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“Why’s he willing to lower the price on the building?”

“Got“But the market’s down and he knows it Plus, his ants to randchildren”

Their own parents had up and o, Laura ree it took to pack up and go To discover new places, see new things But she was rooted in California and couldn’t see herself living anywhere else

“So all we need is a giant down payment”

“Yes,” Georgia agreed wryly “That’s all”

“Okay, won’t be easy, but if we really work the next fewit I could take out a second on this place and—”

“No” Georgia spoke up fast and fir to risk your home for this”

“Our home,” she corrected

“Thanks for that, but I still say no We’ll find another way”

Thankfully, even in a bad housingfor upscale hoe it

“Okay then, we’ll find a way to make it work”

“Now see,” Georgia said, catching her sister’s eye, “why is it you can be positive about our prospects for getting enoughbut not about Ronan?”

“Can we not?” She stared down at her laptop, willing the darn thing to boot up already Why did it take so long? She could be typing, entering inforia’s questions

“I’m supposed to be the cynical one,” her sister pointed out “I am the one with the loser ex-husband The one who had to ot divorced because said loser took everything out of our bank accounts on his way out of toith Busty the Cheerleader”

Laura laughed shortly at the description It was dead-on Georgia’s ex-husband had been a football coach at a so, when their season ended, the beloved coach and the head cheerleader—who also happened to be the Page sisters’ distant cousin—ran off to Hawaii, taking every cent out of a joint account and ia’s self-confidence