“I’m not whole or happy without you.”
“Well good, because I’m not going anywhere. And I’m sorry if I’ve seemed upset the last year or so. I mean…getting rejection letters has been hard. But you just got me a publishing deal. So I don’t really have to worry about that anymore.”
“A publishing deal that you’re not going to accept. Because it’s not what you want.”
“It is what I want. It’s everything I wanted. Not exactly the way I wanted it, no.”
“I’m so sorry, Penny.”
“It’s fine. Besides, it’s too late now.” I shook my head. “I’ll never really know if I had what it took now. But it is what I wanted. And you helped me get it.”
“Of course you’ll know. You turn down the offer I got you and keep trying.”
“Yeah but…literary agents talk. She probably pitched it to more than one publishing ho
