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    Chapter 12

    “That sounds great Bette. Count me in. Chris is going to be thrilled.”

    After lunch Bette and Marcus moved the conversation to art while they finished up the bottle of wine. He told her that he had several new pieces that he’d be interested in selling on consignment. Bette said she would talk to James and make arrangements for them to be shipped to the gallery. It felt good to spend time with Marcus. They parted with the promise to get in touch the following week to finalize plans.

    ***

    The next day Bette arrived at the Peabody Corporation headquarters building for her meeting with Helena Peabody. She rang the buzzer and waited to be let in.

    “Good morning Peabody Corporation how may I help you?” the female voice is heard from the intercom system

    “Bette Porter for Helena Peabody.”

    She’s buzzed in and shown to Helena’s office. Bette stands at the entrance for a few minutes watching Helena who appears to be engrossed in something on her computer screen. A few seconds go by without any acknowledgement so Bette clears her throat to get Helena’s attention. Bette senses a power play and instinctively knows that Helena Peabody is going to be on the offensive. She could counter-attack but feels the best strategy is to play the underdog until she knows exactly what Helena is up to. Finally Helena looks up and addresses her.

    “Bette Porter?”

    “Nice to meet you Helena. Thank you so much for seeing me.”

    They shake hands and Helena indicates with a head nod that Bette should take a seat which she does.

    “Remind me again. You’re with?” Helena is feigning ignorance and Bette plays along.

    “I’m the Executive Chairperson for the California Arts Center in Los Angeles. Our museum has a long standing relationship with the Peabody Arts Foundation.”

    “We’ve always supported the arts very generously. I’m glad you’ve benefited.”

    “We did. But I hope you’re not speaking in the past tense. Your mother has assured me that you will continue to support the arts.”

    “My mother is retired.”

    Bette knows very well that Helena’s reign is only temporary but she continues to play along; curious to know where Helena is headed.

    Comments

    1. Great job BAT, helena is such a bitch and I’m happy that you did not try to make her a nic e person, she needs to have her face kicked in and hopefully Bette will be up to the task. I could never stand her on the show, such an evil bitch. As much as I care àbout Tina she has really disappointed me in this story and I almost feel sorry for her, almost. Since Tina is with henry maybe helena will not be able to get her nasty hooks into her. Thanks for posting. Have a great week.

    2. Hey Bat, this chapter was really amazing, I like so much the change in Bette’s mood, though I know, the pain is still under her skin, I was wondering about the sexual orientation of Allyson, thinking on a possible affair with Bette, but for me, Bette definitely have to change her ways. I guess Helena will approach Tina, and will make (or try at least) her to come back from hetero-Ville, as we know Tina is attracted to women “even though you are the only woman I have ever been with I’m also attracted to women” as she said in the former chapter, and we know it is not about sex but the emotional connection as you said in chapter 9, I don’t know if Tina will find that with Henry (I doubt it, for me disgusting), and she still doesn’t get her answers; but Helena being the bitch that she is, may want to go after Tina, to show Bette, that she could achieve what the director of the CAC couldn’t. I really going to miss your daily updates, thank so much for this story, I’ll be waiting for the next one as everybody else; have a good trip.

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