New Beginnings Conclude

By Limey Lady

Up until only weeks ago Mikki thought she was a straight girl with a low sex drive. Big mistake! A chance encounter at work turns her life upside down. Scales fall from her eyes. Suddenly she’s in love . . . with a girl!

Now, almost impossibly, the rocky relationship with Davina takes a turn for the worse. And this time their differences seem terminal. Her hated rival gloats in triumph while Mikki consoles herself with drink and casual flings. Can love find a way to reunite them, or is she fated to be another of life’s losers?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Limey Lady
• Release date: Sep 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370302345

Limey Lady

Here's a confession for you: I'm not sure if "Limey Lady" is a pseudonym or my alter ego. Back in 2016, when she came into being, she was definitely a nom de plume. Now, however, I am not so sure.As background, I have always written stories but, up to 2009, writing took a backseat, way behind the demands of my family and career. Then a life-changing medical condition . . . well, it changed everything for and about me. Suddenly I had/have time to spare. Suddenly I was/am churning out tale after tale.I was born in York but brought up in West Yorkshire, in part of the Aire Valley often described as "Bronte Country". I must say, though, that although most of my stories are set locally, they have little in common with the fine works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. So far my output can be divided into two: long stories featuring ne'er-do-wells, guns and some violence . . . and shorter stories featuring "liberated" women who rarely do what they're supposed to do.Limey Lady was created to be the author of the short stuff. But the longer novels all include feisty, uncooperative females - much like her characters - so I'm going to put her name to both as I publish on Smashwords.Watch this space . . .

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New Beginnings Conclude

By LimeyLady

Copyright Mark C Woolridge (writing as LimeyLady), 2016

Distributed by Smashwords

All characters and events in this publication,

other than those clearly in the public domain,

are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons,

living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter Twenty-Six - Peace Proposals

Chapter Twenty-Seven - Negotiations Break Down

Chapter Twenty-Eight - Katrina Declares War

Chapter Twenty-Nine - Mikki Fights Dirty

Chapter Thirty - Dave Calls a Truce

Chapter Thirty-One - Renewed Negotiations Go Well

Chapter Thirty-Two - Happy Endings

Mikki’s Afterword

Author’s Note

Other Books by LimeyLady

Introduction

Hi, it’s me, Mikki, here to tell one final tale. Last time I left you on the heels of a confrontation with Katrina. Remember? I was speaking about a week after the event, when I was suddenly filled with hope. When, as you might recall, I rather rashly declared I have a plan.

What did Rabbie Burns say about the best-laid schemes of mice and men? Well, he was right about the best-laid schemes of mice and women, too. He was in my case, anyway.

But enough of the foreplay: I’ll apologize in advance for my inevitable bad language and just get on with it.

Chapter Twenty-Six

The big confrontation had taken place in The Busfeild Arms, in the ladies’. And it had been a feisty one. In case anyone is unaware, Katrina is my hated rival. The subject in question, our mutual love interest Davina (more widely known as Dave), was not present.

Thank God!

Up until that two minute exchange I had, I must admit, been a bit in awe of Katrina. She looks a lot like Kim Kardashian, but is younger and even more attractive. Her voice is husky and so, so seductive. And, as an added extra, guaranteed to impress gullible techies like Dave, she’s an absolute whizz with computers. When she’s not off on her travels her IT skills are much in demand.

How can I compete against somebody so perfectly perfect? I’d wondered.

But that Sunday Katrina had shown cracks. She’d sneered at me, suggesting I didn’t have the equipment to compete with goddesses like her. Her previous veneer of politeness gone, she had accused me of jumping into her place in Dave’s bed as soon as she’d turned her back. And, most tellingly, she’d let me know she had no intention of going anywhere. Not until she was good and ready.

Believe it or not, I took her blistering tirade as positive. Before she started slagging me off I’d as good as given up on Dave, thinking I’d blown the good thing we’d had going. And I’d been thinking that the opposition was simply too much for me to cope with. Now, completely out of the blue, I had hope. No, now I had reason to suspect I’d won! Against all the odds!! Little old me!!!

Not that I was counting too many chickens. Katrina was still living with my girlfriend. She was still, if what she’d just told me was true, fucking said girlfriend ten hours a day. To put it mildly, there were hurdles to clear yet.

And Katrina was good at leeching on Dave. She’d done so before, twice at least, sponging off her, living rent-free, saving every last penny of her exorbitant salary for yet another year of travelling.

What a calculating bitch!

Remembering I had company, I made my way back to the middle bar.

‘Well hello,’ Joyce said in greeting. ‘I was