Donna’s apartment The hot, pinpoint shower was so relaxing that Blair had felt tempted to stay under it forever. But she’d resisted and now welcomed the delicious coolness of the linen sheets on the bed in Donna’s guest room. Though she’d known Donna for decades, she’d never stayed overnight in her friend’s apartment. She closed her eyes and thought about her argument with Donna. She had forced Donna to abandon the story on the Braganza. For the first time, she had gotten Donna to bend to her will. Now she had to reverse her plea and persuade Donna to run the story after all. It galled her, though she knew it had to be done. At first she had been frantic to stop any publicity that would spread the word about the sale. She knew that Wade would spend all the money to maintain his extravagant lifestyle with Bella. Blair and Harold would get nothing. Now Wade was dead, and as his executor, Harold would control the sale. He would get the money. She hoped that this meant that for the first time in their married life, they could buy a home of their own.
