Art Theft and Murder

But how could they be friends if Rachel was interested in Martin? "Homosexuality is a cross," Whitney thought, and she smiled back at Rachel as if to say, "Martin belongs to me." Her little crush on Rachel diminished the more that Martin ignored her, and, as this happened, she began to question whatever homosexuality she had come to accept. Then she stopped questioning herself because her questions only aroused her. She didn't want a threesome, and, what's more, Rachel and Martin didn't either. Martin could be so predictable at times--he was like any other heterosexual man that believed, consciously or unconsciously, that it was his responsibility to sleep with as many attractive women as possible. As far as the case goes, what was there to figure out? Jerry Brucheim, the owner of the Pissaro, Michael Farley, and Michael Vainly had all been working together. Vainly asked, or possibly insisted, that his wife's lover be killed, and Vainly had made this happen. "I don't know if Brucheim agreed to the murder, but I'll figure that once the dominoes begin to fall." Then she told herself that homosexuality was a state of mind--a door she could open or close without necessarily losing anything.