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“I am determined to be the anti-Josh tonight,” Ainsley explained. “Do you want some Champagne?” she asked as the limo started moving.

Rachel did want some Champagne but instead she said, “In a minute.” She swallowed and then blurted out, “First, I want to kiss you.”

Ainsley pulled away enough to be able to look at her. Rachel was delighted to see that judging from the expression on Ainsley’s face, the idea of kissing her was exciting her friend.

“Is that so?” Ainsley asked in a low almost-growl which made her already sexy voice even sexier.

Rachel nodded.

“Fuck, I want to kiss you!” she said, staring at Ainsley’s lips, which tonight were lacquered with a soft pink gloss which made them so goddam inviting.

“I won’t stop you…” Ainsley assured her.

“But…”

“What?”

Rachel pulled back a little more so she could look at Ainsley even more. She tried to meet the doctor’s eyes but found it difficult.

“What if I don’t like it?” she asked quietly.

Ainsley nodded.

“OK, that’s a fair question,” she said.

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Rachel said. “I mean, I know that there’s been something going on between us for a while now, Ains, and I’ve been enjoying it so much and wanting to act on it. But this would be my first time and…”

“Hey, hey, hey!” Ainsley interjected. “It’s okay. It’s just a kiss. Under the circumstances, if you don’t like it then at least we tried it, right? Because you’re right…there’s been something going on between us and I think it’s about time we figured out if that something is going to actually turn into something else.”

“Are you sure?”

“Rach, let’s just find out,” Ainsley said. “And I won’t be offended or hurt, I promise.”

“I should make you pinky promise but I can’t stop touching you,” Rachel murmured. This was true. Her hands, one on Ainsley’s back, the other on the top of Ainsley’s left thigh, were right where she wanted them to be now.

“Guess you’ll just have to trust me,” Ainsley said, cocking her eyebrow.

And that did it.

Rachel had always found it oddly alluring whenever Ainsley cocked her eyebrow and this time was no different. Suddenly, her inhibitions and nervousness disappeared and she pressed her lips against Ainsley’s.

Instantly, below her waist, heat bloomed and tingles spread and that’s when she knew. She knew she shouldn’t have worried if she would like kissing Ainsley.

She loved kissing Ainsley.

The doctor’s lips were so amazingly soft and slippery because of that lip gloss and it seemed they belonged touching her lips. Groaning, she poked her tongue out and it was met by Ainsley’s and as the two tongues circled each other, Rachel loving how warm Ainsley’s was, she groaned even more, knowing that she was going to take this a lot further.

Bringing the hand that was on Ainsley’s thigh up, she cupped the back of Ainsley’s head and used it to hold those lips tighter against her own. Ainsley moaned and her tongue played with Rachel’s even more forcefully now, sending chills down Rachel’s spine, revving up her libido even more, causing her center to ache with want.

She wanted to experience more, as much as she could in this limo before they reached La Jolla. She wanted to unleash this new form of desire which had been growing in her ever since that moment thirteen days ago when she first saw Ainsley. A woman. A woman whom she craved.

She moved the hand cupping Ainsley’s head down and slid it slowly along Ainsley’s neck as they continued kissing. Then lower still, playing her fingers along Ainsley’s collarbone.

Ainsley whimpered.

Then lower still until finally Rachel’s hand was cupping another woman’s breast, Ainsley’s breast.

Their kiss broke then because Ainsley’s tilted her head back, gasping, exposing her neck, which Rachel then started licking, sucking and kissing as her hand marveled at the fullness of what her hand now covered. She flicked her thumb over the fabric of Ainsley’s dress and her clit throbbed when she detected Ainsley’s rock-hard nipple beneath it.