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Rose was frowning. “It’s Poppy’s idea.”
“You liked it too,” Poppy said. “Why are you acting this way?”
“Because Lily isn’t here,” Rose said. “I don’t like doing these things without her.”
“What is it?” Sage asked. “If you must know I still pass things by her if I need to. If I’m doing anything new. She left instructions for me to do that. I don’t want to tell her no even though she is out of work.”
When you owned a company you were never completely off. She knew that from her parents.
Poppy started to pout. “Ha ha,” Rose said. “Poppy thought she was going to pull one over on Lily.”
“Sorry,” she said. “But what is it?”
She looked at Poppy who wasn’t talking, then turned to Rose.
“Poppy had this idea to reach out to any celebrities we could and send them samples in the hopes that they wear a piece of jewelry or an accessory. Maybe they’d be in a shot with it on and get our name out there. She thought you might know of some agent to send things to.”
“I do,” she said. “It’s something I’ve thought of. But I have another idea. I’ve sat on it because I’m not sure how anyone will feel and it could get touchy.”
“What?” Rose asked. “We don’t want you to get into trouble.”
“It’s not that. I thought, maybe Kate. I know that the fashion shows she is going to aren’t the same as what we create, but you know, if maybe a piece of jewelry or a bag wasmadefor a show. If she knew a designer who wanted something special donated. Something that fits our style and image.”
The two sisters looked at each other. Rose would be the tough one here, she knew that.
“I’m all for it,” Poppy said. “But I understand it might be difficult for you to ask. Kate is a family friend.”
“And I don’t want her to feel as if this is a favor. I’d approach it like I would anyone else and would present it that I was going to her first. If she says no, no hard feelings. But you’d have to agree. All three of you. I figured I’d bring it up to Lily when she returned.”
“I don’t know,” Rose said.
It’d been discovered that Kate’s grandfather was the one who’d hit and killed the girls’ mother when they were teens. The mystery was unsolved until Trace came to town and started to look into it. Something Kate had asked him to do when she found letters her grandmother had written.
Things her grandmother had said and not realized.
Lily and Poppy were more forgiving and didn’t blame Kate. Rose had a harder time moving past it.
Rose had said she didn’t blame Kate, but it was hard for her to not see Kate and think of what Kate’s family did to theirs.
Sage could understand that completely and that was why she wasn’t sure about doing any of this.
“I know it’s hard,” she said. “If you don’t want to do it, Rose. I understand. I won’t even bring it up to Lily. I don’t want to put any of you in a position to argue.”
“It’s good for business if she does it,” Poppy said.
“I don’t want Kate to do it because she feels she owes us,” Rose said, crossing her arms.
“She wouldn’t,” Sage said. “Kate isn’t that way. I’m not trying to be mean, but she takes her job very seriously. She was just as emotionally damaged as you when the truth came out. I know you lost your mother and it had nothing to do with her, but she couldn’t believe the people who all but raised her and supported her when her own parents didn’t could do something like that.”
“It’s not easy for anyone,” Rose said.
“No,” she said. “As I said, I don’t want to create problems. It was a thought I had. I’m thinking of the business as much as you both are. If nothing came out of what Trace was doing, I’d still think to do this with Kate. That is what I told myself.”
“I agree,” Poppy said. “We all suffered. We’ve all moved on. We’ve had more years than Kate to get to this point.”
Kate had isolated herself for months. She’d been nervous about being the best woman in Trace and Violet’s wedding and facing the Bloom sisters again but pulled up her big girl panties and did it.
Lily and Poppy had acted as if it was all behind them. Rose still held a grudge.
