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I feel the air rush out of me. All my work, the time I invested, hoping to see things from the inside. But I’d never been on the inside. Meg made sure of that.
And yet, if it were truly over, she wouldn’t still be here, answering her phone, going to yoga. I step sideways in my mind, trying to look beyond the Canyon Drive house, and ask myself, What would success look like for Meg? Perhaps the answer isn’t a house.
“Is Ron looking to buy something, or will he wait, now that the election is so close?”
“We’re working on a few different options,” she says.
“I’d be happy to help,” I say. “Whatever you need. I’m dying to take my mind off things, and paperwork sounds like the perfect distraction.”
Meg is quiet for a moment, as if she’s thinking. “Tell you what,” she says. “Let’s go for a hike. I need to get out of the house, and it sounds like you do too. Temescal Canyon in an hour?”
I feel a zap of energy, as if someone’s plugged me in again. “Meet you in the parking lot?”
“See you soon,” she says, and hangs up.
I stare at the notes from my calls with Renata and Celia, focusing on the purchase of Celia’s lake house. It’s clear that whatever happened with the sale of Canyon Drive, Ron was fine with it. Which means that Canyon Drive wasn’t her end point, but rather the starting point to something bigger.
