“OK?” he said after a few seconds.
“Yeah. I’m just lucky to have friends like them in my life.”
“How did all of you meet? You guys and Mia?”
“Oh, it was about six years ago, I guess. We were all invited to the launch party for Denver Insider.”
“The entertainment magazine?”
“Yeah. Mia and I freelanced for them, and Maggie and Reena had both been featured in the first issue.”
“Maggie paints, right? Reena sculpts?”
“Other way around,” Katie said.
“Oh, yeah.”
“Anyway, it was one of those huge bullshit networking parties, where everyone exchanges cards and phone numbers, and promises to call, and nobody ever does. But Mia was new in Denver – she’d just moved from Maine the month before – and she was looking for friends. So she called me. Invited me for coffee.” Katie shrugged. “And she
