Chapter Two
Eloise
I thought it best to try to forget Bette and move on with my life by focusing my mind on starting some new kind of business with the settlement money. With the help of a realtor I impulsively bought a cheap old ugly brick building off the highway about 30 minutes out of town and renovated it. It was a rundown piece of s**t and suited me perfectly. I got a good price and paid for it in cash, so I didn’t have to deal with a mortgage. When I bought the building I had no idea what I wanted do with it, other than open up some kind of store, a hardware store or something like that. It was pretty foolhardy of me to invest so much cash in the property without even a rudimentary business plan, but I wasn’t thinking clearly at the time and I was still fighting off feelings of d
