TWO months passed and everything went on as usual. The city moved through them the way it always did... without sentiment, without pause, without any particular acknowledgment that the lives happening inside it were doing so at varying speeds and in wildly different directions.
For Amelia, those two months were the kind that accumulated quietly... work, children, small routines, the slow settling of her life after weeks of chaos.
Satin and Sage closed its biggest quarter on record. The resort's expansion broke ground in the second month, which meant three days of back-to-back meetings that exhausted Ryan so thoroughly he fell asleep in her office chair on a Thursday afternoon and she didn't wake him. Ames Roses got a feature in a city lifestyle publication that brought in a wave of new
