However, without her friend there, she thought she might chicken out and not go to see James. She also worried that he wouldn’t show up. Darren asked her, almost begged her, to let him go with her. But she said that it was something she needed to do on her own, and that Kat would be with her. Meeting James face to face would be a part of her healing. But what if he didn’t come? He would come because she had tricked him. She’d spent quite a bit of time over the last week researching James. Alyssa had learned that James was the owner of several jazz clubs in New Orleans and in other parts of the country. Since Katrina, he’d lost a great deal of money and was trying to sell off some of his clubs or find investors to help him open clubs in other areas. Kat made the initial call, telling him that she was the assistant to a possible investor who was only in town for a day and who would very much like to meet with him. James offered to have her come to his offices, of course, but neither Kat nor Alyssa thought that prudent.
