Sleeping beauty by Michael Judith

Author:Michael, Judith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women lawyers
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books
Published: 1990-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

JUDITH MICHAEL

He was sure he would win, as he'd won before, but he had to have a huge margin. And he'd started to move events in Tamarack, but he didn't know if what he'd done was enough.

The rest seemed out of his control. In the past two months, for the first time since Ethan had kicked him out, Vince had felt, more than once, the excruciating agony of helplessness, the pricking of nerve ends forced to stay still, the tension of muscles not allowed to spring.

"Fuck it," he muttered in the silence of his study. He fingered a round glass paperweight, a gift from the Ladies Club of Pueblo. Its smoothness annoyed him; it felt slimy and untrustworthy. "Fuck it," he burst out, and hurled the paperweight across the room. It struck the paneled wall, gouging it, bounced twice on the carpet, and rolled to a stop beneath a table holding half a dozen pictures of Dora. Josh, Vince thought. That bitch was going out with him. Not only staying with Gail and Leo, but going out with Josh. What the fuck was she up to? He'd warned her ...

Vince looked at the scar in the walnut panel across the room and he knew he would have to take control and get people doing what he wanted, and he had to do it damned soon.

Anne walked slowly along the gallery of Josh's apartment, looking at his paintings. They surprised her with their variety and brilliance, from French impressionists to minimalists. "Definitely not all sunshine and shadow," she murmured.

Josh, bringing two glasses of wine, heard her and smiled. "Not all of anything, as a matter of fact. It's not what you'd call a focused collection. My grandparents bought the impressionists when they were in Europe; my parents collected Picasso and Braque and the Eskimo sculptures in the living-room; and I bought the rest. What you're looking at is a history of the Durants, especially my grandparents, as they wended their way around the world. They hadn't the faintest idea that they were buying great art; they bought

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