Good Friends
Chapter 1 It was a small party of ten couples and a few unattached men and women and it was, to Helga Cooper’s mind, rather a stuffy affair. Everyone seemed to be standing in little clusters, talking inanely of topics typical to cocktail parties: local and national politics, current fads and fashions, the Elections, The hostess, a tall, statuesque blonde whose name was Luci Danton, circulated amongst the guests with a tray of various preferential drinks and her long-side burned husband, Tim, sat next to a slim redhead on one of the living room’s two couches, putting his hand on her knee almost possessively when he thought his wife wasn’t looking. Helga stifled an involuntary yawn, knowing that Tom and her should never have accepted the Danton’s invitation. Tom had quit his job three weeks …