Technically, her week wasn’t almost over. She still had Friday to get through, and the Taste-of-Poland Polish businesswomen’s booth to staff on Saturday, but she was nearly at the week’s symbolic end. And Monday was Labor Day, so the studio was closed and she had an actual two-day weekend. Nothing about the week had been particularly bad, but nothing had been good, either. She’d kissed Miles goodbye on Tuesday morning after sharing toast and black coffee, then not seen him since. “Working on a big proposal” was his response to her text after she’d even gone to the trouble to get milk from the store so she’d have something to put in her coffee for mornings-after, when her first cup wasn’t from a coffee shop. Milk in her fridge wasn’t clearing out a drawer for him to use, but it was a symbolic leap just the same. There had been no word from Ashley. Almost two full weeks since Renia had posted a letter to her daughter and no response.
