A Woman Like You: Book Two (The Woman I Love Series 2) Read online

  ~A WOMAN LIKE YOU~

  Book Two

  The Woman I Love Series

  written by

  G. S. Binkley

  © 2001 Binkley

  ©2014 Binkley Cover art and Design

  Synopsis: A WOMAN LIKE YOU is the second story in THE WOMAN I LOVE series. Lacy Levine and Gage Ballant continue their lives together while the actress makes a movie with the dashing Koda Kannon and Gage meets her partner’s family. Unsteadily, Gage enters Lacy’s tinsel town world as their relationship faces a turbulent sea of social stigma plus work and family concerns while several jealous storms rise. Lacy and Gage ride this rocky boat with Dani, Derek and the birth of the star’s third child all the while holding steadfastly together. This story starts before the Epilogue in the first story THE WOMAN I LOVE.

  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, ©2001 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

  Here Comes My Woman

  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

  G. S. Binkley

  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 – February

  Chapter Twenty - March

  Chapter Twenty-One - April

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Afterthought

  Chapter One

  Lacy Levine felt the rising steam from the hot water encase her, drowning her long naked frame in a bath of pure pleasure. Soapy hands glided over her body, lingering, tantalizing, every inch as Lacy fell blissfully into the familiar touch. When two determined hands twisted the young woman around, green met blue in a flash of recognition that shot straight through the heart and into the soul. “You want me?”

  Hungry lips crushed willing ones. “Mmmmmmm. Yes.”

  “You love me?” Lacy husked.

  Smothering the tall woman with kisses, Gage Ballant smiled seductively. “You are the quintessential actor, an international celebrity…”

  In between heated kisses stealing the breath from her, Lacy barely countered. “I don’t like that word.”

  Silencing the woman in her arms, Gage continued. “… a world class woman and, you are beautiful, sexy, wonderful…” Gage brushed an eager tongue against Lacy’s lower lip. “…a great mother, kind, generous and, well, perfect in every way. Who wouldn’t love a woman like you?”

  “The question is….. who better?” Lacy flashed her piercing blue eyes commanding her lover to, well, love her.

  And Gage did just that embarking on a journey she hoped to take a million times over. The blonde haired woman wrapped her arms around Lacy, pulling her closer. Their two bodies met in an exotic dance as they glided against each other exploring, claiming, conquering, capturing every sensation in their rapturous lovemaking.

  Gage left a trail of light kisses down the star’s long neck, pausing momentarily at her collarbone as she sucked lightly then proceeded lower. As the blonde opened hungry lips to capture the perfect breast before her, Lacy whispered seductively. “I want to play Jordan.”

  Stymied momentarily by that statement, Gage felt Lacy press against her closing the short distance between them as the older woman willingly accepted the proffered nipple. Trying desperately to decipher Lacy’s statement, Gage continued to suckle the delectable mound. “What do you mean ‘play Jordan’? Is this some kind of se…..” Even the writer in Gage couldn’t spit out the word so she skipped straight ahead to the next one. “….. game? Do we have to dress the part?”

  A delicious laugh escaped Lacy, vibrating her body against her lover. “No, I mean in your screenplay ‘Here Comes Jordan’.” Busy hands kept Lacy slightly off balanced as she struggled to stand. Since Gage was the one causing these dizzying sensations, Lacy figured her lover should be the one to correct it so she wrapped her long legs around Gage’s waist. When she did, Gage pinned her up against the shower wall.

  “Mmmm. I don’t know about that. I’m sure there are lots of good actresses who will want to play the part.”

  “What can I do to prove to you…..it belongs to me?” Lacy lifted the blonde head that had been happily anchored at its port, sucking away. Disappointment in green eyes melted immediately when Gage recognized that familiar seductive look Lacy harbored only for her. “That you belong to me.” Lacy finished.

  Caught in the sensual trance, Gage wiggled her eyebrows. “Have you ever heard of a screen test?”

  “I think you mean the casting couch?”

  “Now, that you brought it up.” Gage smiled enthusiastically.

  Lacy looked down both their bodies then met Gage’s waiting green eyes again. “I don’t think I could get anymore naked than I am now.”

  “Darn, and not a couch in sight.” Gage laughed against smooth, silky water beaded skin.

  “Then whatever will we do?” Lacy teased.

  “Anything.” Gage dropped her voice to a whisper. “Everything.”

  Several hours later, satiated, they had begun the journey of doing everything with and to each other that would last a lifetime and beyond.

