Chapter 257

As they drank their coffee and chatted about the things going on in their individual lives, Lisa had a chance to reflect on how different her life had become since moving in next door to Mason. She now had friends - real, actual girlfriends who she could do coffee with and share her life with - something she’d never had. She had also reached that particular milestone that she had set that would tell her she was safe. Having a million dollars in the bank meant that she no longer had to scrimp and save and penny-pinch. It had been a goal of hers since she published her first book and now she had reached it… although she thought she would’ve felt… different. She was happy, of that there was no doubt, and relieved and a little bit more confident, but there was still a part of her that held back, almost like it was waiting for the other shoe to drop. The part of her that had kept her from ending up homeless and destitute told her that a million dollars meant nothing in today’s economy and i