The Secret Trilogy by Francine Saint Marie

Author:Francine Saint Marie [Marie, Francine Saint]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: ! Yes
ISBN: 9781438240572
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2009-03-26T05:00:00+00:00

“What’s with you? Did something go down in Paris or what?”

“No, Mama. Nothing went down in Paris.”

“You still sick about that man?”

“What ma–oh, that one. I don’t know. I guess so.” Her mother thought it was about a man. Fine. It’s about a man then.

“What about Sebastion? Oh, we liked Mr. Jones, Venus. Call him, won’t you? No point in making yourself sick over this other guy. Who is he anyway? He can’t be all that.”

“It’s not him so much, right now.” She hoped to switch the subject but realized too late that it would just change over to work and this was essentially the same issue.

“Work then, baby?”

“Yes, Mama, work.”

Scandal was imminent and extreme measures had had to be taken to preempt Silas Goodman from opening the can of worms that had become Soloman-Schmitt these days. In fact, her career might have been on the line hadn’t Paula proved to be so adept at scandal control.

Now losing her job. She wasn’t sure how she truly felt about that aspect of the situation. “It’s just work, Mama.” But she sure didn’t want her name dragged through the mud by the tabloids. She could guess how that would feel, how her family would react to it all.

“That why you come back so early?”

Yeah, actually, but she really didn’t want to go into it. “We got it all resolved, Mama. It’s fixed now.”

Paula had hatched a bold counterattack and had just unveiled it in her office yesterday, the first day in the full week that Venus had been back that Lydia could seemingly tolerate being in her presence. The joint president sat in the chair right next to hers, a pillar of salt for the entire hour it took Paula to present the defense strategy. Venus had wanted to interrupt the session, to scream I’m sorry, but she was ambivalent about the matter by now and, in truth, not convinced anymore that she had done something she was supposed to feel sorry for.

“Everybody’s got secrets,” Paula had asserted, dramatically emptying the contents of a big, fat folder onto her desk. “And so does Goodman, that son-of-a-bitch!”

And so he had, much to the relief of the three women in a room, conspiring to pull him off his high horse. Photos, tapes, restaurant tabs, jewelry receipts, income tax evasion. These are the kind of things that indiscreet people with soapboxes and agendas never think about when they’re scrutinizing someone else for their indiscretions, when they’re just too distracted with very private plans for a very public hanging.

The ladies had Goodman real good, thanks to busy Paula Treadwell. The soon to be ex-member of the board of directors of Soloman-Schmitt would never know what hit him.

Lydia felt bad already. “But what will he do?”

Paula scoffed. “He’ll resign ‘to spend more time with his family.’ Get it?”

Oh, yeah. Now she did.

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