"What?" Tara asked.

"It's nothing," Karen said. "I just . . . I remember promising you some one-on-one time," the older woman said while blushing, "but you're probably not interested."

"Says who?!?" Tara said, grinning from ear to ear. "I'm a little bent, but I'm not broken. Seriously, I want to. Carlos was only one of my problems. Now that I'm seeing that I have other problems, I don't need to have sex to hide from them. Now, I can just have sex because I want to."

"Are you sure?" Karen asked.

Tara's grin was positively wicked. "Start the car, and I'll show you how serious I am!"

Karen revved...