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The Woman I Love
Cabin On The Lake
by G. S. Binkley
© 2001 Binkley
Synopsis: The Woman I Love is about a beautiful television star on vacation with her family who meets a writer who in turn challenges and changes her life forever as she finds true love in a cabin on the lake.
Sexual Content: F/F partners with implied
F/M relationship
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
· Uber Fiction (Alternative)
Chapter One
Lacy Levine’s long legs hurried down the corridor at LAX with her young
daughter, Danielle, by her side, both toting their carryon bags.
Looking back over his broad shoulder, David Levine, called to his
television star wife, “Will you two hurry up.”
With a sharp jerk, David pulled at his son moving him along faster as he
navigated around several other passengers en route to their perspective flights.
Oblivious to his father, Lacy noticed her three year old son’s
unbalanced wobble.
She nudged Danielle ahead, letting go of her hand, “Dani, you go with
your dad while I get Derek.”
Dani happily skipped ahead of her raven-haired mother, allowing Lacy to
rescue Derek from her pre-occupied husband then Dani grabbed her father’s
hand, pulling him forward.
With loving gray eyes that matched his fathers, Derek smiled shyly at his
mother as she scooped him up into her arms.
His mother quickly kissed his cheek and readjusted her bag, before
dashing off to find the rest of her family.
Slightly out of breath, Lacy spotted Dani talking with an older woman
seated near a window.
With David nowhere in sight, her piercing blue eyes scanned the area
quickly falling on her wayward husband in a heated discussion with a flight
attendant.
Lacy walked up to her daughter, sitting her bag down along with her son.
Derek quickly anchored himself on to his mother’s slender leg then
looked at his sister and her new friend.
Lacy sat down on a nearby seat, holding on to her son while addressing
Dani.
“Who’s your new friend?”
Anxious to show off, Dani said,
“This is Grace.
She’s 79 years old and married her high school sweetheart, has three
kids and fourteen grandchildren and… nine great-grandchildren.”
There was a time when Lacy would have been surprised at all the
information her daughter seemed to squeeze out of strangers in a short amount of
time, but she had come to expect it of her curious and outgoing eight year old.
“And, Grace…..”
Grace Davidson interrupted the young girl’s dissertation.
“Fifteen, remember, I said my youngest just had a little girl.”
Dani
spared the older woman a quick challenging glance for correcting her, but that
expression held court for only a short moment before blooming into a full fledge
smile.
“Anyway, her husband’s dead now.” Crossing her arms, daring the old
lady to contradict her.
Grace
smiled sweetly, turning her attention to the young boy holding on to his mother’s
leg as if his life depended on it.
“What’s your name, little one?”
Derek
shoved his face deeper against his mother’s thigh.
Dani tugged at Grace’s arm.
“Derek.
But he won’t talk to you.
You’re a stranger.”
“He’s
a little shy.”
Lacy inserted, stroking her son’s short dark hair.
Extending her other hand to Grace, she said,
“My name’s Lacy Levine.”
The
old woman recognized the television star immediately upon seeing her.
“I know.
I watch your show on TV.
I was sorry to hear it’s going off the air.
There aren’t many shows with strong women in them.”
Grace shifted in her seat as Dani nudged closer to her.
Before
Lacy could respond, her ever-boisterous daughter explained.
“Mom needed a vacation.”
She glanced at her mother making sure she hadn’t overstepped her
boundaries, catching the approving smile from her mother, Dani then added
adamantly, “And we did too.”
Grace
remained interested as Lacy took up where her daughter left off.
“We’re vacationing at a lake where my grandparents used to have a
cabin.”
“They’re
dead now.”
Dani added as a matter-of-factly.
“Yes,
anyway, it’s been ages since I’ve been there.”
Lacy smiled at the memories that flooded her mind.
“My brothers and I had such a great time there when we were little and
I…wanted to share that experience with my kids.”
Lacy was surprised, having divulged this information to a relative
stranger, but then again her daughter had a way of making everyone they
encountered familiar almost like family.
“Mom
has a sister too.
She’s my aunt… and my godmother.”
Dani stated proudly causing Grace to smile warmly at the confident young
girl in front of her.
Lacy
continued.
“Anyway, after six long seasons, it was time to move on and I wanted to
spend more time with my children.”
Lacy’s beautiful features turned sad.
“I’ve missed so much these last few years.”
Grace
touched Lacy’s arm gently in reassurance.
“They do grow up fast, don’t they?
But, now, you and your family can have a great time together on vacation.”
“Not
all of our family.”
Dani’s bright blue eyes turned steely.
“Dad can’t come with us.
He’s too busy.”
Dani’s initial hurt feelings when her father explained he wouldn’t be
going with them turned into a rare show of anger.
It subsided a bit when he offered her some hope that he would try to meet
up with them within the week.
With
determination, David headed for his family and plopped down between Grace and
his wife.
Facing Lacy, he vented. “You won’t believe this.
They’re running late… some kind of mechanical problem.”
Glancing at his watch, David rubbed his neck.
“I don’t have time to sit here and wait.”
Tugging
at his sleeve, Dani pulled him around.
“Daddy, this is my new friend, Grace.”
Reluctantly,
he shifted around slightly, throwing an off-handed greeting.
“Hi.”
Turning back to his wife, he offered.
“Listen, babe, I really need to get going.
But, before I do, I’ll try to light a fire under these guys again so
you won’t have to wait long.”
