chapter 15

10 months later Weeks turn into months, and now the hotel is nearly unrecognizable. It was just four rogue women with three babies in tow doing what, I thought, was impossible when we started. At times, it seemed there was no end in sight and all of us wanted to give up. Fix one thing, find another issue; yet we managed it. Now, here we are, four days before the health and safety inspector comes out to check our progress again. The first time he came out, he gave us a list of issues and snorted in laughter when we told him it was only us fixing it up. He shook his head and said it was impossible and that the place should just be bulldozed. Nearly a year has passed since then. In that time, we've fixed all the hotel rooms into immaculate suites that match or even surpass the other hotels in the city. Macey and I went 'hotel shopping', as we called it, and sussed out the other nearby accommodations. At each of them, we booked a room for a night to test the services and check out the room