Previously…

Franklin: What does that
mean, Bette?

Tina knew exactly what
Bette was getting at. She walked around the table to close the distance between
she and Bette. She had been waiting all day to see and hold Bette again. Tina
wrapped her arms around Bette’s waist.

Tina: It means SHE QUITS.

Tina leaned in and caught
Bette’s lips with her own. Bette let her hands migrate up to Tina’s cheeks as
she deepened the kiss. Some of the board members gasped at the display while
others were moved by the interaction between the two. James and Kit just smiled
at each other. Kit rose from the chair, walked up next to Franklin and wrapped
her arm around his shoulders to which Franklin pulled back slightly. He had a
dumbfounded look on his face and Kit opted to capitalize on her newfound lot in
life – philanthropist.

Kit: Well Frankie – It
seems that I’m the CAC’s new best friend.

Bette was lost in Tina’s
gaze. Her heart rate quickened as Tina increased her proximity to Bette. Before
Bette even realized, Tina was standing before her and had wrapped her arms
around Bette’s waist. It hadn’t dawned on her what Tina had said before she
pulled Bette into her embrace and subsequent kiss. It was all Bette could do to
not let the moment progress further right there in the boardroom. She had hoped
and wished for the day that Tina would return to her and now here it was with a
room full of pompous asses that she usually had to maintain a working
relationship with, her sister and her assistant. It wasn’t the romantic reunion
that she had envisioned for she and Tina. When Bette broke the embrace, she
noticed that Kit had made her way around the table to Franklin’s side and he
seemed to be in agony over the proximity of Kit’s presence and whatever comment
she had expressed. Bette had always thought that Franklin was often times just
tolerating her own presence at the CAC and now it seemed that he would have
another Porter woman with which to contend. Bette felt mildly sorry for
Franklin, but the elation outweighed the remorse so much more. A smile crept
across her expression as she contemplated the future interactions between Kit
and Franklin were he and the CAC to accept the grant from the Porter-O’Brien
Foundation. Tina, noticing the change in Bette’s expression, posed her own
offer to Bette.