Felicias Favourites – Danielle Steel (1)

he asked her. “I’ll try to get out of here by then.” He was excited to see her, and Veronica took the contract with her when she went to meet him. She put her Columbia application in a desk drawer and locked it before she left the apartment. She hadn’t heard from Anson since their unpleasant exchange the day before, and she didn’t expect to. It seemed like he was still planning to punish her for a few days, and if he showed up, it would be later, although he wasn’t always easy to predict.

Scott was waiting for her at a corner table, when she got to the Saint Regis five minutes late. Traffic had been heavy, and she’d taken a cab. She was wearing black slacks and a striking red coat. He saw her immediately when she walked in, and he stood up to greet her. He was struck again by how beautiful she was.

Her cheeks were pink from the cold, and her eyes were bright. Her dark hair was in a sleek bun, her red coat looked chic and expensive, and she had a large striking gold bangle on one arm that he remembered had been her mother’s. The sisters had divided the jewelry up among them, without a problem, shortly before Christmas.

Veronica ordered white wine and he had a gin and tonic, and after they chatted for a few minutes, she took the contract out of her Hermès bag. As he looked at it with her, their heads close together, he could smell her perfume. It had a spicy, musky scent that was mysterious and sexy, and he loved being near her.

She had an aura of sophistication about her, faintly reminiscent of her mother’s, but in a more youthful style. Scott hadn’t thought of Felicia as sexy, but he’d thought she was very beautiful, and Veronica was both. “Does that make sense to you now?” he asked her about one of the deal points in the contract. She said she wasn’t sure and he explained it to her again, and then she got it.

The contingencies, conditions, and percentages were complicated in audiovisual deals, as she was discovering. “This isn’t my usual field of expertise either, but it’s more fun than tax structures,” he said. They ordered another drink and Veronica was relaxed with him. “Do you miss practicing law?” he asked her. “I didn’t practice for very long. It was a conflict with the man I was involved with, and I quit in less than a year, and I haven’t practiced since.”

“That’s a big sacrifice to make for a man,” he commented. “We’re still together, and he still feels the same way about it.

To my so greatly loved children, Beatrix, Trevor, Todd, Nick, Samantha, Victoria, Vanessa, Maxx, and Zara, May you be forever blessed, together and stronger for the love you share and the love I have for each of you. You are my favorites, always were, and always will be, forever. With all my heart and soul, I love you, Mom / d.s. OceanofPDF.com T Chapter 1 he identical letters reached each of the five recipients on the same day, according to Felicia Morgan Weston’s precise instructions.

The day the letters were sent was the second of December, a month after her death. They were sent to her five daughters by her attorney, Scott Freeman, and said only that he held a letter written to them by their mother. She had written it six years before, at the same time she wrote her will, when she turned sixty. Scott wanted them to come to his office, so he could give them each their copy. He knew it contained some long-overdue explanations, which their mother was aware would shock them, or surprise them at best.

Felicia had been strong, busy, still beautiful, and in good health when she wrote the letter and her will, and nothing had changed when she died in a freak accident at sixty-six, a month before. She had run in the New York marathon for twenty years. She did it every year to prove to herself that she could, and she prepared for it all year. It cleared her head, and gave her a feeling of accomplishment. She was one of the victims of a deranged sniper who had opened fire on the runners with an assault rifle shortly after they crossed the starting line.

She was the first of the nine people he killed. He injured eight more before the police shot and killed him. Her daughters were devastated. They were all close to her, and their mother was the only other family they had. Their father had died in a commercial airline crash when they were between two and ten years old.

The three oldest girls, Charlotte, Quinne, and Olivia, still had a few vague memories of their father, but the two youngest, Veronica and Isabelle, had been too young to remember him. Felicia was thirty-four when she was widowed, her husband Bill Weston forty-four when he died. The plane crash was officially determined to be due to pilot error.

As a result, the insurance payments to the families the passengers had left behind were enormous. They paid Felicia enough to assure her and her five daughters a reasonably comfortable life for twenty years, until her youngest daughter finished college.

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