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but Taylor was swamped at work and couldn’t get away. They’d made plans for when Brett was to return, neither woman anxious to be away from the other for even one night. The relationship was too new and too fragile and trust was just beginning to grow between them.
    The first night they had spoken to each other five times on the telephone, spending an hour in one conversation that lasted late into the night, talking about anything just to hear each other’s voice. The second night Taylor had lain awake for hours waiting for Brett to call. It was after one in the morning before the telephone rang.
    “Hello.”
    “Hi.” Brett’s voice was full of exhaustion.
    “How are you?”
    “Tired and bored and I miss you.” Brett was also getting fed up with dealing with the women that hung around the ski team wanting to be involved with a world-class skier. Her only thoughts were for Taylor and the relationship they were just beginning. She was no longer interested in frivolous, casual encounters.
    She wanted a real relationship with one woman, and that woman was Taylor.
    “I miss you.” Taylor wanted nothing more than to have Brett home with her.
    Until this trip, they hadn’t slept apart in over two weeks.
    “One more night and I’m out of here. I want to be with you.” Brett had sounded almost desperate as she spoke.
    “Is everything okay, Brett?” Taylor began to worry. She had a hard time believing that Brett wanted to be with her exclusively. Her reputation broadcasted exactly the opposite. Brett was famous for her playgirl behavior, and Taylor wasn’t sure Brett wanted to give that up.
    “Not exactly. I just hate all this stuff. It brings out the worst in people.” That was an understatement. She had been inundated with women who wanted nothing more than to spend an hour or so with the famous skier. They tended to come out of the woodwork at these events. Brett had been known to take advantage of the situation until this trip. Now nothing could distract her from Taylor and their fledgling relationship. She would not screw this up.
    “What do you mean?”
    “There are always obnoxious groupies around and they’re totally annoying.” Brett hated the fact that women threw themselves at her, and for the first time in her life she wasn’t interested in playing around. She wanted only to be with Taylor for what she hoped was the rest of her life. “God, I wish you were here.” 
    “I wish I was too. Brett, I, I …” Taylor tried to utter the words but something kept her from finishing her sentence. She loved Brett, but saying the words aloud scared her to death. Taylor had never been in a relationship where she had actually told a woman she loved her. This would be the first.
    “Honey, when I get back can we go away for the weekend, just the two of us?” Brett needed to tell Taylor how she felt, that she wanted to be with her for the rest of her life.
    “I’d like that. But right now, you should get some sleep. Don’t you have some kind of photo shoot in the morning?”
    “Yes, at ten,” Brett sighed. She was fed up with all of the publicity.
    “Go to sleep, baby. I’ll see you soon.”
    “Goodnight.”
    It wasn’t until the following evening that Taylor’s world changed. It started with a local news story about Brett and the photo shoot. There was a video of the ski team having their pictures taken, and it was very obvious that the woman interviewing Brett was enamored of her. Her remarks and her looks were bla-tantly noticeable. That by itself wouldn’t have bothered Taylor if it hadn’t been for the quick shot of that same woman in an evening gown standing next to Brett at the benefit dinner, her arm tucked under Brett’s elbow. Taylor didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but her heart was aching in her chest. They had no formal commitment to each other, but she had thought they had an understanding. It would kill her if Brett slept with anyone else. She waited until after two-thirty in