“David,
we’re not in a hurry.”
Lacy assured her husband.
“That’s
not the point.
They say the plane will leave at ten then it should leave at ten.
There are schedules to keep, you know.” David was a man who lived by a
schedule his whole life, and it suited his present profession as producer and
director to a tee.
Keeping on schedule meant staying within budget and gave order to his
life. If
I ran my company the way they run this airline, I’d be out of business, over
budget and looking for a new line of work.
“Excuse
me, Mr. Levine.”
Drawing David from his thoughts, Grace continued.
“If there is something wrong with the airplane, I, for one, am willing
to wait for as long as it takes.”
“Time
is money.” David briskly countered.
“More
important than the safety of your family?”
The new grandmother pointed out politely.
Getting
David’s full attention, he turned around sternly eyeing the old woman who was
holding onto his daughter. “Of course not. My family is of the utmost
importance.”
David glared at the old woman before him seizing his daughter from Grace’s
clutches.
Aware
of her husband’s short temper, Lacy interceded before a verbal altercation
could take root.
“David, we’ll be all right here.
I know you have a meeting.”
Bolting
up, David grabbed his wife urging her away from Grace in order to garnish some
privacy.
Lacy picked up Derek as David shoved his daughter along with him.
He stopped a few feet away, glancing back to the old woman then turned
back to his wife.
“All right, if you want, I’ll go ahead and get to that meeting.”
Lacy
moved in closer, staring directly into her husband’s gray eyes, she searched
for some reassurance.
“Remember, you promised to come out next week.”
David
gave his wife a quick peck on the lips.
“At the latest.”
He dropped down to his daughter and hugged her.
“You be good for your daddy, okay?”
Blue eyes turned teary.
“Honey…..”
David began, but Dani shunned her father, turning away so he gently
twisted her back around.
“Sometimes you don’t always get what you want.
I’d rather be with you and Derek and your mommy, but first I’ve got
to work.
Do you understand that?”
His shoulders dropped, exasperated, his voice taking on a harsher edge.
“Besides, I’ll see you next week.”
Sadly,
Dani asked.
“Does work always have to come first?”
With
no words to offer his daughter, he hugged her tightly.
Dani held on never wanting to let go.
The little girl prayed her father would keep his word this time.
Reluctantly
letting go of his daughter, David rose letting his eyes fall on his son, still
clinging to his mother.
“Never thought I’d have a momma’s boy,” he grumbled.
“David!”
Lacy said sternly, fire blue eyes flaring.
David
reached for his only son, coaxing him trying to get his attention.
“Derek, come here.”
The three year old determinedly remained in his mother’s arms.
“Aww, hell, I don’t have time for this.
Come here!”
David raised his voice as he took hold of his son.
But, Derek let his stubborn streak shine through in defiance of his
father.
Frustrated, David’s anger blared as his face turned red, which did not
go unnoticed by his daughter.
Retrieving
Derek from her producer husband, Lacy shielded her son placing him on her side
away from David.
“You go on and get to that all important meeting. Your family wouldn’t
want to make you late.”
Lacy’s sarcastic tone grated against her husband.
“I
don’t need this, you know.”
David warned.
The last six years had taken a toll on their relationship and David wasn’t
happy when Lacy informed him a year ago that she was quitting her television
show at the end of the sixth season. David planned to do at least two more
seasons of the successful cop show starring his wife and her co-star Hayston
Rawlings.
Yanking
on his shirt, Dani successfully drew her father’s attention away from her
mother.
“Dad, are you mad at us?”
She didn’t want anything standing in the way of her father joining them
on vacation next week as he promised.
A
reluctant smile spread across his face.
“No, hon. I’m not.”
“Are
you mad at Derek?
He really likes you.
But…..”
Dani hesitated.
“sometimes, you sorta scare him.”
An
unconscious smirk ran across his face at his daughter’s words.
Great, I have a son who’s a
scardy cat.
If David had chosen to examine his words, he would have realized that
he was not concerned that he was the source of his son’s fearfulness.
His concern riveted on the fact that he felt his son was going to be a
wimp of a man when he grew up. This was something that was unacceptable to him
as a father. It was times like these that David questioned Derek’s parentage.
Drawing
David from his selfish musings, Lacy suggested.
“ David, maybe you should go now.”
Reluctantly,
David offered.
“ I guess I could stay a while longer.”
“No.
We’ll be fine.”
She leaned over to kiss him diverting her lips to his cheek instead of
the lips he offered.
“Just make sure you show up later.
I don’t want you to disappoint Dani again.”
She whispered in his ear before moving away and reaching for their young
daughter.
Through
a strained voice, David explained.
“Do I have to clarify this again?
The head of the studio, Ron Griffen, remember him?
Your boss and mine…..demanded that I stay and make sure post production
is complete.”
“And
your partner, Ryan White, remember him?”
Lacy’s words ricocheted back at him matching his sarcastic tone.
“Volunteered to take care of everything so you could be with us.
We haven’t had a family vacation in over six years.”
“I
don’t want to argue about this, Lacy.”
Ushering
Dani ahead of her, she tossed the shared sentiment over her shoulder at him.
“Good.
Neither do I.”
As
David watched his family walk back to sit next to the old woman, his shoulders
slumped in frustration.
He couldn’t understand why she didn’t accept his explanation. My God, you’d think she thought I was lying about it. It was then
a little voice in his head proffered, are
you? Turning sharply on his heels, David briskly marched away.
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