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  In the silence of the night, Lacy felt Gage sigh deeply as she lay against her chest. But, it was her lover’s heartbeat thumping faster than usual that concerned her. The raven-haired woman looked up gazing on the soft features of her lover highlighted by a stream of moonlight peeping its way through the window. “Sweetheart, what’s wrong?”

  Gage smiled back at her partner then gently stroked Lacy’s face. “Nothing. Not really.”

  “I know we haven’t known each other for that long but I can
tell something’s bothering you.” Lacy returned her head to rest on the chest below her. Feeling Gage suck in a deep breath, Lacy beseeched her. “Please tell me.”

  “I was just thinking…” Another deep breath. “About us.”

  Lacy quickly shifted up to lay beside Gage so she could look into her lover’s eyes. Facing each other as they laid on their sides, Lacy hesitantly asked. “Everything’s okay with us, right? I mean….”

  Gage silenced the beautiful woman beside her with a sweet kiss. “I was thinking that… how it’s just been us and the kids for the last few weeks and…well, now we have to let the outside world in.”

  “I know.” Lacy agreed somberly.

  “I hadn’t thought about it much, but we’re from two different worlds really. I…..I…..” Gage stumbled with her words.

  “Go on. Tell me.”

  “I…. I don’t do fancy well.” Gage admitted, dropping her eyelids down in an attempt to shield her discomfort.

  “What do you mean ‘fancy’?” Lacy was very intrigued now.

  “Lacy, what I said earlier is true.” Shyly meeting concerned blue eyes. “You are a woman of the world….world class. You’re the kind of woman that could stroll gracefully through any walk of life as if you owned it. And you would.” Gage finally allowed a small smile to accentuate the truth of her words. “I… I’m not sure how I’ll fit in…. in your world.”

  “Sweetheart, you are my world.” Lacy lifted the down turned chin of her partner and sealed her affirmation with a gentle kiss. “Well, you and the kids.”

  Gage smiled warmly. Yes, who could forget the astoundingly precocious

  Dani and the delectable munchkin Derek. “I guess I’m worried about meeting your family and….”

  Lacy quickly interrupted. “I should have asked before I told my mother that I’d bring you with us.”

  “It’s okay, really. It’s just….” Gage took a moment to formulate her next words. “….what are they going to think? About you and David breaking up and to top it off….having someone new in your life already. Not even being divorced yet.”

  Lacy sighed. “Mom figured out a long time ago that David and I were having problems especially since I chose to quit the show.” Her husband had grand plans to continue the highly successful cop show, CRACKDOWN, for at least two more years when Lacy stunned everyone by announcing that at the end of the fifth season she would be quitting to concentrate on her family. This wasn’t the only rip in the seam of their shaky marriage, but it was the one that destroyed the very fabric of their lives.

  “Do they like David?”

  “Yes, somewhat…. I guess. But over the years they realized how success driven he was and how it affected our family. So, they’ll take it okay. It won’t be near like the time I divorced my first husband. Now, that created an uproar.”

  Gage shifted up, propping herself on her elbow. “They liked him that much, huh?”

  Lacy eased over lying more on her back now. “Jason was and is my older brother’s best friend.”

  “Denny?” Gage quizzed.

  “No, Hank. The one that played the trick on me in that cave.” Lacy said allowing a dark memory to rise.

  Astutely, Gage recognized where Lacy’s mind had traveled. Just recently her daughter, Dani, shared the same experience of being lost in the very same cave Lacy had when she was a teenager. Gage pulled her lover close, wrapping her arms around her then the blonde jacked her leg over Lacy securely.

  “Anyway, everyone thought we were a match made in heaven and being a Catholic family…… you get the picture.” Lacy let out a disturbed breath. “Lisa, my sister, was really irate. But, I think that was because she had a crush on Jason. For a long time, I think some of them wished that’d we’d get back together eventually.”

  Gage frowned. “And when I show up?”

  Lacy looked deeply into desperate green eyes. “They will love you just like I do. Anyway, it only matters what the kids and I think since we’re the ones that are going to have to put up with you.”

  “Put up with me?” Gage let out a mock exasperated sigh. “The second day you arrived here I was the one who had to put you and the kids up after the break in at your cabin.” Gage allowed a wide grin. “And it was my pleasure.”

  Lacy shifted closer. “It became both our pleasures.”

  Remembering the handsome deputy sheriff taking way too much interest in the television star as he interviewed her after the break in, Gage sarcastically spewed out. “After the way that deputy was fawning all over you. ‘Can I take you to a hotel, Mrs. Levine? Can I leer at your legs, touch your sexy body’. You’d have thought that he was devouring you right there on the spot.”

