Blind Curves by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781602824522
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2007-03-12T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Velvet settled into the cozy leather couch set in the back corner of Noe Valley’s Coffee Klatch. The small, lesbian-owned coffee and tea café featured cushy purple brushed-velvet sofas, mocha-colored walls, dim recessed lighting, funky lesbian artwork, and tons of intriguing magazines. To calm herself down, Velvet flipped through the San Francisco Bay Times while sipping her skinny, no whip, double mocha. Stan hadn’t kept his “promise” until it was too late to get her film back from processing by five. Now she had to wait until tomorrow morning. Velvet was still considering the appropriate response. Maybe she should just resign.

Marion slid onto the seat next to her. “What’s up?” she whispered.

Velvet put down the paper. “You heard about Rosemary?”

Marion nodded.

“I’ve been charged with her murder.”

“What?” Marion looked horrified. “You didn’t, did you?”

“God, no. But I am trying to figure out who did.”

“And you’re asking me?”

Velvet smiled, “Not so much, no. But I did want to finish our interrupted conversation. From the other night at the Liberty. What’s Rosemary suing you for?”

“You won’t believe it. For hiring Kathleen Hillman, among other things.” Marion shrugged and shook her head.

“But didn’t Rosemary throw her out?” Velvet was incredulous. “Like a year and a half ago?”

Kathleen Hillman was the editor credited with turning any queer mag she touched into newsstand gold. Celebrities loved to talk to her, readers loved to gossip about her, and in San Francisco everyone was as enamored with her as Rosemary Finney once was. But when staff tensions grew at Womyn, Kathleen got caught in the crossfire, which meant a nasty breakup with Rosemary and getting tossed out by the publisher’s legal goons unexpectedly one morning. After a year of solitude on some ashram or something, she had recently reappeared in San Francisco and Bend was quick to snatch her up.

“Yeah, she threw her out. It was ugly, too.” Marion took a sip of her latte. “Personally, I can’t see how Womyn has a case, but…”

“But it’s expensive to fight,” Velvet finished Marion’s sentence. She knew from personal experience how difficult it was to go up against Rosemary and her lawyers.

“I tried talking to Karen a few weeks ago, to see if we could…I don’t know, work this out somehow.”

“Karen? Really?” Velvet was surprised Rosemary’s partner would have agreed to speak with Marion. “What did she say?”

“She said no.”

“Of course she did,” Velvet said sarcastically. That sounded like Karen.

“Actually, I got the feeling that Karen wished Rosemary would drop it.” Marion stared at Velvet. “What?”

“I didn’t say anything,” Velvet replied, thinking it was far more likely that Karen had put Rosemary up to the lawsuit than the other way around.

“You had a look. You don’t think she could disagree with Rosemary?”

“I’d just be surprised if they didn’t show a united front.”

“Maybe now Karen will drop the lawsuit,” Marion said hopefully.

Velvet wasn’t convinced. “I hope so. For you. Maybe the Yuri will stop selling your secrets.” She didn’t really believe that would happen either. With Rosemary gone, Womyn would probably value the insider information even more.

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