Chapter 66

• IT had been a long time since I’d been to The Cocktail Bar. Shannon had always liked it more than I did. And as it turned out, he brought Jolene here when I wasn’t around so I felt it was best to meet her at the place she felt most comfortable to deliver my news. Not that finally agreeing to sell my real estate business and give her a share of the profits was bad news. She’d wanted me to sell when we were settling Shannon’s estate, but I wasn’t ready to do it then. But now I was about to blow my life up, and I needed the money from the sale to finance it.
• Blowing up my life…
• I had to stop thinking of it that way. Starting over in your fifties was completely normal. There were plenty of women who reinvented themselves and launched successful second careers at my age. Except I wasn’t selling my business to start something new. I was just chasing a man to Costa Rica. A man that I wasn’t even brave enough to call and share that plan with.