Searching For Jenna novel Chapter 54

Cara looked in the direction of her grandparents' room. "That might still be going to happen."

Elliot shook his head. "I would be more than happy to do that for you, but I don't want it just to be sex. I never stopped loving you, Cara. I think about you all the time, but I want you to feel like you could be happy with me. Yes, I know that your lesbian friends will flip out. It's a sad part of the prejudice in our community. They might accuse you of selling out to play straight, but that's not the truth. You will be the girlfriend, and hopefully, eventually, the wife of a transgender man, not a regular run of the mill man. Even though I'm all man on the outside, in the bedroom, it will be a similar experience to what we had before as lesbian lovers. Ultimately, it's up to you. We don't have to tell anyone who we are under our outer images, or we can take the bull by the horn and live as an open couple. A lesbian loving a trans man."

The weight of the truth settled between them. Cara knew that she would have to decide what she wanted the rest of her life to look like. She looked up at Elliot's beautiful blue eyes and realized that she didn't care what her life looked like on the outside as long as she was with the person she loved. She fell in love with Jenna in seventh grade but didn't tell her until they were sophomores in high school. She started falling for Elliot last summer and was willing to consider herself bisexual to be with him. What did what other people thought or have to say have anything to do with the fact that this man sitting before her made her heart do a flip-flop every time she saw him. When he kissed her, she felt like melted butter in his hands.

She wasn't going to let the outside world rob them of their chance to be happy together ever again. Cara leaned forward and stopped a breath's width from Elliot's lips. "I choose to love you, Mr. Elliot Judson Cross, just as you are." She kissed him lightly and then said, "I really mean that. Will you stay exactly as you are now? No surgeries?"

"Yes," Elliot agreed and kissed Cara lightly and then with more intent. He looked over his shoulder at the bedroom doors. "Do you think they will hear us if we make love on the floor?"

"I'm willing to risk it," Cara said and pulled Elliot to the floor.

Elliot sat next to a window in the building across from the courthouse where Michael Matthews was being sentenced for dumping three bodies, human trafficking, interfering with police and FBI investigations, tampering with evidence, and two counts of attempted murder. There were probably other charges, but Elliot didn't care. Michael Matthews was going to get life in prison. He would most likely go to the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Elliot just wanted to watch them bring him out and put him in the police car. Today would be the last day of Michael Matthews' life outside prison walls.

The course that finding the body in that freezer put Elliot's life on had been an interesting journey. He'd gone from being an abused teenage female to a man who had an amazing life. When Elliot's mother found out that reporters were trying to hunt her down, she got a lawyer and changed her name and all her legal information so the reporters couldn't find her. She became Shawna Erica Howard. Terry helped her pick out her names, and they got married on Valentine's Day a few months after Terry retired from the police department.

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