. Now.”
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After talking with Lacy’s brother, Hank Lewis, and Jason about her plans for the deck, Gage strolled around their newly built home just outside of St. Troy with Lacy by her side. Sammy remained faithfully propped on his mother’s hip.
“Do you think we’ll be happy here?” Gage asked off-handedly.
Tugging on her partner’s hand, Lacy pulled Gage to a dead stop. “Why would you ask something like that?”
“Oh, I don’t know.” Gage shrugged, dropping Lacy’s hand. Focusing on the lakeshore only a couple hundred feet away from the house, the blonde said softly. “You’re used to so much… more.” Quickly, turning to meet her partner, Gage halted the dark-haired woman’s protest. “Hollywood. You know, the glamour, big homes… mansions.”
“And, this place isn’t big enough?” Lacy spread her arm out toward the $1.5 million dollar home they had built. “We have…. what? Twenty-five acres. A private lake cove that extends….”
“At least a mile and it’s not that private.” Gage moved closer to her lover. “That’s not what I mean anyway. Besides, most of it was your money.”
Lacy grunted a small laugh. “I wondered when that would come up.”
“What do you mean?” Gage retorted in surprise.
Grabbing the blonde’s reluctant hand again, Lacy led her down the path through a small rose garden. “Money. How much I have versus how much you have.”
“Well, it is a bit lopsided.” It was then Lacy gave her lover a lopsided grin before Gage finally relented. “Oh, I don’t want to argue about money.”
“If it really bothers you, sweetheart, I’ll make a deal with you.”
Gage perked up at the suggestion.
“You can be my loooove…slave.” Lacy’s arched an eyebrow seductively. “Do what I want, when I want…. whatever way I want it.” Lacy sashayed back to the house, fully aware of her lover’s eyes tracking her.
Gage called after her before hurrying to her side. “And that would be different … how?”
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After Lacy and Gage dropped off Sammy at his grandmother’s house, the couple headed to the doctor’s office to confirm what Lacy had already discovered.
Gage drove the curvy narrow Benton’s pass with care as she covertly watched her silent partner. “You miss them, too?”
Dropping her hand on her lover’s thigh, Lacy confirmed. “More than I ever thought I could…and it’s only been a few days.”
Placing her hand over Lacy’s, Gage reassured the younger woman. “They’ll be back with us in a little over a week. I’m sure everything’s fine.”
“You’re right. Stella’s with them.” Lacy nodded, reassuring herself.
Gage pursed her lips together. “Stella! Are you sure it was such a good idea hiring her. I know Julie vouched for her but…” Stella Smith came highly recommended by Julie Grant, head of Primrose Studios and Mark Calico’s girlfriend. The nanny had been with them for nearly eighteen months now and Gage was still wary of her.
“The kids love her. She worked for Julie for years and never once had a problem. I trust her.” Lacy was more concerned about her two oldest kids staying with her ex-husband and their father, David Levine. But, she was most concerned about her oldest son, Derek. It was a well-known fact that David was hard on their six-year-old son. “Dani won’t have a problem. She loves her father.”
“Yeah, she has a way of saying things and never getting in trouble. I don’t know how she does it.” Gage inserted.
“Derek on the other hand… I’m just glad Stella agreed to go along for his sake.”