French Kissing: Season Five by Harper Bliss

Author:Harper Bliss [Bliss, Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789887912415
Publisher: Ladylit Publishing

Claire

Claire’s heart was hammering in her throat. The president might have been a guest at her wedding and, on a good day, she might consider them to be something akin to friends, but today was by no means a day like that. It was Claire’s day of reckoning. It was the day that she had a task she never thought she’d be faced with.

She had to ask the president for forgiveness.

“Please follow me,” Madame Moreau said.

Claire wondered when Dominique’s personal secretary would ever retire. Perhaps she was waiting until Dominique was no longer president. As they approached the double doors leading to the president’s office, all thoughts about Madame Moreau’s retirement fled Claire’s brain.

“Thanks for seeing me, Madam President,” Claire said as soon as she’d been shown into Dominique’s office. To her relief, Solange wasn’t present. But Claire knew she could show up at any moment.

“Claire.” Dominique fixed her with a frosty glare.

Claire thought herself very foolish for even considering that she and Dominique were friends—even something close to friends. There was not a smidgen of friendly atmosphere in this office.

“Claire, Claire, Claire,” Dominique repeated. “What have you done to yourself?” She gestured for Claire to sit.

“I can only apologise.” Claire sat. She had practised the words last night in bed with Margot—it was the most action she and Margot had gotten up to in bed in months.

“While that is definitely true.” Dominique leaned back in her chair. “It’s not me who you’ve hurt the most. It’s not as if you went to Le Matin with the news I might not run. You took a silly gamble and told Aurore.” A quick up and down tilt of the head. “And who could ever have guessed that Solange is so lovable that a dyed-in-the-wool socialist like Aurore would confide in her instead of my political opponent?”

“I just—” Claire started.

Dominique cut her off by holding up a finger. “I don’t have the luxury of time to question you about your motives. This is something that has happened and that I’ve moved on from, unscathed. But you hurt Steph. And when you hurt Steph, you hurt me as well. I can only imagine how Juliette feels right now.”

Rub it in, why don’t you, Claire thought. Maybe that was why Dominique had agreed to see her.

“You’re quite ruthless, Claire.” She narrowed her eyes. “You’re built for politics and PR. So it’s a real shame that you and I won’t be working together ever again.”

“About that.” Claire’d had enough of being reprimanded. “I just want you to know that Juliette had nothing to do with this. Please give her and the agency another chance. I don’t work there anymore. If you do decide to run, please go with Barbier &…” It was a hard habit to break to not just say their two last names in one breath. She had done so for decades. “I know that what I did was extremely disloyal, but it was my doing. Not Juliette’s. Jules is…” This was probably the hardest thing to say.

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