Chapter Twenty-Seven
Stone
Three days had passed since Jessa broke up with me and blocked my number. I’d accomplished more in those three days than I knew I could. I’d signed the lease at the hospital and hired my sister-in-law Sloan, to hire and oversee a crew to put together the layout she’d come up with for the bistro. And now, I was on my way, in our company plane, to Durham, North Carolina.
Thanks to the internet, I’d found the address of the Moxon family estate. I knew there was no way of knowing how she’d take my arrival, but I was ready to take a gamble on Jessa being happy to see me. She’d told me that she loved me — that had to mean she still had deep feelings for me. They couldn’t possibly have gone away that fast.
As soon as the plane landed, I rented a car and put the addr