  “Jealous?” Lacy caught a mischievous look cross Gage’s face. “I know, I know, you don’t have green eyes for nothing.” A small chuckle escaped before turning serious then Lacy continued. “Now, tell me what you mean when you say ‘fancy’?”

  “Back to that, huh?” Gage shifted slightly while still stroking Lacy’s firm stomach. “You know, all those fancy type parties you go to. World premieres….. award shows. The whole movie star gamut.”

  “Is that all? I thought you were worried about how my family will take us… two females together.” Lacy slung the erroneous social stigma out into the open fresh from the closet.

  “Yeah, then there’s that, too.” Gage confirmed. “Lacy, I am who I am. I don’t ever want to shame you or embarrass you in front of your family or in your world.” Gage pulled her lover onto her side gazing deeply into the bluest eyes she’d ever seen. “I would die for you. More than that I would live for you. But most of all, I would change for you, Lacy. Just….it may take some time though.”

  “Sweetheart, listen to me, I love you just the way you are.” Lacy gently kissed her partner in an attempt to quell Gage’s valid concerns about their future even though the younger woman silently admitted that the challenges they were facing would test their love.

  Hungry to believe Lacy’s reassuring words, Gage slipped on top of her partner coming to rest between the star’s legs. “Let me love you… please. I need…. I need to feel so much…”

  Before another word was spoken, Lacy snared her lover’s mouth, devouring it in a battle that erupted the smoldering flames raging just below the surface in both women. Before dawn greeted them, Lacy and Gage traversed the heavens in a dance of lovemaking unequalled thus far in their relationship soothing their troubled minds.

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  The early morning sun brought along with it an early riser. Dani poked and prodded her three-year-old brother, Derek, out of his peaceful sleep. “Come on, Derek. This is our last day here and we got lots to do. Then we’re going to grandma and grandpas for my birthday. Don’t you want to see them?” She pursed her lips when her brother wouldn’t move. “Fine, we’ll do it the hard way.”

  Dragging her sleepy brother behind her, Dani found her mother and Gage in their bedroom packing some bags as they prepared for their departure. Derek perked up when he saw his hero. “Jage.” Derek ran to her, jumping into his very own safety net. Gage dropped the bag in her hand just in time to catch the little daredevil.

  “I’ve gotcha.” Falling on the bed, secure in Gage’s arms, Derek laughed.

  “Got you.” Derek countered then proceeded to tickle her.

  “Hey.” Gage protested.

  Dani jumped on the bed. “Here we go again. Come on, mom.”

  Tossing their clothes aside, Lacy joined her family on the huge bed. In the midst of their tickle fest, once again, Lacy found herself at the bottom of the pile being mercilessly assaulted. She let out a loud squeal leaving Derek smiling at his mother’s predicament while Dani scooted away when her mother retaliated. But, Gage swiftly put a stop to the counter attack capturing Lacy’s lips in a sweet and gentle kiss.

  “Jeez, do you two always have to do that?” Dani inquired while Derek giggled. Then an interesting thought popped into the eight-year-old’s head. “Do
you think Daddy will be there for my birthday?”

  Breaking the kiss hastily and staring into each other’s eyes, both Lacy and Gage silently shared the same thought. Great, I didn’t even think about that.

  Chapter Two

  The morning before Lacy, Gage and kids left the cabin on the lake en route to Lacy’s parent’s house Dani insisted on one last boat ride around the lake. She also carefully packed away her rock collection. Derek just enjoyed being with the people he loved most in life.

  The six-hour trip to Lacy’s childhood home was uneventful. When they finally arrived early that evening, they were met by Lynn and Daniel Lewis.

  Dani jumped into her grandfather’s arms, barely containing her excitement. “Grandpa, did you get a birthday present for me yet?”

  Lacy hugged her mother. “Hi, mom.”

  Eyeing her oldest daughter carefully, Lynn observed. “Honey, you look great. I’m glad.”

  “You too, mom.” Lacy then greeted her father. “Dad. I’ve missed you.”

  Before Daniel wrapped his arms around his daughter, he let Dani slip to the ground then the young girl quickly circled her grandmother’s waist. Daniel squeezed Lacy tightly. “It’s been a long time, young lady.”

  “I know.” Lacy admitted.

  “You’re here now and that’s all that matters.” Easing up on his hold, he looked straight into her blue eyes that matched his own. “I love you. And, we’ll always be here for you.” He whispered before turning his attention to the blonde woman holding his grandson.