The press had been hounding Betty ever since the incident with Daniel but she knew all the tricks of the trade and gave them nothing of interest so they'd moved on. Betty sat on the benches outside the Meade building with Justin and Leticia waiting for a taxi to take them back to Hilda and Bobby's house. Leticia was talking with vigour about how she was a chic geek which Justin clearly disagreed with but was too nice to say.
The town car eventually showed up after many heated phone conversations with the driver and Betty, Leticia and Justin jumped in. Leticia was astounded by the extravagance but Betty and Justin seemed pretty bemused. The journey ticked along happily until they arrived at la casa de Suarez.
Papi had done all the cooking and Hilda had been around Manhattan and found the most stylish decoration around or at least in her eyes though of course Justin was quick to disagree which lead to playful slap from his Mother.
Hilda switched on the radio and they all danced around the living room like five year olds only to be interrupted by Amanda who'd seen the door was open and had invited herself in, Marc followed shortly after and raised his eyebrows at Hilda's festival of leopard print though luckily she didn't see.
The party went along quite happily and at 11.00 Justin, Leticia and Amanda went clubbing leaving Marc and Betty chatting in the living room.
"Marc I've got something I've been meaning to ask you, is there anyone at Meade who'd want me to leave?"
"Well other than the legions of the tastefully dressed no?"
"It's just I think the whole computer thing and the person who trashed Hilda's house might all be connected."
"Other than Daniel nobody I can think of. Wait what about Stephanie Atram?"
"Stephanie, who?"
"Only the most famous women's writer in the world!"
"Why would she want me out of Meade?"
"Because her and Bradford had a deal that if anything should ever happen to Sofia MYW was hers, but she rubbed up Claire the wrong way so Claire gave the job to you."
"Nice to know I was first on the list"
"Well you only edited some magazine in London you're hardly Anna Wintour."
"Anna Wintour burnt House and Garden into the ground before she joined Vogue! I've got a better track record than she did anyway. So this Stephanie does she have contacts at Meade?"
"Plenty I expect half your staff are on Stephanie's side rather than yours!"
"Don't joke Marc!"
"Betty I wasn't."
"Jesus Marc what am I going to do?"
"Well the only thing you can do is fight dirty, but that's not really Betty Suarez' style is it?"
"No Marc it is not."
They finished their conversation and Marc offered Betty a lift back to her flat. They were chatting in the car about the new Miu Miu collection. Curiously the car was going faster and faster and Betty Marc couldn't stop it. He took his foot of the accelerator but the car kept on moving so fast it was no longer controllable.
The car hit a warehouse and the engine smashed to pieces.
Please tell me what you think of this story and this chapter I love reading your reviews! Oh and continue guessing who killed Sofia Reyes because all will be revealed in either the next chapter or the chapter after.
