Grad student Andrea is mostly self-assured and quite open to whatever the world might bring her way. She's sensible, but she's got a quiet belief in the supernatural and a daytime interest in studying history, and finds herself surprised to be falling head over heels for the older woman she just met. Liz is thrilled to have made a new best friend. Overjoyed with how well they click, how well her son likes Andrea, how much fun they have together, and how easily she can open up, Liz finally considers it might be more. Blissfully in love, Liz relishes in how all this makes her feel, and how it's almost made her forget that high school boyfriend she's been grieving over for a couple decades. But maybe things are too good to be true? A family dinner brings up questions for Liz. Questions that prove difficult to answer, and possible answers that defy logic and reason.

Eternally Yours

“Really? ‘Best first kisses in history’ you say? Sounds like the girl should start charging for such a privilege!” He dodged the comb she threw at him, and laughed at her indignant glare as she continued her nervous ramblings.


“It’s just, she’s so young, and most of the time I don’t think about it—she seems older, you know? But what about if we get to the point of undressing? I’m not twenty-five years old anymore, Gabe!” She gestured vaguely up and down her body saying, “Even when I was, I was never the model figure. Now I’m older, I’ve got crow’s feet, grey hairs, and well, things have…shiftedover the years, and they won’t have for her. Oh hell, what have I done?”


Gabriel raised his eyebrows a bit and observed, “She hasn’t even gotten here yet, and you’re already planning to get naked? Sounds like a promising evening to me, you shifty, old hornball.”


Chapter 9