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Terrible weather leads to wonderful times.

An ice storm grounds the flights of both Katy and Steven. Not wanting to spend the night alone, Steven asks Katy to have dinner with him at the hotel where they’re staying.

Katy can tell Steven wants a little more than dinner, but she has a thick secret between her legs. Steven must decide if he’s willing to take a chance at something new.

Between Departures is a steamy first-time trans romance about a man and a trans woman who hit it off during a forced layover.

BETWEEN DEPARTURES

Man’s First Time with a Trans Woman

Clover Cox

CHAPTER 1

Katy hadn’t planned to spend the night in Missouri, let alone with a stranger who asked if she believed in fate. She wasn’t the type to entertain cosmic ideas, especially not after a twelve-hour day and a cancelled flight, but something about the way Steven asked, like he wasn’t trying to impress her, made her pause.

Steven had a journalist’s gaze. Steady, interested, and slightly amused. Maybe that’s why she stayed. For once, someone wasn’t trying to fix the moment. He was just living in it with her. They were both stranded with nowhere else to go, so why not make a connection? Katy only hoped that Steven wouldn’t freak out when he discovered her secret.

“Where are you headed in the morning?” he asked as they sat in the shuttle heading towards the hotel that the airline covered for them.

“Seattle. You?”

“Back home to Austin. I had to come here for a convention a client wanted me to cover.”

“I was also here for work. Never thought I would have to come to Missouri in my life,” Katy said with a laugh. “It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, though.”

Steven chuckled. “I’ve been a few times. Never got stuck at the airport, though. I wish I were still in the city. At least I knew where to eat there.”

“We could always take the Metrolink into town.”

“In this weather? You’re crazy,” Steven said with a laugh as they approached the counter at the hotel. They had separate rooms, but Steven had attached himself to her and wouldn’t let her get away without agreeing to dinner. “It’s fate, remember?”

“I hardly count getting stuck in St. Louis as fate,” she said and stepped away to let Steven check in first. She took the moment to walk over to a sitting room with a television and chairs. She watched the highlights on the news for a few seconds before returning to the counter to check in herself. Steven stood by her side the entire time, watching her closely. She knew those hungry eyes.

She also knew the eyes of disappointment when men discovered that she was trans. People didn’t guess she was different from any other woman when they saw her. They didn’t question her when she stepped into the women’s restroom despite the fact she had a little extra than other ladies between her legs. Her transition was difficult, but it felt like a distant, fading memory nowadays.

The world knew her as Katy, saw her as Katy, and treated her as Katy. Yet when men found out the truth, a lot of them flat-out rejected her. Others were more willing to entertain her. Some became overly excited. She wondered where Steven would land on the scale.

“Do you really want to eat at the restaurant in the lobby?”

“We could walk to the hotel next door, but I really don’t want to go anywhere while it’s raining ice.”

Katy didn’t either, but she was also worried about the staff and whether they would judge her for getting dinner with a man who was clearly a stranger, but this was a hotel. Surely, they had seen a lot worse. “I guess we could have dinner.”

“You need to eat one way or another. Why not eat with me?” Steven asked casually, flashing her a smile. She wondered what his number was. He could probably get a lot of willing women with those pearly white teeth.

“You drive a hard bargain. I need to freshen up first, though.”

“Meet back here in thirty minutes?”

Katy took a deep breath and exhaled sharply. “Fine, I’ll be back here in thirty. See you then.”

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