Nikki heard loud voices in the other room. Helena and the newest girlfriend seemed to be having an argument of some sort. Nikki yawned. ‘Maybe I should go and introduce myself to the newest addition – before I have to flee the premises.’ Nikki was to damn tired of arguments these days and she wasn’t about to be a spectator to one of Helena‘s – if she remembered the ones with Winnie correctly, they tended to be rather prolonged and nasty.

Nikki opened the door and her eyes immediately caught a heavily pregnant blond cutie shooting fire at a stiff looking Helena.

“She’s still my family, it’s still her child and nothing going to change that,” Blondie yelled.

“She’s doing everything to keep you where she wants you, Tina,” Helena‘s voice was sharps as a stiletto. “You can’t let her hold you back like that.”

Nikki coughed slightly to announce her presence. Helena hadn’t said a damn thing about this woman being pregnant. Now she came to think about it, Helena hadn’t told her – or Trish, a lot about this new woman in her life.

Last time Nikki spoke to Trish, Trisha had mentioned how some Porter-women made Helena obsess like a crazy stalker, so Nikki had been quite surprised when Helena spoke of a Tina instead and constantly marveled about what an incredible ***** she was.

And pregnant or not, Nikki could easily imagine that Blondie was exactly that – but she wasn’t going to say that to Helena. One of the things she and Helen agreed on was that they hated the sexualized way Helena spoke about the women in her life.

Helen and Helena had never gotten along, though, and they couldn’t even stand to be in the same room for more than an hour.

‘Helen.’ Of course. Her heart took every opportunity it got to let Helen break back to her conscience. No wall was high enough for that woman!

‘No, don’t go there. I won’t think of her now.’ Nikki shivered in irritation – longing. ‘That bloody woman has been on me bloody mind since I met her all those bloody years ago, why should my being in another city, stop her from occupying it whenever she gets a bloody chance!’ Even after a vicious argument like the one they had before she left San Francisco, she stilled missed Helen like crazy when she wasn’t there.