Chapter Twenty-Four
Fortified by her conversation with Joey, Jessica woke on Sunday morning determined to talk to Larry. He’d already walked away from her, so she had nothing to lose but a little bit of pride. She was nervous about approaching him, but she kept reminding herself that the thing she’d done wrong was explainable, even correctable. If he didn’t want her to write the second book, she simply wouldn’t write it. She’d find something else that she could write or, even better, she’d simply terminate her contract and take the losses it brought. It wouldn’t kill her to get a job. She could much more easily imagine working full time than she could writing that kind of book about anyone but Larry at this point.
After all, she thought with a smile, if she’d been open to thinking about
