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Date Posted: 20:23:05 12/17/07 Mon
Author: Hannah
Author Host/IP: port147.dialup.bfree.on.ca / 66.207.116.147
Subject: Northern Woods, Chapter 130
In reply to: Hannah 's message, "Northern Woods" on 17:50:56 09/23/07 Sun

Chapter 130

“I’m telling you Claire … he was serious!” Veronique snapped into the phone. “He said he’d throw me out of the party!”

“Well I don’t believe it for an instant!” Claire Boulanger scoffed. “He wouldn’t dare! Your father is much too important to him and his business. However, if you’re out of the running, then it will just make it that much easier for me to entice him to drop ‘the wife’.”

“You didn’t see the look in his eyes, Claire.” Veronique shuddered. “He’s changed, I tell you! He was always suave and emotionless during his ‘seductions’, but that man is gone. He’s in love with her… he even said as much.”

“In love with some nobody! And an Anglais at that? Oh please, Veronique” Claire snickered, “don’t make me laugh.”

“I’ve heard she’s beautiful… and young.” Veronique said slyly.

“What could he possibly see in a mere child?” Claire argued. “He’s always like sophisticated women before. Remember how he used to look at the waitresses at the club who drooled over him?”

“Yes…” Veronique recalled, “he’d look at them as if they were beneath contempt. He had an eye for the finer things then.”

“So?” Claire continued, “What are you concerned about? Both of us are mature, civilized, desirable women. Our backgrounds are impeccable and we come from the finest families in Quebec. How could he possibly love an uncivilized, lower class girl from Ontario? What would they have in common? It’s laughable!”

“I can’t put my finger on it Claire, but he’s changed.” Veronique insisted. “I can’t wait to meet this little nobody of a wife… I’ll bet she’s responsible!”

“Responsible?” Claire snorted. “I’ll bet she’s pregnant and she’s convinced him that it’s his. He might be jaded, but Michel has always adored children and if he thought she was giving him another one… that’s probably why he married her. We’ll just have to convince him that she’s a liar. Then he’ll dump her and he’ll be available again.”

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Claire put down the phone with an evil grin of triumph. After she’d gotten rid of Veronique and her whining complaints, she phoned her old friend Jurgen.

‘I was right… the little Anglais is pregnant!’ Claire crowed inwardly while primping in front of her mirror and smiling at her reflection. Claire Boulanger had a flawless complexion, ice blue eyes and wavy copper curls that cascaded to her ribcage. For the next ten minutes, she contemplated her telephone conversations while brushing her tresses lovingly and taking in her own magnificence.

Finally she gently set her brush down on her glass vanity and sighed. Jurgen had been a font of information. The new Madame Samuelle was apparently tall, blue eyed and had flaxen hair. Jurgen hadn’t been able to use enough superlatives to describe the woman who’d usurped the position she lusted after. Claire rolled her eyes in disgust as she remembered his lecherous description. ‘That stupid German’s smitten with the little Anglais too, but I can’t use him again. It would be too obvious! I’ll just have to think of another way!’

Few in their set knew it, but it was she who had been instrumental in Jurgen meeting Elena and freeing Michel from her grasp. Now she would have to find another way in order to rid herself of this pathetic Anglais.

She’d known for sometime that Michel and Elena were not happy. It had been blatantly apparent to everyone in their set, but no one had had the courage to set things in motion.

After she’d pushed Jurgen in Elena’s direction, things had happened quicker than she’d anticipated. Too quick. Jurgen had no subtlety and she had not had time to get into Michel’s inner circle before the marriage had crumbled. However, once she’d gained admittance, it had been amusing to dally with the handsome auburn haired billionaire. She knew she had competition, but she never seriously worried about the other women in her set. No man resisted her… and Michel Samuelle would not be the exception. Sooner or later, she consoled herself, he would be hers. Then without warning he’d disappeared. Others had believed the rumours of his death, but not her. There had been too little publicity to merit any truth there.

Now he had returned, with a new wife in tow. Although she was annoyed, Claire was unconcerned with this little obstacle. She’d been instrumental in trashing his first marriage, and she’d be damned if she was going to let a little fact like a second wife deter her. It was also incomprehensible to her that a staunch Francophile like Michel would even bother with, much less marry an English girl.

‘What ‘had’ he been thinking?’ Claire reasoned. “Men!” she muttered to herself. “Idiots! They think with one head for business and another for life!”

No matter. She would save him from this terrible mistake, the same as she’d saved him from Elena’s grasp. He would thank her in the end and she would be his final choice of a mate.

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