How My Book Club Got Arrested by Leslie O'Kane

Author:Leslie O'Kane [O'Kane, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, women's fiction, genre fiction, light mystery, clean mystery
ISBN: 9781943772995
Amazon: B071JL1YTX
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2017-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Choosing Sides in Dixie

Once again, Eugena insisted on being dropped off at her hotel. She explained that, as an introvert, she’d already felt drained this morning by her agent and lawyer’s unexpected arrival, and was then all-but incapacitated by the high-pressure timeshare salesmen. She needed the comfort of solitude to breathe and clear her head.

Back at the condo, we reassured Abby that Eugena was not suffering over her timeshare experience. I then managed to get Kate to tell us about her experiences as she won seven out of eight pots at the casino. (She mentioned “streets” and “rivers” in her description, which launched Abby into a brief tangent about the injustice in the game of “bridge” not having “tunnels.”) We were all happy for Alicia and Kurt reuniting and agreed unanimously that Kurt’s proposal Wednesday night at the live show would come as a surprise to Alicia.

Kate hadn’t been able to listen to Abby’s portion of her and my phone conversation, so Jane gave Kate a brief recap of their meeting with Eugena and her former-ish agent and lawyer. “They’re just greedy shysters,” Abby said. Seated on the Navajo-patterned rug, she gave Red a big hug, who looked up and panted in her face. “Aren’t they, my little angel,” she baby-talked to him.

“Actually,” Jane said, “I spoke with Eugena privately after today’s confrontation in the lobby. I can’t discuss our conversation, of course, but it’s fair to say that Eugena told me some things that made her agent sound more rational.”

“Personally,” Abby said, crossing her arms, “I think Natalie’s been changing her story, which is confusing Eugena.”

I was focused on Jane’s statement. “Eugena definitely fired Natalie’s boyfriend, right?” I asked her.

“Right. I wrote up a letter for dissolution of representation for him, which she signed and faxed to his office. He sent me a text that read: ‘Good luck. You two deserve each other.’”

“He sounds like a misogynist, if you ask me,” Abby grumbled.

“But what does Eugena mean when she told Natalie that she’s on probation?” I asked, once again looking at Jane, whom I trusted to give an unbiased assessment.

“I’m not entirely clear on that, because Eugena isn’t clear. If I were to engage in conjecture, I would say that Eugena hasn’t fired Natalie because she realizes that Natalie could well be telling the truth.”

“About what?” Abby asked in obvious surprise.

Jane hesitated. “A client can sometimes tell their attorneys about their own state of mind…which makes them uncertain about the instructions that they gave to an employee, for example. Eugena could have admitted, for example, that she could have misspoken about our motives for driving her to Branson.”

“Well, that’s more than a little disturbing,” I said.

Abby shook her head. “It’s just because Eugena doesn’t want to hurt Natalie’s feelings. Regardless of how badly Natalie has been trampling all over her.”

“Again, I don’t feel comfortable discussing this, beyond my personal opinion that Natalie might not be completely in the wrong. Meanwhile, Susan called me back about Rachel Jones, the now-missing assistant editor in Eugena’s publishing house.

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