Fortune Is A Woman by Francine Saint Marie

Author:Francine Saint Marie [Marie, Francine Saint]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

They had deliberately kept her in the dark about the entire Goodman debacle. Even Paula had managed to keep her mouth shut about it.

But Helaine was not so out of the loop that she couldn’t glean from everyone’s dour expressions that something had happened at Soloman-Schmitt to trouble them. Even Venus who usually remained neutral regarding corporate crimes and misdemeanors seemed somewhat depressed these days. So, too, the news coverage of late was teeming with innuendo and rumors concerning the internal affairs of the firm and its hierarchy, and although Venus’ name was not one of those being bandied about, Lydia’s was, as was JP Treadwell’s, understandably.

Helaine gathered from all the bald speculation that the reporters knew no more about what was really going on than she or anyone else did, and that, if there was anything to it, the hullabaloo most likely had to do with the surprise resignation of one Silas Goodman from the board of directors, since his name was at the center of every proposed plot and because his resignation was the one detail that would eventually emerge as fact, the only fact, in fact, that Lydia and Venus were both independently willing to confirm was true. Beyond that, the subject was off limits to Helaine and their lips were sealed, and if Helaine hadn’t been so consumed with her own work and the daunting task of preparing for an international tour, she might have taken the time to confront the ladies about all the secrecy, since secrets were rarely good things to keep from or between lovers, mates and friends.

Keeping secrets is silly anyway. For famous women.

Helaine was finally getting used to Lydia’s new fame and it sometimes appeared that Lydia would, too. She wasn’t quite as careless in public as she had been only months earlier, though she still had no respect for reporters and dodged them whenever possible and she still couldn’t bear an ounce of bad press, something which everyone involved was aware of.

Helaine routinely pointed out that whenever Lydia came off as relaxed and open with the press corps she received flattering coverage from them.

“So?”

“So maybe we should examine your issue with reporters. Get some closure here.”

“They’re not reporters, Helaine. At best, they’re stenographers.”

“I see.”

It was a fame that contrasted sharply from Helaine’s, having more the elements of pop stardom and the kind of notoriety that rock stars earn as opposed to the status the president of a Fortune 500 company deserved. Perhaps that was Lydia’s major objection to it all, that it was attention she had not solicited, for qualities she had never invested much in and which she herself would never have thought to promote over and above her real talents. Maybe she felt diminished by the attention, by the constant buzz about beauty, charisma and charm. Maybe she resented Paula for shoving it to the forefront while at the same time pumping up her pretty princes with her quasi-feminist corporate rhetoric. Maybe at last she saw through shrewd

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