I wondered if I looked like a grinning fool as I walked back to the condo from the North Quincy T station carrying a stack of books. I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into them. Maxine—no, I had to get used to calling her Mimi. Mimi had loaded me up before I’d left. I had books on sacred geometry, auras, alchemy, and raising one’s vibration. Devon and I were going to have to negotiate how much reading time was healthy. If unchecked, I knew I would spend my days and nights with my nose in a book.
Once I’d placed them neatly in my room, I changed into a pair of sweats and sat cross-legged on his balcony with my eyes closed. The sounds of the water, the traffic, the wind…they all washed over me. I focused on my breathing, feeling the air flowing in through my nose and down into my belly. Then
