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    Stop and Go (Lesbian Light Reads 11)
    Stop and Go (Lesbian Light Reads 11)
    Stop and Go (Lesbian Light Reads 11)
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    Stop and Go (Lesbian Light Reads 11)

    By Elizabeth Andre

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    Can a childhood crush become grown-up love?

    Krista Sutter has taken herself out of the dating pool after a bad breakup and moved from the American Midwest to Southeast Asia. The beautiful brunette wants to heal her heart and enjoy everything Laos has to offer. She expects nothing more than a few extra temple trips when Yancy Douglas, her childhood crush, comes to visit her.

    Yancy has never deprived herself when it comes to love, sex, and relationships, but she thinks she wants to get off the dating merry-go-round she’s been on for a while. Visiting Krista, her best friend’s kid sister in Laos, is just the break she needs. She didn’t expect to find her irresistible.

    The attraction they feel for each other is the easy part, especially when they are both so far from home. The hard part is seeing each other as who they really are and navigating love, sex, and dating once they both get home.

    Stop and Go is the eleventh book in the Lesbian Light Reads series, but each book stands alone. This lesbian contemporary love story includes graphic sex and is intended for adults only.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTulabella Ruby Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2018
    ISBN9781370048526
    Stop and Go (Lesbian Light Reads 11)
    Author

    Elizabeth Andre

    Elizabeth Andre is a lesbian in an interracial same-sex marriage. She lives in the Midwest and loves things that go bump in the night.

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      Stop and Go (Lesbian Light Reads 11) - Elizabeth Andre

      Stop and Go

      Lesbian Light Reads 11

      By

      Elizabeth Andre

      Published by Tulabella Ruby Press

      Copyright 2017 Elizabeth Andre/All Rights Reserved

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support.

      All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is strictly coincidental.

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      Editor: Cassandra Pierce

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      About Elizabeth Andre

      Connect with Elizabeth Andre

      Other Titles in the Lesbian Light Reads Series

      Other Titles by Elizabeth Andre

      Stop and Go

      Lesbian Light Reads 11

      by

      Elizabeth Andre

      Chapter One

      Krista

      Luang Prabang, Laos, early October

      It was a hot, muggy night, and I lost my crush.

      It was like this.

      With the onset of dusk, the market had become noticeably more crowded. Yancy and I had been admiring the hand-woven mats at one of the stalls in the city’s night market. Yancy was undecided between one that featured an eye-popping red color and another with more muted shades of green and blue. It was much easier for her to decide she needed dinner. I agreed. We stepped away from the stall.

      What happened next I’m not sure, but one moment Yancy was right behind me. The next moment she wasn’t. I tried to keep calm. I thought if I moved away from the tide of people going this way and that, I would see her. She was, after all, a tall African American woman. We were surrounded mostly by Laotians, who tended to be short. There was the occasional tourist who stood out because they were Caucasian like me, but there were too many people. It was after 8 o’clock. The sun had set, and the market was filled with masses of people browsing the stalls and looking for something to buy, sell, or eat.

      Sometimes staying in one place was a good idea, so the person you wanted to find could find you. But staying in place was next to impossible. I was jostled on all sides by tourists and locals alike. Any other time I wouldn’t have minded so much, but Yancy was my guest and this was her first time visiting Laos. More to the point, I’d had a crush on Yancy for years, ever since I was a little girl. I wanted to make a good impression, and now I’d lost her.

      Things had been going so well. We’d spent the first day or two of her visit catching up. That had segued into reminiscing about our childhoods. I’d nursed this huge crush on Yancy since the day Meredith, my older sister, brought her home with her after school one day when I was six and they were 13-year-olds in junior high. Yancy was like no one I’d ever seen before. If I’d known the words then, my six-year-old self would have described her as poised and self-possessed. She was enchanting. For years, I’d fantasized about touching her and just being with her. I’d been looking forward to Yancy’s visit for a few months now, ever since Meredith had mentioned that her best friend since childhood would be traveling through southeast Asia and would I mind if she dropped in on me for a few days. Would I mind? Of course not.

      This visit marked the first time I’d seen Yancy in the flesh in about eight years. Seeing pictures and the occasional video of her on social media was okay, but I had a feeling the pictures and videos didn’t do her justice. I was right. When I saw her again a few days ago getting off a truck that had been converted to a bus with the installation of some benches on the truck’s bed, I was surprised at how strong my attraction to her still was. I think I blushed. Despite enduring what I knew would have been a rough ride, her smile was radiant. Her hair, tousled from the ride, was dark brown with the short locks worked into twists framing her head. It was a look I knew I’d never be able to achieve with my stick-straight white girl hair.

      Now, as I slowly made my way back to the stall that sold the hand woven mats, I looked this way and that, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. I made it back to the stall, which was now swarming with even more people. I was just about to text her when I felt a hand on my shoulder.

      There you are. I thought I’d lost you. Before I turned to look, I felt her breath on my ear. I shivered.

      I could say the same. I looked down on her hand still on my shoulder and then at her. Her light brown eyes were watching the crowd.

      I’m right here, she said. "I’m starving. Let’s find some good food."

      I know just the place. I grabbed her hand and led her away from the stall. I kept a firm grip. I didn’t want there to be any chance we’d be separated again. The food stall I led us to was not that far away from where we were, but it still took us a bit longer to get there because of the crowd.

      When we arrived, we must have hit a lull because there weren’t as many people milling around as elsewhere in the market. Yancy gasped at the array of food on offer. Bowls of noodles slick with a salty-sweet gravy, chunks of ruby red watermelon, stir fried pumpkin, steamed sticky rice, spicy green papaya salad, a meat salad called larb, and many others beckoned us with their savory siren song. The skewers of grilled pork and chicken tantalized. I pointed out my favorites. I’d developed a particular love of chicken larb. I bought that and some watermelon. She picked out a couple of pork skewers and some noodles, and we found a corner of a table to sit and eat. We ate in silence with several plates in front of us. Maybe we had hit some kind of lull as well. It was a pleasant, companionable silence filled with the clatter of the market and a cacophony of several languages. It was like neither of us felt forced to talk just to talk. I saw a few familiar faces. I’d been working in Laos and Luang Prabang—a UNESCO world heritage site because of its many well-preserved Buddhist temples—for nearly a year, and I was beginning to feel at home.

      Yancy took a deep breath as she stripped the last bit of meat off of her skewer, sat back, and closed her eyes.

      Satisfied? I said.

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